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RESEARCH ARTICLE

11. Injury

Michael Giffin, Louisa Jorm, Lee Taylor and Margaret Thomas

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin Supplementary Series 15(2) 55 - 61
Published: 2004

Abstract

Injuries are common in young people. In 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health Survey found that 18 per cent of young people aged 12?24 years in Australia had experienced some sort of injury in the previous 4 weeks. Injury is also the leading cause of hospitalisation and death among young people in Australia. While there is extensive information on injuries that are serious enough to result in hospitalisation or death in young people, there is little information on injuries that are less severe but may occur more commonly.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB04S28

© NSW Department of Health 2004

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