Fitts, Michelle S., and Clough, Alan R. (2014) A different approach to Indigenous drink driving is needed to incorporate cultural factors in outer regional and remote Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 38 (6). pp. 592-593.

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Abstract

[Extract] We recommend that cultural factors be included in Indigenous-specific drink driving programs. Indigenous Australians experience fatal road crashes at rates 2.8 times higher than the Australian population and rates of serious injuries 1.3 times higher.¹ The majority (70%) of more than 90 fatal road injuries and 60% of around 1,600 serious road injuries per year are suffered by Indigenous Australians resident in 'outer regional', 'remote' and 'very remote' localities.1 Indigenous Australians in these often isolated, socially excluded, discrete populations suffer a disproportionate proportion of the preventable 'health gap' including injury, with injury due to alcohol a main contributor.²

Item ID:	44908
Item Type:	Article (Short Note)
ISSN:	1753-6405
Funders:	National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund (NDLERF), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Projects and Grants:	NHMRC Career Development Fellowship 1046773
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2016 23:34
FoR Codes:	11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health @ 100%
SEO Codes:	92 HEALTH > 9203 Indigenous Health > 920399 Indigenous Health not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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