Table 3.

Injuries/musculoskeletal/arthritic disorders

Details of non-fatal injuries	Authors	Result
Back condition	All Ireland Traveller Health Study8	30.4% Travellers, Ireland (background population 16%). 25.2% Travellers, Northern Ireland.
Arthritis	All Ireland Traveller Health Study8	13.8% Travellers, Ireland (background population 11%). 13.2% Travellers, Northern Ireland.
Injury (prevalence of injury and intentional/unintentional)	Abdalla et al26	Travellers (aged 15-64 years) had a higher incidence of intentional injuries, SIR=213 for intentional injuries (male=170, female=258). Travellers (aged 15-64 years) had a lower incidence of unintentional injury than the general population: SIR=40 (male=39, female=42). Travellers over 65 years were two times as likely to report an injury than the general population. Overall injury SIR for Travellers aged 15–64 years=59 and 65 years+=208. Intentional injury SIR for Travellers>65 years=517. Unintentional injury SIR for Travellers>65 years=137. Overall injury SIR for Travellers>65 years=208.
Injury (question from dimension 4 lifestyle and health behaviour of the health status interview)	Kelleher et al19	‘Free of injuries in the last 2 years versus one or more injury’: 88.7% (n=1800).

SIR, standardised incidence ratio.