{"id":1542,"date":"2015-04-11T01:16:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2015-04-11T01:16:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:16:57","slug":"injury-prevention-and-indigenous-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2015\/04\/11\/injury-prevention-and-indigenous-australians\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury prevention and Indigenous Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I came across a report which estimated the fatal burden of disease and injury for Indigenous Australians. Included were estimates of the magnitude of the fatal burden\u00a0&#8216;gap&#8217; between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/media-release-detail\/?id=60129550721\">Burden of Disease Study: Fatal burden of disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010 <\/a><\/em>report includes fatal burden calculations in terms of years of life lost (YLL). Noteworthy findings include<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Injuries <\/strong>and cardiovascular diseases\u00a0contributed the most fatal burden for Indigenous Australians (22% and 21% respectively), followed by cancer (17%), infant and congenital conditions\u00a0(10%), gastrointestinal diseases\u00a0(6%) and endocrine disorders\u00a0(which includes diabetes) (5%). These disease groups accounted for 82% of all Indigenous YLL in 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Deaths in infants contributed the most to Indigenous YLL. The fatal burden in Indigenous infants was largely due to infant and congenital conditions, which includes causes such as pre-term birth complications, birth trauma and congenital defects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8216;Injuries\u00a0<\/strong>were the leading cause of fatal burden among Indigenous persons aged 1- 34, after which cardiovascular diseases\u00a0and cancer\u00a0were most prominent,&#8217; said Australian Institute of Health and Welfare spokesperson Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>YLL rates for <strong>injuries\u00a0<\/strong>and cardiovascular diseases\u00a0were almost 3 times as high in the Indigenous population.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Clearly we need to reduce the injury-related burden for all persons, and for indigenous persons in particular. It is important that we\u00a0use this information to more forward to achieve that outcome &#8211; but, just how do we do this? What are the next steps? How do we start the ball rolling, and then maintain its momentum? I would argue that this is the greatest challenge facing injury prevention researchers and practitioners around the world.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I came across a report which estimated the fatal burden of disease and injury for Indigenous Australians. Included were estimates of the magnitude of the fatal burden\u00a0&#8216;gap&#8217; between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. 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