"Injury is a significant health issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of all ages with rates of injury for specific causes many times that of other Australians." The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has just released a report for the years 2011-13 and found that the most common specific cause of injury among Indigenous children and young people during that time was a fall (24%).
Assault was the leading cause of hospitalisation for Indigenous people aged 15-17 and 18-24 years, with the rate of assault injury among Indigenous children and young people being 6 times higher than that of other Australians. The hospitalisation rate for Indigenous infants aged less than 12 months was over 8 times the rate for other Australian infants. In remote and very remote areas over half (51%) of the children and young people hospitalised due to injury were Indigenous, and this trend became more pronounced the older the children.
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