Trends in hospitalised childhood injury in Australia 1999-07 is a report just released by the AIHW providing summary data on trends in three age groups: 0-4, 5-9 and 10-14 for each year of the study. Almost half a million children were hospitalised as a result of an injury during this period, with boys outnumbering girls by 2 to 1.
Falls were the main cause of hospitalised injury, and transport-related injuries were also common. The only category where girls outnumbered boys was in intentional self-harm (3,514 girls being hospitalised for this and 837 boys.)
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