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 | Falls | Older Adults (65 years and over) | Delbaere, K. et al. E-health StandingTall balance exercise for fall prevention in older people: results of a two year randomised controlled trial. BMJ n740 (2021) doi:10.1136/bmj.n740. Available from: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n740 |
| 2021 | Intentional self-harm | Aboriginal Communities | Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council. National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Mental Health and Social and Emotional Wellbeing 2017-2023. (Dept. of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2017). Available from: https://pmc.gov.au/resource-centre/indigenous-affairs/national-strategic-framework-mental-health-social-emotional-wellbeing-2017-23 |
| 2021 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Aboriginal Communities | Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2020. (2021) Available from: https://healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/learn/health-facts/ overview-aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-health-status |
| 2021 | Falls | Health Professionals | Ang, S. G. M., O’Brien, A. P. & Wilson, A. Understanding carers’ fall concern and their management of fall risk among older people at home. BMC Geriatr 19, 144 (2019). Available from: https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-019-1162-7 |
| 2021 | Burns and Scalds | Whole Community | Randall, S. M., Wood, F. M., Rea, S., Boyd, J. H. & Duke, J. M. An Australian study of long-term hospital admissions and costs comparing patients with unintentional burns and uninjured people. Burns 46, 199–206 (2020). Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31859084/ |
| 2021 | Falls | Older Adults (65 years and over), Whole Community | World Health Organization. Step safely: strategies for preventing and managing falls across the life-course (2021). Available from: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/340962/9789240021914-eng.pdf |
| 2021 | Alcohol-related harm | Whole Community | Senate Community Affairs References Committee. Effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and support for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. (2021). Available from: https://aodknowledgecentre.ecu.edu.au/healthinfonet/getContent.php?linkid=660486&title=Effective+approaches+to+prevention%2C+diagnosis+and+support+for+Fetal+Alcohol+Spectrum+Disorder&contentid=42741_1 |
| 2021 | Alcohol-related harm | Whole Community | Andreasson, S. et al. Alcohol and Society 2021: Alcohol and the coronavirus pandemic: individual, societal and policy perspectives. Available from: https://movendi.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Alcohol-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic_Alcohol-and-society-2021_report_en.pdf (2021). |
| 2021 | Intentional self-harm | Aboriginal Communities, Regional / Remote Communities | McHugh, C., Campbell, A., Chapman, M. & Balaratnasingam, S. Increasing Indigenous self-harm and suicide in the Kimberley: an audit of the 2005–2014 data. Med. J. Aust. 205, 33 (2016). Available from: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2016/205/1/increasing-indigenous-self-harm-and-suicide-kimberley-audit-2005-2014-data |
| 2021 | Alcohol-related harm, Burns and Scalds, Drowning, Falls, Intentional self-harm, Poisoning, Transport, Violence | Whole Community | Hendrie D, Miller T, Randall S, Brameld K, Moorin R. Incidence and costs of injury in WA 2012. Perth: Chronic Disease Prevention Directorate Department of Health WA; |