• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework
    • Australian Mesothelioma Registry
    • GEN Aged Care Data
    • Housing data
    • Indigenous Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse
    • Metadata Online Registry (METEOR)
    • Regional Insights for Indigenous Communities
  • Contact us
  • Help & tools
  • Increase text size
  • Decrease text size
Home - Australian Government - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - logo AIHW - logo
  • Home
  • COVID-19
    COVID-19
  • Reports & data Use down arrow to expand
    Reports & data

    Find reports & data by topic

    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • Q
    • R
    • S
    • T
    • U
    • V
    • W
    • X
    • Y
    • Z
    See all topics
    • Latest releases
    • Educational resources

    Featured

    • Australia's health
    • Australia's health performance
    • Australia's welfare
    • COVID-19 linked data
    • Hospitals
    • Mental health
    • Indigenous Australians
    • Suicide & self-harm monitoring
    • Australia’s Disability Strategy
    • Australian Centre for Monitoring Population Health
  • Our services Use down arrow to expand
    Our services
    • Data linkage
    • Metadata support
    • Secure Remote Access Environment (SRAE)
    • Validata
    • Ethical (HREC) review
  • About our data Use down arrow to expand
    About our data
    • Our data collections
    • AIHW data by geography
    • AIHW data by indicators
    • AIHW data by sex and gender
    • Accessing data through the AIHW
    • Data governance
    • Other government data
  • News & media Use down arrow to expand
    News & media
    • Podcasts
    • Latest news & events
    • Media releases
    • For the media
    • Subscribe to release notices
    • Forthcoming releases
  • About us Use down arrow to expand
    About us
    • Our role & strategic goals
    • Our people & structure
    • Our governance
    • Our committees
    • Our impact
    • Corporate publications
    • Privacy
    • Our international role
    • Submissions to inquiries
    • Freedom of Information
    • Public interest disclosure
    • Gifts & benefits register
    • Tenders
    • Careers
    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework
    • Australian Mesothelioma Registry
    • GEN Aged Care Data
    • Housing data
    • Indigenous Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Clearinghouse
    • Metadata Online Registry (METEOR)
    • Regional Insights for Indigenous Communities
  • Contact us
  • Help & tools
  • Increase text size
  • Decrease text size
You are here: Home Reports & data Injury Injury in Australia
Go to Injury
Share via email

Injury in Australia

Web report
Last updated: 25 Nov 2022
Topic: Injury
Media release

Citation

AIHW

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) Injury in Australia, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 30 March 2023.

APA

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022). Injury in Australia. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/injury-in-australia

MLA

Injury in Australia. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 25 November 2022, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/injury-in-australia

Vancouver

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Injury in Australia [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2022 [cited 2023 Mar. 30]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/injury-in-australia

Harvard

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2022, Injury in Australia, viewed 30 March 2023, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/injury-in-australia

Get citations as an Endnote file: Endnote

PDF | 1.7Mb

Save web report
 
Show navigation
Skip to page content
Back to topic
  • Contents

    • About
    • Injury overview
    • Causes
    • Seasonal differences
    • Technical notes
    • Acknowledgments
  • Data
  • Notes

Causes

The following articles each focus on a major cause of injury hospitalisation or death in Australia.

Unintentional causes

  • Accidental poisoning
  • Choking and suffocation
  • Contact with living things
  • Contact with objects
  • Drowning and submersion
  • Electricity and air pressure
  • Falls
  • Forces of nature
  • Other unintentional causes
  • Overexertion
  • Thermal causes
  • Transport accidents
Intentional causes

  • Assault and homicide
  • Intentional self-harm and suicide
Undetermined intent

  • Undetermined intent
Previous page
Next page

Last updated 11/11/2022 v52.0

AIHW

  • About us
  • Our committees
  • Our governance
  • Our reports
  • Our data
  • News & media

Using AIHW

  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Disclaimer
  • Freedom of Information
  • Indexed list of files
  • Privacy
  • Site map

Quick links

  • Home
  • Careers
  • AIHW Ethics Committee
  • Our data collections
  • Data on request
  • Data linkage
  • Login

Connect with us

Follow AIHW on Twitter Connect with AIHW on LinkedIn Visit AIHW on YouTube

© Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2023

Creative Commons
Close

Feedback

We'd love to know any feedback that you have about the AIHW website, its contents or reports.

Required fields

The browser you are using to browse this website is outdated and some features may not display properly or be accessible to you. Please use a more recent browser for the best user experience.