Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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Synonymous names: | Public health |
METEOR identifier: | 352234 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 05/12/2007 |
Definition: | Organised response by society to protect and promote health, and to prevent illness, injury and disability. The starting point for identifying public health issues, problems and priorities, and for designing and implementing interventions is the population as a whole, or population subgroups (NPHP 1998). |
Context: | Public health functions |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | To be used for collecting information on public health expenditure and activities. |
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Collection methods: | Collected through the National Public Health Expenditure Project and the Government Health Expenditure NMDS. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Origin: | National Public Health Partnership 1998. |
Reference documents: | (NPHP) National Public Health Partnership 1998. Public Health in Australia: the public health landscape: person, society, environment. Melbourne: NPHP. |
Relational attributes | |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Government health expenditure NMDS 2014- Health, Standard 04/12/2013 Health or health related function code NNN Health, Superseded 04/12/2013 Health or health related-function code NNN Health, Standard 04/12/2013 |