Posts Tagged ‘WA’
By Injury Matters • October 5th, 2020
The 2021 Injury Matters Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Awards recognise individuals and organisations who are having a positive impact on the community by conducting activities that aim to prevent and reduce the impact of injury within Western Australia. Applications for the Awards are open until Friday the 8th January 2021 and are encouraged frommore…
Filed under: Tags: Awards, Awards Breakfast, Celebration, Community, Community Safety, Excellence, health promotion, Injury Prevention, Prevention, Safety, Safety Promotion, WA, Western Australia
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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
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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