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Family

351499 | Glossary Item
Two or more people related by blood, marriage (registered or de facto), adoption, step or fostering who may or may not live together.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Indigenous, Disability, Children and Families

Family and carer support

721767 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Family and carer support includes services that provide families and carers of people living with a mental illness support, information, education and skill development opportunities to fulfil their caring role, while maintaining their own health and wellbeing (Mission Australia 2012). These services may be provided in the context of early intervention or ongoing support.
Standard: Health

Family and carer support

494979 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Family and carer support includes services that provide families and carers of people living with a mental illness support, information, education and skill development opportunities to fulfil their caring role, while maintaining their own health and wellbeing (Mission Australia 2012). These services may be provided in the context of early intervention or ongoing support.
Superseded: Health

Family violence

693486 | Glossary Item
Violence between family members as well as between current or former intimate partners. For example, family violence can include acts of violence between a parent and a child.
Standard: Health

Finalised adoption

749075 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An adoption order that was completed during the reporting period. This includes orders that were made in Australia, and, in the case of some intercountry adoptions, where the full adoption order was made in the country of origin. The way in which an adoption is finalised depends on the process used in the country of origin and the procedures of the state or territory department responsible for adoption in Australia.
Standard: Children and Families

Finalised adoption

689417 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An adoption order that was completed during the reporting period. This includes orders that were made in Australia, and, in the case of some intercountry adoptions, where the full adoption order was made in the country of origin. The way in which an adoption is finalised depends on the process used in the country of origin and the procedures of the state or territory department responsible for adoption in Australia.
Superseded: Children and Families

First degree relative

494465 | Glossary Item
An individual's first degree relative is a parent, sibling or child of the individual. A first degree relative shares approximately half of their genes with the individual.
Standard: Health

First Nations regular client

788128 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
First Nations regular client refers to a First Nations client of a funded organisation that is required to report against the First Nations-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, a First Nations client who has attended the funded organisation at least 3 times in 2 years.
Standard: Indigenous

Functional Independence Measure

495857 | Glossary Item | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
An assessment of the severity of patient disability.
Standard: Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Health, Tasmanian Health

Functioning

327292 | Glossary Item
Functioning is the umbrella term for any or all of: body functions, body structures, activities and participation. Functioning is a multidimensional concept denoting the neutral aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual's environmental and personal factors.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Disability

Funded agency under the National Disability Agreement (NDA)

386548 | Glossary Item | National Disability Data Network (NDDN)
A funded agency is usually a legal entity providing one or more types of National Disability Agreement (NDA) service types to service users at one or more different locations. The organisational unit that delivers a single service type at or from a discrete location is described as a service type outlet. Where a funded agency provides only one service type, the service type outlet and the funded agency are one and the same entity.
Standard: Disability

Funded organisation

787038 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Funded organisation refers to a First Nations-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care under its Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP).
Standard: Indigenous

Funded organisation

779194 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Funded organisation refers to an Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care under its Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP).
Superseded: Indigenous

Funded organisation

754991 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Funded organisation refers to an Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service funded by the Department of Health under its Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP).
Superseded: Indigenous

Gender

750032 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Gender is about social and cultural differences in identity, expression and experience as a man, boy, woman, girl, or non-binary person. Non-binary is an umbrella term describing gender identities that are not exclusively male or female.Gender is often used interchangeably with sex, however they are distinct concepts and it is important to differentiate between them.
Standard: Health, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Tasmanian Health, Aged Care, Indigenous
Qualified: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Genetic syndrome/disorder

594021 | Glossary Item
A genetic syndrome or disorder is an illness or susceptibility to illness that is caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome. These may be heritable (i.e. passed down from parents) or new mutations in the DNA.
Standard: Health

Geocode

454203 | Glossary Item
A description of the coordinates representing the location/position of an object.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Disability, Health

Geographic indicator

722655 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A classification scheme that divides an area into mutually exclusive sub-areas based on geographic location.
Standard: Health, Indigenous, Children and Families, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Tasmanian Health

Geographic indicator

327306 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A classification scheme that divides an area into mutually exclusive sub-areas based on geographic location. Some geographic indicators are:Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC, ABS cat. no. 1216.0, effective up until 1 July 2011)Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS, ABS cat. nos. 1270.0.55.001 to 1270.0.55.005, effective from 1 July 2011)administrative regionselectoratesAccessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA)Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Area Classificati...
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Children and Families
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Homelessness, Early Childhood, Disability, Tasmanian Health, Aged Care
Retired: Commonwealth Department of Health
Qualified: Youth Justice

Gestational diabetes mellitus

527427 | Glossary Item | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a carbohydrate intolerance resulting in hyperglycaemia of variable severity with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. The definition applies irrespective of whether or not insulin is used for treatment or the condition persists after pregnancy.
Standard: Health, Tasmanian Health

Gleason score

598061 | Glossary Item
The histopathological grade for prostate cancer outlining the differentiation between tumour tissue and normal prostate tissue. The Gleason score is assigned by a pathologist on assessment of specimens from radical prostatectomy or needle core biopsy. A low Gleason score indicates that the cancer tissue is similar to normal prostate tissue and the tumour is less likely to spread; a high Gleason score indicates that the cancer tissue is very different from normal prostate tissue and the tumour is...
Standard: Health

Goal

527563 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An aim or end towards which effort is directed.
Standard: Disability

Greatest need

494368 | Glossary Item
Greatest need households are low income households that at the time of allocation were subject to one or more of the following circumstances: they were homeless their life or safety was at risk in their accommodation their health condition was aggravated by their housing their housing was inappropriate to their needs they had very high rental housing costs.
Standard: Housing assistance

