58 Until the early childhood health and developmental inequalities are reduced, it is most likely that the education outcomes and life prospects of many Aboriginal children will remain poor.
In all developmental stages large inequalities between west and east are observed.
To examine socioeconomic inequalities in developmental vulnerability we computed the slope index of inequality (SII).
For males and females, the smallest levels of inequality and developmental vulnerability are found in New South Wales and Tasmania whereas the largest inequalities and highest levels of developmental vulnerability are found in Western Australia and Queensland.
For each outcome, we will build models separately for Aboriginal children and for all children, in which the Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal outcome ratio/difference will represent inequality in developmental outcomes.
The findings have important implications in understanding how early life environment may create inequalities in developmental health.
As our primary interest was to investigate jurisdictional and socioeconomic inequality of child developmental vulnerability we utilised two nested fixed-effects logistic regression models.
New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria appear to have the most comprehensive universal early years' service coverage and in two of these three states (New South Wales and Tasmania) the level of inequality in child developmental vulnerability is the smallest.
This micropolicy brings inequality in access to developmental opportunities and education resources, causing adaptation-induced disadvantages, institutional neglect, and institutional elimination at entrance exams.
Social determinants of health play an important role in determining inequalities both in the developmental phase of life [ 3, 4] and in adulthood.
