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Electrical injury and death
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Topic: Injury
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2007) Electrical injury and death, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 03 November 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2007). Electrical injury and death. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Electrical injury and death. AIHW, 2007.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Electrical injury and death. Canberra: AIHW; 2007.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2007, Electrical injury and death, AIHW, Canberra.
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This Briefing provides an overview of hospitalisations and deaths occurring as a result of electrical injury or exposure to lightning. Serious electrical injuries are relatively infrequent and injuries occurring as a result of lightning are extremely rare events. Over the two year period 2002-03 to 2003-04 only 1,493 people were hospitalised as a result of an electrical injury at an age-adjusted rate of 3.78 cases per 100,000 population. Deaths occurring as a result of electrical injury or lightning are even rarer with 162 cases in the four years examined (2001-04).
- ISSN: 1833-024X
- Cat. no: INJ 99
- Pages: 15