Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (all ages)

Mental health and well-being is an important aspect of public health. Self-harm is an expression of personal distress. There is a significant and persistent risk of future suicide following an episode of self-harm.

This data shows self-harm events severe enough to warrant hospital admission. Almost all hospital admissions for intentional self-harm are emergency admissions. Although hospital admissions data is being used as a proxy for the prevalence of severe self-harm, this is only the tip of the iceberg in relation to the health and well-being burden of self-harm.

Directly Age-Standardised Rates (DASR) are shown in the data (where numbers are sufficient) so that rates can be directly compared between areas. The DASR calculation applies Age-specific rates to a Standard European population to cancel out possible effects on crude rates due to different age structures among populations, thus enabling direct comparisons of rates.

Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) indicator 2.10ii (21001-C14b). This data is updated annually.

心理健康与福祉乃公共卫生领域之关键要素。自伤行为乃个人痛苦之表达。在自伤事件发生后，未来自杀之风险显著且持久。本数据集展示了因自伤行为严重至需住院治疗的事件。几乎所有因故意自伤而入院的患者均为紧急入院。尽管住院数据被用作严重自伤普遍性的代理指标，但这仅是自伤对健康与福祉负担之冰山一角。数据中（在数据量充足的情况下）展示了直接年龄标准化率（DASR），以便直接比较不同地区之间的比率。DASR的计算方法是将年龄特定比率应用于标准欧洲人口，以消除因人群年龄结构不同而对粗率可能产生的影响，从而实现比率之间的直接比较。数据来源：健康改善与差异办公室（OHID），公共卫生成果框架（PHOF）指标2.10ii（21001-C14b）。此数据每年更新一次。