The proportion of children and young people under 18 years presenting to public hospital emergency departments whose presentation are classified as ‘potentially preventable hospitalisations’ in SA was 12.1% in 2022 (13.3% in 2018).

Data Source: Health Information Portal (Admitted Activity), SA Health

The percentage of presentations by Aboriginal children and young people under 18 years to public hospital emergency departments, whose presentations were classified as ‘potentially preventable hospitalisations’, was 14.6% in 2022 (15.8% in 2018).

Data Source: Health Information Portal (Admitted Activity), SA Health

For a three-year period from 2014-16, 5.3 per 100,000 deaths of children and young people under 15 years in SA were attributable to preventable/unintentional injury (4.5 in 2010-12).
Nationally, the rate was 4.1 from 2014-16 (5.0 in 2010-12).

Data Source: AIHW, Children’s Headline Indicators

Between 2012-16, 20.9 per 100,000 deaths of Aboriginal children and young people under 15 years were classified as preventable/unintentional deaths (9.3 in 2008-2012).
Nationally, the rate for 2012-16 was 14.5 per 100,000 deaths (14.2 in 2009-13).

Data Source: AIHW, Children’s Headline Indicators

In 2023-24, 443 police cautions or fines were issued in SA to drivers for passengers under 16 years not being safely restrained (a significant reduction from 614 in 2018-19).

Data Source: DATA SA, Expiation Notice System Data