Sub-populations of women
The risk of injury changes as women age and transition through different developmental stages (Hart, 2023). Some groups of women are injured at disproportionately higher rates and often more severely than others. Women aged 65 years and over, First Nations women, women living in remote areas, and women living in the most disadvantaged socioeconomic areas of Australia have higher rates of injury hospitalisations and deaths.
Additional groups of women at risk of higher injury rates, whose identification is currently unresolved in the available unlinked hospitals, ED, deaths, or population data, includes those:
- experiencing homelessness
- living with disability or mental health conditions
- who are refugees and humanitarian entrants
- working in high-risk occupations such as sex work.
Hart DA (2023). Sex differences in musculoskeletal injury and disease risks across the lifespan: Are there unique subsets of female at higher risk than males for these conditions at distinct stages of the life cycle? Frontier in Physiology, 14, doi:10.3389/fphys.2023.1127689, accessed 21 November 2024.