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Hospitalised farm injury among children and young people, Australia 2000–01 to 2004–05
AIHW, Harrison JE, Henley G (2018) Hospitalised farm injury, Australia: 2010–11 to 2014–15, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 25 October 2024.
AIHW, Harrison JE, Henley G. (2018). Hospitalised farm injury, Australia: 2010–11 to 2014–15. Canberra: AIHW.
AIHW, Harrison JE, Henley G. Hospitalised farm injury, Australia: 2010–11 to 2014–15. AIHW, 2018.
AIHW, Harrison JE, Henley G. Hospitalised farm injury, Australia: 2010–11 to 2014–15. Canberra: AIHW; 2018.
AIHW, Harrison JE, Henley G 2018, Hospitalised farm injury, Australia: 2010–11 to 2014–15, AIHW, Canberra.
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Almost 22,000 people were hospitalised in the period from 2010–11 to 2014–15 as a result of injury which occurred on a farm; over three-quarters of them (77%) were males. Just over 71% of people hospitalised as a result of farm-related injury resided in Inner Regional and Outer regional remoteness zones. Injuries involving motorcycles and quad bikes accounted for 42% of hospitalisations in children aged 0–14 and 21% of hospitalisations in people aged 15 and over.
Almost 22,000 people were hospitalised in the period 2010–11 to 2014–15 as a result of injury which occurred on a farm
Injuries involving motorcycles and quad bikes accounted for nearly 42% of hospitalisations in children aged 0–14
Injuries involving motorcycles and quad bikes accounted for 21% of hospitalisations in people aged 15 and over
Injuries involving horses accounted for 16% of hospitalisations in children aged 0–14, 80% of which involved girls
Hospitalised farm injury among children and young people, Australia 2000–01 to 2004–05