NISU General Reports
NISU Publications, General Reports
NISU publishes injury surveillance development reports. Typically, these review the state of
information about an injury topic, assess the demand for improvements and the feasibility of
achieving them, and propose means for implementation. We also publish occasional reports on other
topics.
Some of the reports listed below contain information which is time consuming to reproduce for
publication on the World Wide Web. In some cases, an Executive Summary is provided - in others,
just an abstract is provided. The full report will be made available as time permits - if you feel
a particular report needs early attention, please send an email to NISU.
Coronial Information Systems: Needs And Feasibility
Study. December 1994.
NISU has undertaken a feasibility study for the development of a National Coronial
Information System. This item contains the report of that feasibility study. It shows that there
is a need to develop a more consistent approach to coronial investigation and the classification
and reporting of findings. It concludes that a NCIS is feasible and desirable and would improve
the effectiveness and efficiency of coroners and the extraction of coronial data. The
recommendations of the report have been accepted by Coroners and major data users. Implementation
planning is continuing. (full report)
A Review of the Needs and Opportunities for the
Surveillance of Spinal Cord Injury. February 1995. Spinal cord injury is uncommon,
but has great impact on the lives of the people who sustain it, and it is very costly. NISU has
published a report on why and how surveillance of spinal cord injury in Australia might be
undertaken. The report was written by Charles Blumer, at the Department of Public Health,
University of Sydney.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Injury-Related
Hositalisations 1991-92 June 1996
The injury patterns among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have not been
well documented on a national basis. While there are difficulties with precision, it has been
possible to identify key issues from hospitalisation data, to supplement our earlier work on deaths
in Bulletin 7. In general rates for indigenous peoples are much higher than for their non
indigenous counterparts. The patterns of injury are also different.
Study of Injury in Five Cape York Communities April 1997
This report covers the documentation of injury in some small remote indigenous
communities on Cape York. It shows how a range of information gathering techniques can provide a
profile of injury that complements existing data sets, identifies areas where under-counting is
likely in those collections, and provides a rich basis for the planning of injury prevention
strategies at the local and regional level.
Motor vehicle exhaust related suicide and self harm in Australia
This paper was prepared for discussion at a joint FORS and AMA meeting on the issue.
It is presented as a discussion paper. Comments or leads to useful and relevant information would
be appreciated by the author.
Burns Report
Needs and Opportunities for Improved Surveillance of Burns, by Peter O'Connor and
Raymond Cripps.
Cost of Injury in Australia
Jerry Moller has used the methods of estimating the costs of injury to Victoria that
were developed by the Monash University Accident Research Centre, and applied these to NISU data
for the whole of Australia. This yielded the average cost of injury by major cause and age
group.
In 1993, NISU was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health to
provide information to help plan the implementation of national goals and targets for injury
prevention and control. The information was published in 1994 as two reports.
Injury in Australia draws on the range of available information to provide an overview
of the occurrence and impact of injury in Australia. Chapters consider injury in particular
settings (transport, residential, non-urban areas, sports, work), from particular hazards (consumer
products), and in terms of the role of human intent (interpersonal violence, suicide and other
self-injury). The limited information available on injury in the Australian Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander communities was presented in another chapter.
The report was prepared by NISU in collaboration with the Monash University Accident Research
Centre. It is available from the Australian Government Publishing Service.
Harrison, James E.; Cripps, Raymond A. Injury in Australia: an epidemiological review.
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. (241 pages) ISBN 0 644 33394 4
The title of the other report, Injury Prevention and Control in Australia: a review of
current programs and activities, indicates its contents. It provides an overview of the
infrastructure, services and programs available (at the time it was written) for the
identification, prevention, and treatment of injury and its long-term consequences. Chapters
address: health promotion, surveillance and research programs; clinical management; rehabilitation
services; and the contributions of sectors other than the health sector to the prevention of
injury.
The report is available from the Australian Government Publishing Service.
Albany, Pam; Kreisfeld, Renate. Injury Prevention and Control in Australia: a review of current
programs and activities. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. (57 pages)
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