Burns and scalds

James Harrison
Danielle Steel

October 2006
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Canberra
AIHW cat. no. INJCAT 92

This briefing describes hospitalised burn injuries in Australia during the five years to 30 June 2004. It focuses on the external causes of injury, considering several population groups at special risk of this type of injury. A succinct literature review relates the data findings to other research, and considers burns first-aid.

The report is available as a PDF document (~ 210 Kb).

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