Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17
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Topic: Injury
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 28 September 2023.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17. AIHW, 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report focuses on trends in injury deaths that occurred over the period 1999–00 to 2016–17. The age-standardised rate of injury deaths decreased from 55.4 to 47.2 deaths per 100,000 between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and has changed little after that. Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were generally at least twice as high as rates for non-Indigenous Australians over the period from 2001–02 to 2016–17.
Also see Injury in Australia for more recent trends data.
- ISSN: 2205-510X
- ISBN: 978 1 76054 650 2
- Cat. no: INJCAT 207
- Pages: 132
Findings from this report:
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There were 13,144 injury-related deaths in 2016–17, corresponding to a rate of 48 deaths per 100,000 population
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The 2 main causes of injury deaths in 2016–17 were unintentional falls (38%) and suicide (23%)
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The rate of injury deaths declined between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and remained relatively steady thereafter
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Rates of injury death increased with socioeconomic disadvantage