- Title
- Trends in hospitalised sport/leisure injuries in New South Wales, Australia-Implications for the targetting of population-focussed preventive sports medicine efforts
- Creator
- Finch, Caroline; Mitchell, Rebecca; Boufous, Soufiane
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/38051
- Identifier
- vital:5467
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2010.03.009
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-2440
- Abstract
- Sport/leisure injuries are a population health issue in Australia. Over 2003-2004 to 2007-2008, the rate of sport/leisure injury NSW hospitalisations was 195.5/100,000 residents. Males and children/young people had consistently highest rates of hospitalisation. There was no significant decline in rates over this period and no change in the profiles of the types of sport/leisure injuries. The extent to which effective preventive programs have been developed and implemented needs to be determined as current programs do not seem to be impacting on hospitalisation rates. Medical/health promotion agencies and sports bodies need to jointly formulate and implement policies to reduce sport/leisure injuries. This is one of the most significant challenges facing sports medicine professionals today.
- Relation
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 14, no. 1 (January 2011), p. 15-21; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
- Rights
- © Copyright Agency Limited
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Sports injury; Injury hospitalisations; Injury prevention; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 1117 Public Health and Health Services
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