Trends in injury deaths, Australia 1999–00 to 2011–12

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Release Date: 25 Oct 2017
Author: AIHW

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This report focuses on trends in deaths due to injury and poisoning that occurred over the period 1999–00 to 2011–12.
The age-standardised rate of injury deaths decreased from 55.4 to 47.2 deaths per 100,000 between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and changed little after that. Rates of injury deaths involving transport injury and homicide declined from 1999–00 to 2009–10, while rates for most other external cause groups fluctuated over this period. Rates for suicide deaths declined from 1999–00 until 2004–05 and remained relatively steady thereafter.
Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were generally at least twice as high as rates for non-Indigenous Australians over the period from 2001–02 to 2011–12.

ISSN: 2205-510X (PDF) 1444-3791 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-76054-159-0
Cat. no: INJCAT 188
Pages: 184

Findings from this report:

The 2 main causes of injury deaths in 2011–12 were unintentional falls (35%; 3,903) and suicide (22%, 2,496)
There were 11,192 injury-related deaths in 2011–12, corresponding to a rate of 46 deaths per 100,000 population
Rates of suicide deaths declined between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and remained relatively steady thereafter
Rates of injury deaths declined from 1999–00 to 2009–10 for transport injury and homicide

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Summary
1 Introduction
- 1.1 Structure of this report
- 1.2 Chapter structure
- 1.3 Methods
2 Overview of injury deaths
- 2.1 What is the profile of injury deaths in 2011–12?
- 2.2 How have injury deaths changed over time?
- 2.3 How have injury deaths varied by age and sex over time?
- 2.4 How has injury varied by remoteness of usual residence over time?
- 2.5 How have injury deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
- 2.6 How have the causes of injury mortality varied over time?
3 Transport crashes
- 3.1 What methods were used?
- 3.2 Overview of transport injury deaths
- 3.3 How many deaths due to unintentional transport injury were there in 2011–12?
- 3.4 How have unintentional transport injury deaths changed over time?
- 3.5 How have unintentional transport injury deaths varied by age and sex?
- 3.6 How have unintentional transport injury deaths varied by remoteness?
- 3.7 How have unintentional transport injury deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
4 Drowning
- 4.1 What methods were used?
- 4.2 Overview of total drowning
- 4.3 How many unintentional drowning deaths were there in 2011–12?
- 4.4 How have unintentional drowning deaths changed over time?
- 4.5 How have unintentional drowning deaths varied by age and sex?
- 4.6 How have unintentional drowning deaths varied by remoteness?
- 4.7 How have unintentional drowning deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
5 Poisoning, pharmaceuticals
- 5.1 What methods were used?
- 5.2 Overview of total poisoning by pharmaceuticals
- 5.3 How many unintentional poisoning deaths involving pharmaceuticals were there in 2011–12?
- 5.4 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving pharmaceuticals changed over time?
- 5.5 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving pharmaceuticals varied by age and sex?
- 5.6 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving pharmaceuticals varied by remoteness?
- 5.7 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving pharmaceuticals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
6 Poisoning, other substances
- 6.1 What methods were used?
- 6.2 Overview of total poisoning deaths involving other substances
- 6.3 How many unintentional poisoning deaths involving other substances were there in 2011–12?
- 6.4 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving other substances changed over time?
- 6.5 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving other substances varied by age and sex?
- 6.6 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving other substances varied by remoteness?
- 6.7 How have unintentional poisoning deaths involving other substances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
7 Falls
- 7.1 What methods were used?
- 7.2 Overview of fall injury deaths
- 7.3 How many unintentional fall injury deaths were there in 2011–12?
- 7.4 How have unintentional fall injury deaths changed over time?
- 7.5 How have unintentional fall injury deaths varied by age and sex?
- 7.6 How have unintentional fall injury deaths varied by remoteness?
- 7.7 How have unintentional fall injury deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
8 Thermal injury
- 8.1 What methods were used?
- 8.2 How many unintentional thermal injury deaths were there in 2011–12?
- 8.3 How have unintentional thermal injury deaths changed over time?
- 8.4 How have unintentional thermal injury deaths varied by age and sex?
- 8.5 How have unintentional thermal injury deaths varied by remoteness?
- 9 Other unintentional injury
- 9.1 What methods were used?
- 9.2 How many other unintentional injury deaths were there in 2011–12?
- 9.3 Overview
- 9.4 Trends for selected mechanisms of injury
10 Suicide deaths
- 10.1 What methods were used?
- 10.2 How many suicides were there in 2011–12?
- 10.3 How have suicides changed over time?
- 10.4 How have suicides varied by age and sex?
- 10.5 How have suicides varied by remoteness?
- 10.6 How have suicides by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
11 Homicide deaths
- 11.1 What methods were used?
- 11.2 How many homicides were there in 2011–12?
- 11.3 How have homicides changed over time?
- 11.4 How have homicides varied by age and sex?
- 11.5 How have homicides varied by remoteness?
- 11.6 How have homicides of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people changed over time?
Appendix A: Data issues
Appendix B: Additional tables
Appendix C: Transport deaths: motor vehicle traffic
Appendix D: Injury death counts by reference year and CODURF release
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