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The cost of hospitalisation for youth self-harm: differences across age groups, sex, Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations
- Source :
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 55:425-434
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- To report the comparative rates, average length of stay and cost per episode of hospital management for self-harm in three age cohorts: 15–19 years, 20–24 years and 25–29 years; by sex and indigeneity. A secondary data analysis of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) dataset between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2014 inclusive. Cost per episode of hospitalised self-harm and rates by age group, sex and Indigenous status. The rate of hospitalised self-harm among Australian youth was 254.0 per 100,000 population. This rate resulted in an annual cost to the healthcare system of AU$55 million or an average cost per episode of $4649 (95% CI $4488:$4810). Hospitalised self-harm was 21 times higher than the rate of suicide (11,820 episodes of hospitalised self-harm/564 suicides). Indigenous youth had on average a 1.4 times higher rate of hospitalised self-harm and 2.2 times higher rate of suicide than non-Indigenous counterparts. When controlling for age and sex, the average cost per episode was significantly lower for Indigenous youth compared to non-Indigenous youth, estimated marginal means $4538 and $4954, respectively (p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Health (social science)
Adolescent
Social Psychology
Epidemiology
Episode of Care
Population
Poison control
Suicide prevention
Indigenous
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Age Distribution
0302 clinical medicine
Cost of Illness
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Sex Distribution
education
Average cost
education.field_of_study
Australia
Secondary data
Health Care Costs
Length of Stay
030227 psychiatry
Hospitalization
Suicide
Psychiatry and Mental health
Female
Self-Injurious Behavior
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14339285 and 09337954
- Volume :
- 55
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....03d37277d33ac10071ab86fa43edec9e