The AIPN are pleased to announce you now have more time to prepare and submit an abstract for the premier injury prevention conference for Australia and the Asia Pacific, the 12th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference. Abstracts are now being accepted until Wednesday 13 May 2015 for this years event, so use the…
Around 186 300 children under 18 years die from road traffic crashes annually, and rates of road traffic death among children are three times higher in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. A newly published World Health Organization (WHO) document, Ten strategies for keeping children safe on the road, draws attention to the…
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has identified injury as a leading cause of premature death amongst Indigenous Australians, particularly amongst those aged 1-34 years of age. “The Australasian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN) acknowledges this report, which shows that there are clear differences between the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia,…