@article{ref1,
title="Closing the Aboriginal child injury gap: targets for injury prevention",
journal="Australian and New Zealand journal of public health",
year="2016",
author="Möller, Holger and Falster, Kathleen and Ivers, Rebecca and Falster, Michael O. and Clapham, Kathleen and Jorm, Louisa",
volume="41",
number="1",
pages="8-14",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To describe the leading mechanisms of hospitalised unintentional injury in Australian Aboriginal children and identify the injury mechanisms with the largest inequalities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. <br><br>METHODS: We used linked hospital and mortality data to construct a whole of population birth cohort including 1,124,717 children (1,088,645 non-Aboriginal and 35,749 Aboriginal) born in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, between 1 July 2000 and 31 December 2012. Injury hospitalisation rates were calculated per person years at risk for injury mechanisms coded according to the ICD10-AM classification. <br><br>RESULTS: The leading injury mechanisms in both groups of children were falls from playground equipment. For 66 of the 69 injury mechanisms studied, Aboriginal children had a higher rate of hospitalisation compared with non-Aboriginal children. The largest relative inequalities were observed for injuries due to exposure to fire and flame, and the largest absolute inequalities for injuries due to falls from playground equipment. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Aboriginal children in NSW experience a significant higher burden of unintentional injury compared with their non-Aboriginal counterparts. Implications for Public Health: We suggest the implementation of targeted injury prevention measures aimed at injury mechanism and age groups identified in this study.<br><br>© 2016 Public Health Association of Australia.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1326-0200",
doi="10.1111/1753-6405.12591",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12591"
}