Sepsis in the tropical Top End of Australia's Northern Territory: disease burden and impact on Indigenous Australians

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“sepsis incidence and mortality maps to indicators of colonial practices including residential segregation, economic and marginalization sepsis, and denial of care”

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“In the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia, a remote region with a high proportion of Indigenous peoples, the sepsis incidence for Indigenous people is 40.8/1000 (age‐adjusted), a burden that is nearly 5× greater than other regions of Australia and even outstrips that experienced by any population in the United States and Europe (Davis et al., 2011).”

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“For example, people living in low socioeconomic status (SES) Canadian neighborhoods, experience increased use of physicians' services and hospitalization (suggesting increased need), while Australia Indigenous peoples from low SES isolated regions are more often hospitalized for severe infection than the general population (Davis et al., 2011; Yip et al., 2002).”

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“In Australia, Indigenous populations in remote areas of the Northern Territory account for over 50% of sepsis patients in the region, with under‐triaging implicated in racial disparities in the progression of the condition (Davis et al., 2011; Secombe et al., 2019).”