@article{ref1,
title="Are we closing the Aboriginal child injury gap? A cohort study",
journal="Australian and New Zealand journal of public health",
year="2019",
author="Möller, Holger and Ivers, Rebecca and Clapham, Kathleen and Jorm, Louisa",
volume="43",
number="1",
pages="15-17",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To assess if rates of hospitalised injury in Australian Aboriginal children, and differences in these rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children, have changed over time. <br><br>METHODS: We used linked hospital data for New South Wales (NSW), Australia, to construct cohorts of children born in NSW hospitals between 2003-2007 and 2008-2012. We calculated rates of hospitalised injuries per 10,000 person years for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children for both cohorts, and compared these using rate differences and rate ratios. <br><br>RESULTS: Rates of unintentional injury hospitalisation were similar in Aboriginal children in both cohorts and Aboriginal children had 1.7 times higher rates of unintentional injury hospitalisation compared with non-Aboriginal children. Rate ratios between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children for leading injury mechanisms, burns, poisonings and transport were similar in both cohorts, with 2.5, 3.0 and 2.4 times higher rates in Aboriginal children in the 2008-2012 cohort, respectively. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS and Implications for public health: Our findings suggest that current injury prevention measures have not been successful in reducing either rates of unintentional injury in Aboriginal children, or injury inequalities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. We recommend the implementation of targeted Aboriginal led injury prevention measures.<br><br>© 2019 The Authors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1326-0200",
doi="10.1111/1753-6405.12866",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12866"
}