Child injuries due to falls

Malinda Steenkamp, Raymond Cripps

2001
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Canberra
AIHW cat. no. INJCAT 37

This is a statistical report on fall-related injury among children aged 0-14 years. It describes the epidemiology of childhood falls resulting in death and hospital admission, as well as the profile of cases seen at emergency departments in a large number of Victorian hospitals. The report discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the three data sources used in regard to injury surveillance of fall-related injury among children. It also highlights the impact of the transition to ICD-10(-AM).

It will be relevant to those interested in childhood injury, including community practitioners, health planners and administrators, academic researchers and the public.
The report is available here as a PDF document (~ 800 Kb).

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