Providing a summary of injury prevention evidence together in one location, the Evidence Bank aims to increase the awareness of reliable, accurate and authoritative injury-related research pieces.
Utilising the menu below you are able to search the Evidence Bank by injury topics, keywords and primary target audience. Please note that the primary target audience refers to the segmented group which the evidence is aiming to have the greatest influence on.
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| Year | Injury topic/s | Primary target audience | Reference |
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| 2023 | Whole Community | Coates, L. et al. Heatwave fatalities in Australia, 2001–2018: An analysis of coronial records. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 67, 102671 (2022). Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420921006324 |
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| 2023 | Falls | Whole Community | East Metropolitan Health Service. Admissions to Royal Perth Hospital with horse-related injuries. https://www.injurymatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RoyalPerthHospital_Horse-relatedInjuryReport.pdf (2023). |
| 2023 | Transport | Whole Community | East Metropolitan Health Service. Admissions to Royal Perth Hospital from pedal cycle injuries. https://www.injurymatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RoyalPerthHospital_PedalCycleInjuryReport.pdf (2023). |
| 2023 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | East Metropolitan Health Service. Admissions to hospital from farm injury. https://www.injurymatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RoyalPerthHospital_FarmInjuryReport.pdf (2023). |
| 2023 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | East Metropolitan Health Service. International Visitors admitted to RPH following road trauma 2013 to 2022. https://www.injurymatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RoyalPerthHospital_InternationalVisitorsRoadTraumaReport.pdf (2023). |
| 2023 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | East Metropolitan Health Service. International visitors trauma admissions to Royal Perth Hospital since 2013. https://www.injurymatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RoyalPerthHospital_InternationalVisitorsGeneralTraumaReport.pdf (2023). |
| 2023 | Falls | Older Adults (65 years and over) | Maresova, P. et al. Challenges and opportunity in mobility among older adults – key determinant identification. BMC geriatrics 23, e447 (2023). Available from: https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_762328_30 |
| 2023 | Falls | Whole Community | van der Velde, N. et al. European position paper on polypharmacy and fall-risk-increasing drugs recommendations in the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management: implications and implementation. Eur Geriatr Med (2023) doi:10.1007/s41999-023-00824-8. Available from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41999-023-00824-8 |
| 2023 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | AIHW. Injury in Australia. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/injury/injury-in-australia/contents/introduction (2023). |
| 2023 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | Zhang, Y. et al. Neighborhood infrastructure-related risk factors and non-communicable diseases: a systematic meta-review. Environmental Health 22, 2 (2023). Available from: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-022-00955-8 |