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Setting: Home Safety

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.

If you would like a piece of evidence added to the Bank, please click here.

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YearInjury topic/sPrimary target audienceReference
2021ViolenceWhole Community
Parkinson, D. Investigating the Increase in Domestic Violence Post Disaster: An Australian Case Study. J Interpers Violence 34, 2333–2362 (2019). Access from: https://journals.sagepub.com
2021FallsOlder Adults (65 years and over), Whole Community

Sweeney, R. & Meade, R. 2021 Western Australian Falls Report. (2021). Available from:https://www.injurymatters.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021WAFallsReport.pdf

2021Intentional self-harmRegional / Remote Communities
Fitzpatrick, S. J. et al. Suicide in rural Australia: A retrospective study of mental health problems, health-seeking and service utilisation. PLOS ONE 16, e0245271 (2021). Access from: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245271
2021Burns and Scalds, Falls, TransportYoung People (15 – 25 years)
Evans-Whipp, T. & Vassallo, S. Adolescent Injury. Growing Up in Australia Snapshot Series – Issue 3. https://growingupinaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/lsac-snapshot-3-injury.pdf (2021).
2021Intentional self-harm, TransportWhole Community
AIHW. The first year of COVID-19 in Australia: direct and indirect health effects. https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/a69ee08a-857f-412b-b617-a29acb66a475/aihw-phe-287.pdf.aspx?inline=true (2021).
2021ViolenceWhole Community
Brunton, R. & Dryer, R. Sexual violence and Australian women: A longitudinal analysis of psychosocial and behavioral outcomes. Social Science & Medicine 114334 (2021) doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114334. Access from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/
2021ViolenceWhole Community
Negin, J., Bell, J., Ivancic, L., Alpers, P. & Nassar, N. Gun violence in Australia, 2002–2016: a cohort study. Medical Journal of Australia n/a, (2021). Access from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/mja2.51251
2021FallsOlder Adults (65 years and over)
Cattaneo, D. et al. Educational and Exercise Intervention to Prevent Falls and Improve Participation in Subjects With Neurological Conditions: The NEUROFALL Randomized Controlled Trial. Front. Neurol. 10, 865 (2019). Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31572282/
2021DrowningWhole Community
Peden, A. E., Scarr, J.-P. & Mahony, A. J. Analysis of fatal unintentional drowning in Australia 2008–2020: implications for the Australian Water Safety Strategy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (2021). Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1753-6405.13124
2021DrowningCulturally and Linguistically Diverse
Willcox-Pidgeon, S., Franklin, R. C., Leggat, P. A. & Devine, S. Epidemiology of unintentional fatal drowning among migrants in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (2021). Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.13102

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