By IANS,
Sydney : Traumatic brain injury accounted for 980 fatalities and 22,700 hospitalisations in 2004-2005, costing the exchequer $184 million, an Australian report said.
Yvonne Helps of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) National Injury Surveillance Unit, who authored the report, said “traumatic brain injury or TBI, can occur when the brain is damaged as a result of a blow to the head.”
The most commonly reported causes of traumatic brain injury were falls (9,233 or over 40 percent), transport accident injuries (7,153 or over 31 percent) and assault (3,105 or nearly 14 percent), reports Sciencealert.
The report found that where traumatic brain injury was the principal diagnosis, the rates for males were two and a half times more than those for females.