Technical review and documentation of current NHPA injury indicators and data sources

James Harrison
Malinda Steenkamp

2002
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Canberra
AIHW cat. no. INJCAT 47

This report provides an improved technical basis for reporting indicators of injury occurrence in Australia. The current set of National Health Priority Areas (NHPA) injury indicators has been documented thoroughly, to enable them to be reported without ambiguity concerning which cases should be included, calculation methods, or other technical considerations. In addition, the precise purposes of the indicators have been reviewed, and a set of revisions to the technical specification of the indicators has been proposed, in order to improve the capacity of the indicators to serve these purposes. The technically revised specification is designed to provide more valid monitoring of trends in the population incidence of serious injury in Australia.

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