Papers to note: Curtin University report on violence and mental health
20/03/2008
A Population Based Study Examining the Impact of Interpersonal Violence Victimisation on Mental Health is a report prepared for the Criminology Research Council by two researchers at Curtin University. The report utilised�hospital admissions data to identify every individual in Western Australia�who was admitted to hospital or killed as a result of an injury inflicted by others.
The results are informative:
- thirty-three per cent of repeat hospital admissions for interpersonal violence had a history of mental illness;
- Indigenous people were over-represented among the victims of interpersonal violence, accounting for 47 per cent�of the number of hospitalisations despite representing only 3-4% of the population of Western Australia during the study period.
20 March 2008
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