Interpersonal violence presentations to general practitioners in Western Australia: Implications for rural and community health

Australian Health Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-74

  Meuleners, Lynn B ^a   Lee, Andy H ^a   Xia, Jianhong ^b   Fraser, Michelle ^a   Hendrie, Delia ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

domestic violence; geographic information systems; hot spot analysis; victimisation; violence episodes.

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952148996     PISSN: 01565788     EISSN: 14498944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AH10913     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Fernandez J, Ferrante A, Loh N, Maller M, Valuri G. Crime and Justice Statistics for Western Australia: 2003. Perth: University of Western Australia, Crime Research Centre; 2004.
2. Community Violence Prevention Strategy Reference Group. Preventing Violence: The State Community Violence Prevention Strategy 2005. AGreen Paper Policy Framework for Development. Perth,WA:Office of Crime Prevention, Department of Premier and Cabinet; 2005.
3. Australian Social Trends 2007, Article: Interpersonal Violence, Cat. No. 4102.0. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics; 2007.
4. Meuleners L, Hendrie D, Lee AH. Measuring the burden of interpersonal violence victimisation in Western Australia, No. 352. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology; 2008.
5. Year Book Australia, 2006. Cat. No. 1301.0. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics; 2006.
6. Hegarty KL, Bush R. Prevalence and associations of partner abuse in women attending general practice: a cross-sectional survey. Aust N Z J Public Health 2002; 26: 437-42. doi:10.1111/j.1467-842X.2002. tb00344.x (Pubitemid 36167902)
7. Mazza D, Dennerstein L, Ryan V. Physical, sexual and emotional violence against women: a general practice-based prevalence study. Med J Aust 1996; 164: 14-7. (Pubitemid 26015916)
8. Gavin A, Gillam C. Hospital admissions due to intimate partner violence in Western Australia 1994-2003. Perth: Western Australian Government; 2005.
9. Hayen A, Mitchell R. A description of interpersonal violence-related hospitalisations in New South Wales. N S W Public Health Bull 2006; 17: 8-12. doi:10.1071/NB06003
10. Clapham KF, Stevenson MR, Lo SK. Injury profiles of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in New South Wales. Med J Aust 2006; 184: 217-20.
11. Krug EG, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, Zwi AB, Lozano R. World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2002.
12. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Rural, regional and remote health: a guide to remoteness classifications. Cat. No. PHE 53. Canberra: AIHW; 2004.
13. Meuleners LB, Hendrie D, Lee AH. Hospitalisations due to interpersonal violence: a population-based study in Western Australia. Med J Aust 2008; 188: 572-5.
14. Mohajer N, Bessarab D, Earnest J. There should be more help out here! A qualitative study of the needs of aboriginal adolescents in rural Australia. Rural Remote Health 2009; 9: 1137.
15. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Crime and Safety, Australia. Cat. No. 4509.0. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics; 2005.
16. Cripps K. Indigenous family violence: a statistical challenge. Injury 2008; 39(Suppl. 5): S25-35. doi:10.1016/S0020-1383(08)70026-3
17. Jamieson LM, Harrison JE, Berry JG. Hospitalisation for head injury due to assault among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, July 1999-June 2005. Med J Aust 2008; 188: 576-9.
18. VicHealth. The health costs of violence. Measuring the burden of disease caused by intimate partner violence.A summary of findings. Melbourne: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation; 2004.
19. Alexander C, Fraser J. General practitioners' management of patients with mental health conditions: the views of general practitioners working in rural north-western New South Wales. Aust J Rural Health 2008; 16: 363-9. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1584.2008.01017.x
20. Sami DC, Hall P, Rounsevell J, Carr R. Shared care-shared dream: model of shared care in rural Australia between mental health services and general practitioners. Aust J Rural Health 2007; 15: 31-40.
21. Buchan H, Lourey E, D'Este C, Sanson-Fisher R. Effectiveness of strategies to encourage general practitioners to accept an offer of free access to online evidence-based information: a randomised controlled trial. Implement Sci 2009; 4: 68. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-68
22. Rowe L, Kidd MR. Increasing violence in Australian general practice is a public health issue. Med J Aust 2007; 187: 118-9. (Pubitemid 47162362)
23. Rutherford A, Zwi AB, Grove NJ, Butchart A. Violence: a priority for public health? (part 2). J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61: 764-70. doi:10.1136/jech.2006.049072 (Pubitemid 47311714)