Self Harm

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This report shows the number of suicides by Victorian women presented in a time series (1995 - 2005). Other data for Australian women includes; suicide as a proportion of the total deaths, age-specific suicide rates, suicide rate ratio of males to females, median age at death and method of suicide.  Further Info

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The Victorian Burden of Disease study includes data for Victorian women that details their potential reduced healthy life expectancy (or death) due to self harm. Data is reported by age group and includes; number of deaths, years of life lost (YLL), years lived with a disability (YLD), disability-adjusted life years (DALY) and incidence. The disability weights for conditions is included.  Further Info

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This site provides access to the Burden of Disease estimates search tool allowing users to locate the self harm burden of disease estimates for Victorian women by desired outcome measure and condition. Data is available at the state, regional and/or LGA level and includes life expectancy, disability adjusted life years, years of life lost and years lived with a disability. Access the tool via the 'Search bod estimates' link.  Further Info

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Authors: Clare Bradley and James E Harrison
This report details the hospital separations of Australian women due to intentional injury and poisoning self-harm. It includes the number of hospital separations, mean stay of length in hospital and the percentage of all injury hospital separations for intentional self-harm. Data includes the body region injured, nature of injury diagnosis, method/cause of injury and place of occurrence.  Further Info

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The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) phase 4 (Younger and Mid-age cohorts) includes the percentage of Australian women who have deliberately hurt themselves or done anything that they know may have harmed or killed them in the past 6 months. Data is reported by metropolitan, rural and remote regions.  Further Info

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Other Resources

Gender Impact Assessment: Women and Mental Health
Women's Health Victoria has published a Gender Impact Assessment on mental health.