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TABLE 20
PERINATAL COMPLICATIONS IN LIVE BIRTHS
BY LOCAL HEALTH AREA
British Columbia, 1996-2000 AND 2001

FIGURE 14
PERINATAL COMPLICATIONS IN LIVE BIRTHS
BY LOCAL HEALTH AREA
British Columbia, 1996-2000

• Of the 13 Local Health Areas (LHAs) with the statistically significant and high perinatal complication ratios in 2001 (number of births in parentheses), the five highest ratios were:
  

  001	Fernie	1.51	(61)
  069	Qualicum	1.49	(121)
  053	Upper Skeena	1.47	(40)
  068	Nanaimo	1.46	(398)
  027	Cariboo-Chilcotin	1.41	(147)

• All above LHAs except for Fernie also had statistically significant and high ratios for the 1996-2000 period.

• There were nine LHAs with statistically significant and low perinatal complication ratios in 2001. The lowest six ratios (number of births in parentheses) were:
  

  081	Fort Nelson	0.45	(12)
  038	Richmond	0.76	(407)
  163	Vancouver North East	0.76	(284)
  037	Delta	0.82	(258)
  036	Surrey	0.86	(1,382)
  166	Vancouver South	0.86	(353)

• All of the above LHAs also had statistically significant and low ratios for 1996-2000.

• There were 27 LHAs with statistically significant and high perinatal complication ratios in 1996-2000. The five LHAs with the highest ratios that were statistically significant (number of births in parentheses) were:
  

  018	Golden	1.43	(176)
  027	Cariboo-Chilcotin	1.39	(843)
  029	Lillooet	1.39	(151)
  068	Nanaimo	1.34	(1,917)
  069	Qualicum	1.28	(558)

• There were 11 LHAs with statistically significant and low perinatal complication ratios in 1996-2000. The six LHAs with the lowest ratios that were statistically significant (number of births in parentheses) were:
  

  081	Fort Nelson	0.70	(122)
  036	Surrey	0.84	(6,860)
  038	Richmond	0.86	(2,281)
  060	Peace River North	0.87	(684)
  163	Vancouver North East	0.87	(1,722)
  166	Vancouver South	0.87	(1,968)