• Injury · Dec 2008

    Understanding the extent and impact of Indigenous road trauma.

    • Kathleen Clapham, Teresa Senserrick, Rebecca Ivers, Marilyn Lyford, and Mark Stevenson.
    • Woolyungah Indigenous Centre, The University of Wollongong, Australia. kclapham@uow.edu.au
    • Injury. 2008 Dec 1; 39 Suppl 5: S19S23S19-23.

    AbstractWhile transport-related injuries represent a leading cause of death for all Australians, several disparities exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Compared to non-Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to have a transport-related fatal injury, with fatality risk remaining high with age while declining among the non-Indigenous community. Few studies and appropriate databases exist to elucidate the causes and solutions to this over-representation. This paper presents a summary of known risk factors, discusses the impact of road injury at multiple levels and suggests steps towards addressing this significant public health problem.

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