Posts Tagged ‘injury’
By Injury Matters • October 14th, 2020
Royal Perth Hospital have released five new reports, providing insight into the prevalence of preventable injury-related hospitalisations in Western Australia. The recently released reports cover injuries relating to; Workplaces, Road trauma, Horses, Dog bites, and Alcohol and Other Drugs. The reports highlight the number of injury-related admissions to Royal Perth Hospital in the ten-year periodmore…
Filed under: Tags: Accident, Alcohol, Dog Bite, drugs, health promotion, Horse Accident, injury, Injury Prevention, road safety, Road Trauma, Workplace
Dog Bites, Farm Safety, Horses, Road trauma, Uncategorized, Workplace
By Injury Matters • September 9th, 2020
The Injury Matters Injury Prevention Network (IPN) is a group of WA injury prevention professionals who meet four times a year on a Friday morning to share knowledge and information about upcoming projects. Members work across a variety of injury topics and come from a range of organisation types. Our last meeting was held onmore…
Filed under: Tags: Burns, Childhood Injury, Drowning Prevention, falls, injury, Injury Prevention, Mental Health, Networking, Prevention, WA
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By Injury Matters • August 6th, 2020
Unfortunately, more Western Australian children died due to an injury than cancer, asthma and infectious diseases combined between 2011 and 2015. Injuries are a leading cause of hospitalisation amongst children, with 40,015 children hospitalised due to an injury in WA between 2011 and 2015. Falls, mechanical forces and transport incidents contributed to the highest proportionmore…
Filed under: Tags: Childhood Injury, drowning, falls, injury, Kidsafe, Regional, Self harm, WA
Blog, Child safety, Uncategorized
By Injury Matters • June 30th, 2020
The Epidemiology Branch of the WA Department of Health and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) recently conducted the Western Australian Burden of Disease Study 2015 to provide an assessment of the impact of diseases, injuries and risk factors for the whole population, health regions and the Aboriginal population. Utilising several data collections,more…
Filed under: Tags: AIHW, burdenofdisease, injury, suicide, WA
Blog, Suicide and self-harm
By Injury Matters • May 20th, 2020
Sport is a setting which can attract lots of injuries, however it is often overlooked as a public health issue or a priority setting for injury prevention. Sports injuries frequently lead to hospital admittance, as captured in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) recent report, Hospitalised Sports Injury in Australia, 2016-17. Drmore…
Filed under: Tags: AIHW, injury, Injury Prevention, Prevention, Public Health, Sports, Sports Injury
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