Table 2.

Residential fire-related incidents health impact characteristics in social housing dwellings and non-social housing dwellings from 2005 to 2014, NSW, Australia.

	N* = 43,707	Residential fire-related incidents						Social housing vs non-social housing
	Characteristics	Social		Non-social		Total		RR	95%CI
		N	%	N	%	N	%
Health services †
	Used	318	6.3	2,070	5.4	2,388	5.5	1.16	1.04 – 1.28*
Hospitalisation
	Hospitalised	100	2.0	593	1.5	693	1.6	1.25	1.02 – 1.51*
Mortality status
	Died	12	0.2	106	0.3	118	0.3	0.88	0.47 – 1.47

† includes using Ambulance, Emergency department, Hospital and Burn clinics as a result of residential fire incident.

Significance (p value) = * < 0.01, ** < 0.001, *** < 0.0001.