Accidental suffocation in bed was responsible for 48 preventable deaths. Prevention of these accidental deaths needs to focus on supporting changes in family behaviour with safety messages that are consistent, persistent and disseminated widely.
The association between known SUDI risk factors, including bed sharing and/or smoking in pregnancy and SUDI risk, is the same regardless of ethnicity. Māori infants are exposed more frequently to both behaviours because of the higher Māori smoking rate.
The subjective police assessment of severity of injury was discordant in many instances with an objective measure of severity. There was variation in the concordance by personal, vehicle, and crash variables. This has implications for interpreting New Zealand's road safety statistics, the assessment of road safety programs, and the allocation of funding to target specific road safety problems.
The Southern Health and Social Services Board is one of four in the province and encompasses three administrative areas. The survey included ascertained mild cases of learning disability, and both ascertained and unascertained individuals functioning at levels below IQ 50. The prevalence of mild learning disability is within the limits reported in the literature and is discussed in the context of the 'new morbidity'. However, the rates of severe learning disability (IQ < 50) in all three areas are high--between 7.9 and 10.2 per 1000 in the 15-19-years-old age group--and confirm the findings of an earlier survey. Half of all cases live at home in 'intact' families. In families with a sole carer, the mother is seven times more likely to fill the role than the father.
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