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RESEARCH ARTICLE

11. Birth defects

Barbara Bejuk and Lee Taylor

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin Supplementary Series 20(1) 138 - 147
Published: 15 April 2009

Abstract

Between 2000 and 2004, the reported proportion of infants with birth defects has remained stable at about 2 per cent, with a slight decline in 2005 to 1.8 per cent (Table 145). In 2006, 792 cases of birth defects detected during pregnancy or at birth were reported.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB09S13

© NSW Department of Health 2009

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