Providing a summary of injury prevention evidence together in one location, the Evidence Bank aims to increase the awareness of reliable, accurate and authoritative injury-related research pieces.
Utilising the menu below you are able to search the Evidence Bank by injury topics, keywords and primary target audience. Please note that the primary target audience refers to the segmented group which the evidence is aiming to have the greatest influence on.
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| Year | Injury topic/s | Primary target audience | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Intentional self-harm | Aboriginal Communities | Wright, M., Lin, A., O’Connell, M., Bullen, J. & Flavell, H. Understanding and working with different worldviews to co-design cultural security in clinical mental health settings to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients. Prim Health Care Res Dev 22, e59 (2021). Access from: https://www.cambridge.org.au |
| 2021 | Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Poisoning, Transport | Early Years (0 – 8 years), Middle Years (9 – 14 years) | Peck, B. & Terry, D. The Kids Are Alright: Outcome of a Safety Programme for Addressing Childhood Injury in Australia. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 11, 546–556 (2021). Access from: https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/11/2/39/htm |
| 2021 | Intentional self-harm | Whole Community | Bhoyroo, R. et al. Life in a time of COVID: a mixed method study of the changes in lifestyle, mental and psychosocial health during and after lockdown in Western Australians. BMC Public Health 21, 1947 (2021). Access from: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11971-7 |
| 2021 | Falls | Whole Community | Buzzacott, P. et al. Fall from standing height, or greater, and mortality among ambulance-transported patients with major trauma from falls. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine 18, (2021). Access from: https://ajp.paramedics.org/index.php/ajp/article/view/904 |
| 2021 | Falls | Older Adults (65 years and over) | Iuliano, S. et al. Effect of dietary sources of calcium and protein on hip fractures and falls in older adults in residential care: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 375, n2364 (2021). Access from: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2364 |
| 2021 | Alcohol-related harm | Young People (15 – 25 years) | Slade, T. et al. The long-term effectiveness of universal, selective and combined prevention for alcohol use during adolescence: 36-month outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial. Addiction 116, 514–524 (2021). Access from: |
| 2021 | Intentional self-harm | Older Adults (65 years and over) | Chung, S., Kim, M., Auh, E. Y. Y. & Park, N. S. S. WHO’s Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide: Its Implications of a Discussion on Social Exclusion among Older Adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, 8027 (2021). Access from: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/15/8027 |
| 2021 | Violence | Middle Years (9 – 14 years), Young People (15 – 25 years) | Loney-Howes, R., Macphail, C., Hanley, N. & Fabrianesi, B. Youth attitudes to domestic and family violence: a scoping review of young people’s attitudes and perceptions in Australia. Trauma violence and abuse ePub, ePub (2021). Access from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380211036054 |
| 2021 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Aboriginal Communities, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Early Years (0 – 8 years), Health Professionals, Middle Years (9 – 14 years), Older Adults (65 years and over), Regional / Remote Communities, Whole Community, Young People (15 – 25 years) | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian Burden of Disease Study 2018: Key findings. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/burden-of-disease/burden-of-disease-study-2018-key-findings (2021). |
| 2021 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | Australian Insitute of Health and Welfare. Disease expenditure in Australia 2018-19. https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/9ce5ae2a-f574-4089-8d52-158abb4bdb09/Disease-expenditure-in-Australia-2018-19.pdf.aspx?inline=true (2021). |