The national metadata standards for the health sector are published in the National Health Data Dictionary by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Downloading the NHDD
The NHDD downloaded from METEOR on 05/01/2007. Changes to the data elements and data set specifications since version 13 of the NHDD was published are available in a separate document called ‘National health data dictionary summary of updates since version 13’.
Large file warning
The NHDD is a large document that has been broken up into 8 volumes with the data elements in alphabetical order by 'Short name'. Some of the Word documents are 3 MB and may exceed the capacity of some systems if downloaded.
