Date: Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEST
Organiser: Austroads
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Information on injurious road crashes is required for prevention. National information on fatal cases has been available for many years, but information on serious non-fatal cases has been lacking.
This webinar will take participants through the outcomes of Stage 2 of an Austroads project commissioned to establish a system to report serious injury cases due to road crashes in a consistent way throughout Australia and over time.
Stage 1 of the project, documented in the Austroads report “A National Approach to Measuring Non-fatal Crash Outcomes”, provided a proof of concept for a national approach to supply routine data on non-fatal hospitalised road injuries for reporting progress against the National Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020 (NRSS) target of a 30 per cent reduction.
Stage 2 of the project aimed to obtain ten years of data from all jurisdictions (2008 to 2017), report against equivalents to the NRSS fatality indicators and analyse characteristics of the data, including matched and unmatched cases, cross-border flows, and the impact of data linkage on estimates. Ethics and data custodian approvals enabled data to be collected from all jurisdictions except Western Australia.
Stage 2 have shown that it is feasible to link crash and hospital data and analyse serious road injuries using a consistent method for seven of eight jurisdictions in Australia. The data can be used to investigate many aspects of serious road injury cases and the crashes in which they occurred.
Webinar presenters Professor James Harrison and Associate Professor Angela Watson will explain the method used in Stage 2 of the project and provide a detailed overview of the project findings.
There will be opportunities for questions and answers at the end of the session.
Professor James Harrison (Flinders University)is an injury epidemiologist and public health physician who is active nationally and internationally in measuring and classifying injury, injury burden, determinants, outcomes in populations and the descriptive epidemiology of injury for public health purposes. His research and publications deal with aspects of injury including road safety, suicide and self-harm, the safety of Indigenous Australians, injury of children and in old age, occupational safety, sports injury, spinal cord injury and the safety of health care. He directs the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Injury Surveillance Unit and led the injury aspect of the 11th revision of the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases.
Associate Professor Angela Watson is a Principal Research Fellow supported by a Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) funded research fellowship at Queensland University of Technology. She is also the Program Lead for the Queensland Government’s cross-agency MAIC funded Road Safety Data Bureau. Angela has worked in road safety for 20 years specialising in data linkage and analysis of large crash, offence, and administrative health data sets.
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