A new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reveals the major causes of injury hospitalisation and deaths, delving deeper into four major areas to identify current trends and changes throughout the past decade.
Falls , transport, assault, and accidental poisoning are among the leading causes of injury-related hospitalisations and deaths in Australia, according to new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data.Injury is a major cause of hospitalisation in Australia, and the leading cause of death for people under 44 years old.
Of the 1.9 million people who presented to emergency departments with injuries in 2022–2023, the majority were men.The number of injury deaths have generally been increasing over time, but there have been drops and fluctuations across ages, regions and causes.Falls have remained the leading cause of injury-related hospitalisation and deaths in Australia over the past decade and across most regions.
And the country's ageing population was leading to an increase in rates of falls hospitalisations, she added.Men were most likely to fall out or through a building or structure, and women from stairs.Thousands of Australians are hurt or die in road and other transport crashes each year, most commonly while in a car, or on a motorcycle or bicycle.But across all types of transport, age groups and sexes, injury rates generally decreased over the past decade.
Dr Ahmed said it was "good news" that overall rates of assault hospitalisations and deaths were going down, but other patterns and trends were stating to emerge. These assaults remained considerably higher in women than men, with women aged 25–44 the most affected.In 2021-2022, people aged 45– 64 had the highest homicide rate of all age groups.Injury hospitalisations and deaths due to accidental poisoning mostly involved pharmaceutical substances.Alcohol was the fourth ranked substance.
Injuries Hospitalisation Australian Institute Of Health And Welfare Report Health Data Assault Falls Transport Car Accident Poisoning Accidental Poisoning
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