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Closing the Aboriginal child injury gap: targets for injury prevention

Holger Möller1, Kathleen Falster1,2,3, Rebecca Ivers4

  • 1Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW Kensington Campus, New South Wales.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
|October 25, 2016
PubMed

Insights

Australian Aboriginal children face higher rates of unintentional injury hospitalisation than non-Aboriginal children. Targeted prevention strategies are needed for specific injury mechanisms and age groups to reduce this health disparity.

Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Paediatric Injury Epidemiology
  • Health Disparities

Background:

  • Unintentional injuries are a significant cause of hospitalisation in children.
  • Understanding injury mechanisms is crucial for effective prevention.
  • Disparities in child injury rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations require investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify leading unintentional injury mechanisms in Australian Aboriginal children.
  • To compare injury rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children.
  • To pinpoint injury mechanisms with the greatest inequalities.

Main Methods:

  • Utilised linked NSW population birth cohort data (2000-2012).
  • Included 1,124,717 children (35,749 Aboriginal).
  • Calculated injury hospitalisation rates using ICD10-AM codes.

Main Results:

  • Falls from playground equipment were the leading mechanism for both groups.
  • Aboriginal children had higher hospitalisation rates for 66 of 69 mechanisms.
  • Largest relative inequalities: fire/flame exposure; largest absolute inequalities: playground falls.

Conclusions:

  • Aboriginal children in NSW bear a disproportionately higher burden of unintentional injury.
  • Significant health inequalities exist in child injury hospitalisation.
  • Public health implications include implementing targeted injury prevention measures.
Abstract

Keywords:
Indigenouschildinjury

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