Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2014–15
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Topic: Injury
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2014–15, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 09 December 2023.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2014–15. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2014–15. AIHW, 2018.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2014–15. Canberra: AIHW; 2018.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2018, Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2014–15, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report focuses on trends in deaths due to injury and poisoning that occurred over the period 1999–00 to 2014–15. 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 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 2014–15.
Also see Injury in Australia for more recent trends data.
- ISSN: 2205-510X (PDF) 1444-3791 (Print)
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-423-2
- Cat. no: INJCAT 192
- Pages: 138
Findings from this report:
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There were 12,647 injury-related deaths in 2014–15, corresponding to a rate of 48 deaths per 100,000 population
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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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The 2 main causes of injury deaths in 2014–15 were unintentional falls (4,718 deaths) and suicide (2,926 deaths)
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Rates of injury deaths declined from 1999–00 to 2014–15 for transport injury, drowning and homicide