The Brimbank Atlas of Health and Education 2Nd Edition
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The Brimbank Atlas of Health and Education 2nd Edition Produced for the Brimbank Collaboration: Victoria University and Brimbank City Council September 2019 PHIDU Brimbank Atlas of Health and Education 2nd Edition Produced for the Brimbank Collaboration: Victoria University and Brimbank City Council by the Public Health Information Development Unit Torrens University Australia September 2019 PHIDU Copyright © Public Health Information Development Unit, Torrens University Australia 2019 This work is subject to copyright, attribution and reproduction rights under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia licence. Material excluded from this licence includes: material protected by a trademark; material owned by third parties, which may include design and layout, images and signatures (we have made all reasonable effort to identify and label material owned by third parties); material containing a separate copyright licence. 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Name of Publisher: Public Health Information Development Unit, Torrens University Contact Name: John Glover Email: [email protected] Publication details Title: The Brimbank Atlas of Health and Education ISBN(s): 978-0-9873911-8-6 : Spiral bound 978-0-9873911-7-9 : ebook - pdf This atlas was produced by the Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU), Torrens University Australia, for the Brimbank Collaboration, a partnership between Victoria University and the Brimbank City Council. Funding support was provided by the Victoria University and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. The views expressed in this atlas are solely those of the authors and ought not to be attributed to the Brimbank Collaboration. Suggested citation Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU). The Brimbank Atlas of Health and Education 2nd Edition. Adelaide: PHIDU, Torrens University Australia, 2019. Cover photo by J Medallada Photography (2013) Printed by Openbook Howden Print and Design ii Contents Page Copyright ............................................................................................................................................................ ii Suggested citation .............................................................................................................................................. ii Contents ............................................................................................................................................................. iii List of tables ........................................................................................................................................................ v List of figures ..................................................................................................................................................... ix List of maps ....................................................................................................................................................... xi Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................ xiii Section 1: Context and purpose ...................................................................................................................... 1 Background to the atlas .................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 A brief profile of Brimbank ............................................................................................................................ 4 Outline of the atlas .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Taking a place-based approach ..................................................................................................................... 6 Aims of the atlas .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Section 2 Indicators of health and wellbeing, and education and child development for Brimbank .. 9 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 11 The value of indicators ................................................................................................................................. 11 Selection and presentation of indicators .................................................................................................... 11 Data gaps and limitations ............................................................................................................................ 12 Interpreting data about an area ................................................................................................................... 12 Age distribution of the population ............................................................................................................. 13 Data sources ................................................................................................................................................... 15 Contextual indicators at the Population Health Area level ....................................................................... 17 Summary measure of socioeconomic disadvantage ................................................................................ 18 Children in jobless families .......................................................................................................................... 20 Children in families with mothers with low educational attainment ................................................... 22 Learning or earning at ages 15 to 24 years ................................................................................................ 24 People recently arrived from countries in which English is not the predominant language ............ 26 Longer term residents born in countries in which English is not the predominant language .......... 28 People born overseas and reporting poor proficiency in English .......................................................... 30 Humanitarian Program arrivals .................................................................................................................. 32 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ............................................................................................ 34 Unemployment .............................................................................................................................................. 36 Unemployed youth ....................................................................................................................................... 38 Female labour force participation ............................................................................................................... 40 People working as managers or professionals .......................................................................................... 42 People working as labourers ....................................................................................................................... 44 iii Social housing ................................................................................................................................................ 46 Low income households under financial stress from rent or mortgage ............................................... 48 Crowding ....................................................................................................................................................... 50 No motor vehicle ........................................................................................................................................... 52 Internet not accessed at home ..................................................................................................................... 54 Electronic gaming machines: player losses ............................................................................................... 56 Voluntary work ............................................................................................................................................. 58 People living with disability ........................................................................................................................ 60 Health and wellbeing, and education and child development indicators at the Population Health Area level .................................................................................................................................................. 63 Low birth weight babies ..............................................................................................................................