The cost of hospitalisation for youth self-harm: differences across age groups, sex, Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations.
Irina KinchinAlex Myles Thomas RussellJoshua M ByrnesJanya McCalmanChristopher M DoranErnest HunterPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2019)
Hospitalised self-harm among Australian youth resulted in a substantial cost to the healthcare system. This cost is only part of the overall burden associated with self-harm. The rate of hospitalised self-harm was significantly higher in Indigenous youth, but the associated cost per episode was significantly lower.