- Title
- Rural v metro : Geographical differences in sports injury hospital admissions across Victoria
- Creator
- Shee, Anna Wong; Clapperton, Angela; Finch, Caroline
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Short Report
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99041
- Identifier
- vital:10318
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.5694/mja15.00585
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-729x
- Abstract
- Injury prevention is one of the Australian National Health Priority Areas.1 Injuries requiring medical attention place considerable demands on the health care system and are increasingly being recognised as a significant public health problem.2 Recent statewide data from Victoria show that the public health burden of sports injury, as a particular context for hospitalised injury, has increased significantly in recent times.3,4 Understanding whether sports injury rates vary by geographic regions in Vic would inform better health service delivery to redress identified health inequalities across regions and aid targeting of preventive programs.
- Publisher
- Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Ltd
- Relation
- Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 203, no. 7 (2015), p. 288-288e.1; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1058737
- Rights
- Copyright © 2015 AMPCo Pty Ltd. Produced with Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Caregiver burden; Health service; Hospital admission; Outcome assessment; Public health; Rural area; Sport injury; Urban area
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