dc.contributor.author | Rajshekar, Mithun | |
dc.contributor.author | Blizzard, Leigh | |
dc.contributor.author | Julian, Roberta | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, Anne-Marie | |
dc.contributor.author | Tennant, Marc | |
dc.contributor.author | Forrest, Alex | |
dc.contributor.author | Walsh, Laurence J | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Gary | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-14T04:48:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-14T04:48:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1326-0200 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/1753-6405.12630 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/346474 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objective: To estimate the incidence of dog bite-related injuries requiring public sector hospitalisation in Australia during the period 2001–13.
Methods: Summary data on public sector hospitalisations due to dog bite-related injuries with an ICD 10-AM W54.0 coding were sourced from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for the study period 2001–2013.
Results: In Australia, on average, 2,061 persons were hospitalised each year for treatment for dog bite injuries at an annual rate of 12.39 (95%CI 12.25–12.53) per 100,000 during 2001–13. The highest annual rates of 25.95 (95%CI 25.16–26.72) and 18.42 (95%CI 17.75–19.07) per 100,000 were for age groups 0–4 and 5–9 years respectively. Rates of recorded events increased over the study period and reached 16.15 (95%CI 15.78–16.52) per 100,000 during 2011–13.
Conclusion: Dog bites are a largely unrecognised and growing public health problem in Australia.
Implications for public health: There is an increasing public sector burden of hospitalisations for injuries from dog bites in Australia. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 377 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 380 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 4 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 41 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Health services and systems | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Public health | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Applied economics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Policy and administration | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4203 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4206 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3801 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4407 | |
dc.title | The incidence of public sector hospitalisations due to dog bites in Australia 2001–2013 | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.rights.copyright | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modications or adaptations are made. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Forrest, Alex S. | |
gro.griffith.author | Walsh, Laurence | |