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children — most childhood diseases and injuries can be successfully prevented ortreated without hospitalisation. This indicator examines injury and preventablediseases that result in children being hospitalised.Box 1.20KEY MESSAGES• In 2004-05, Indigenous children under four were twice as likely to be hospitalised forpotentially preventable diseases and injuries than non-Indigenous children (251 per1000 compared to 123 per 1000) (table 5.1.1).• For the period 2001 to 2005, the death rate from external causes and preventablediseases was around five times as high for Indigenous children (from 6 to 11 per10 000 population) as for non-Indigenous children (from 1 to 3 per 10 000population) in Queensland, WA, SA and the NT (figure 5.1.2).Potentially preventable hospitalisations, for children aged less than 4 years,2004-05IndigenousNon-IndigenousPer 1000 population400350300250200150100500Qld WA SA NT TotalSource: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database (unpublished); table 5A.1.1.OVERVIEW 27