Health system costs of injury, poisoning and musculoskeletal disorders in Australia 1993-94

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Health and welfare expenditure series no. 6

Provides health system cost estimate for specific types of injury, specific external causes of injury including poisoning, and individual musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis. Estimates of the associated numbers of hospital admissions, bed days, non-inpatient services, medical services, drug prescriptions and nursing home residents for 1993-94 accompany this data.

Authored by Mathers C & Penm R.

Published 28 April 1999; ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN-13 978 0 642 39574 0; AIHW cat. no. HWE 12; 91pp.; OUT OF PRINT


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Full publication (325K PDF)

  • Preliminary material (27K PDF)
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Summary
  • Chapters
    1. Introduction (27K PDF)
      1. Background and overview
      2. Uses of disease cost estimates
      3. Methodology
      4. Limitations
    2. Health system costs of injuries and poisoning (65K PDF)
      1. Injury costs by type of injury
      2. Injury costs by external cause
      3. Injury costs and impact
      4. Injury costs by age and sex
      5. Most costly injuries at different ages
    3. Health system costs of musculoskeletal disorders (50K PDF)
      1. Costs for specific musculoskeletal disorders
      2. Costs and impact of musculoskeletal disorders
      3. Musculoskeletal disorder costs by age and sex
  • End matter
    • Glossary (22K PDF)
    • References (7K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Classification of disease and injury (36K PDF)
      • Appendix B: Summary of disease costing methodology (20K PDF)
      • Appendix C: Detailed tables - injury and poisoning, 1993-94 (75K PDF)
      • Appendix D: Detailed tables - musculoskeletal disorders, 1993-94 (65K PDF)

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