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ACCIDENTS IN AUSTRALIA: THE NEED FOR RESEARCH
Author(s) -
Wigglesworth E. C.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb84450.x
Subject(s) - table (database) , work (physics) , differential (mechanical device) , demography , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , distribution (mathematics) , age groups , poison control , psychology , medicine , forensic engineering , environmental health , engineering , computer science , mathematics , sociology , pathology , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , data mining , aerospace engineering
The dominant role of accidents as a major source of morbidity is demonstrated and discussed. An examination is made of occupational and road injuries, and it is shown that: (a) young males aged under 20 years have a road injury rate that is three times the average, but have an occupational injury rate that is only three‐quarters of the average (Table 6); (b) vehicular injuries at work show no skew in the age distribution — that is, there Is no differential involvement of young males (Table 5); (c) males suffer more Injuries than females in absolute terms and pro rata, both at work and on the roads, In every age group (Table 6) and for each category of road‐user except for passengers aged over 30 years (Table 7). It is suggested that differences In quantitative and qualitative exposure constitute only a partial explanation of differential injury involvement, and the presence of some other systematic causal factor is postulated. The implications of this concept are discussed, and the work ends with a description of some problems in which research seems desirable.