Indigenous injury deaths 2011–12 to 2015–16
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Topic: Injury
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Indigenous injury deaths 2011–12 to 2015–16, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 08 December 2023.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Indigenous injury deaths 2011–12 to 2015–16. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Indigenous injury deaths 2011–12 to 2015–16. AIHW, 2020.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Indigenous injury deaths 2011–12 to 2015–16. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, Indigenous injury deaths 2011–12 to 2015–16, AIHW, Canberra.
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Over the 5-year period 2011–12 to 2015–16, 2,145 Indigenous Australians died as the result of an injury—an annual average of 429 deaths. The rate of death for Indigenous males was nearly double that for females. The rate of injury death for Indigenous Australians was nearly twice that of non-Indigenous Australians. The 3 most frequent external causes of death for Indigenous Australians were suicide, transport crashes and unintentional poisoning by pharmaceuticals.
- ISSN: 2209-7112
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-679-3
- Cat. no: INJCAT 210
- Pages: 85
Findings from this report:
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Over the 5-year period, an average of 141 Indigenous Australians per year died as the result of suicide
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Over time, suicide rates for Indigenous females rose by an annual average of 6%
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Over the 5-year period, an annual average of 86 Indigenous Australians died as the result of transport crashes
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An annual average of 60 Indigenous Australians died due to unintentional poisoning by pharmaceuticals