Grommet

562346 | Glossary Item
A small, plastic tube inserted through the tympanic membrane into the middle ear to assist in preventing infection.
Standard: Indigenous

Group support activities

721757 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Group support activities includes services that aim to improve the quality of life and psychosocial functioning of mental health consumers, through the provision of group-based social, recreational or prevocational activities. In contrast to services in the Mutual support and self-help service type, Group support activities are led by a member of the NGO.
Standard: Health

Group support activities

494964 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Group support activities includes services that aim to improve the quality of life and psychosocial functioning of mental health consumers, through the provision of group-based social, recreational or prevocational activities.In contrast to services in the Mutual support and self-help service type, Group support activities are led by a member of the NGO.
Superseded: Health

Hague adoption

749077 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An intercountry adoption where the adoptive child’s country of origin has ratified or acceded to the Hague Convention, and the file of the applicant(s) was sent after the Hague Convention entered into force in that country.
Standard: Children and Families

Hague adoption

722864 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An intercountry adoption where Australia had an official adoption program open with the adoptive child’s country of origin has ratified or acceded to the Hague Convention, and the file of the applicant(s) was sent after the Hague Convention entered into force in that country.
Superseded: Children and Families

Hague adoption

700985 | Glossary Item | Australian Institue of Health and Welfare
An intercountry adoption where the adoptive child’s country of origin has ratified or acceded to the Hague Convention, and the file of the applicant(s) was sent after the Hague Convention entered into force in that country
Superseded: Children and Families

Hague Convention

749098 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A convention—specifically, the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption—that establishes standards and procedures for adoptions between countries. The Hague Convention includes legally binding safeguards and a system of supervision, and establishes channels of communication between countries. It came into force in Australia on 1 December 1998.
Standard: Children and Families

Hague Convention

700995 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A convention—specifically, the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption—that establishes standards and procedures for adoptions between countries. The Hague Convention includes legally binding safeguards and a system of supervision, and establishes channels of communication between countries. It came into force in Australia on 1 December 1998. An intercountry adoption is classified as a Hague adoption, Bilateral adoption or non-Hague adopti...
Superseded: Children and Families

Hague Convention

689419 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A convention—specifically, the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption—that establishes standards and procedures for adoptions between countries. The Hague Convention includes legally binding safeguards and a system of supervision, and establishes channels of communication between countries. It came into force in Australia on 1 December 1998. An intercountry adoption is classified as a Hague adoption or non-Hague adoption.
Superseded: Children and Families

Hague Convention

722866 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A convention—specifically, the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption—that establishes standards and procedures for adoptions between countries. The Hague Convention includes legally binding safeguards and a system of supervision, and establishes channels of communication between countries. It came into force in Australia on 1 December 1998. An intercountry adoption is classified as a Hague adoption, Bilateral adoption or known child inte...
Superseded: Children and Families

Hand hygiene moment

769613 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An occasion in a healthcare setting where there is a perceived or actual risk of pathogen transmission from one surface to another via the hands.
Standard: Health

Head-leased dwelling (government)

327318 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Dwellings owned by state and territory governments that are leased to other government or non-government organisations via head-leasing arrangements.
Standard: Housing assistance, Community Services (retired)

Head-leased dwelling (private)

639150 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Dwellings owned by private individuals or private corporations that are leased to an entity which provides housing via head-leasing arrangements. The gaining entity housing provider is usually responsible for tenant selection and tenancy management functions.
Standard: Housing assistance

Head-leased dwelling (private)

327414 | Glossary Item | NSW Department of Housing, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Dwellings owned by private individuals or private corporations that are leased to Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (CSHA) housing providers via head-leasing arrangements. The CSHA housing provider is usually responsible for tenant selection and tenancy management functions.
Superseded: Housing assistance
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Health labour force

327240 | Glossary Item
All those in paid employment, unpaid contributing family workers, and unpaid volunteers: whose primary employment role is to achieve a health outcome for either individuals or the population as a whole, whether this is in clinical, research, education, administrative or public health capacities employed in the health industry defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics using the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification, other than those already included. The health lab...
Standard: Health

Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+

730842 | Glossary Item | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
An assessment of psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning in an older patient.
Standard: Health, Tasmanian Health

Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+

495880 | Glossary Item | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
An assessment of psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning in an older patient.
Standard: Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Tasmanian Health
Superseded: Health

Health of the Nation Outcome Scale 65+

681544 | Glossary Item | Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
An assessment of psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning in an older patient.
Superseded: Health

Health outcome

327238 | Glossary Item | National Health Information Management Group.
A change in the health of an individual, or a group of people or a population, which is wholly or partially attributable to an intervention or a series of interventions.
Standard: Health

Health outcome indicator

327246 | Glossary Item | National Health Information Management Group
A statistic or other unit of information which reflects, directly or indirectly, the effect of an intervention, facility, service or system on the health of its target population, or the health of an individual. A generic indicator provides information on health, perceived health or a specific dimension of health using measurement methods that can be applied to people in any health condition. A condition-specific indicator provides information on specific clinical conditions or health problems,...
Standard: Health

Health professional

595689 | Glossary Item
Qualified health practitioners (other than qualified medical officers) registered under the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency legislation.
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Healthcare provider

620370 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A person or organisation involved in, or associated with the delivery of healthcare to a person or with caring for a person's wellbeing. Examples include a clinician, hospital, individual healthcare provider and healthcare organisation.
Standard: Health

Hearing impairment

530152 | Glossary Item
A classification that estimates the degree of handicap associated with hearing loss in the better ear and links to predicted consequences and recommended rehabilitation. Hearing impairment classification applies a graded scale - mild, moderate, severe and profound - based on degree of deviation from normal thresholds in the better ear as recorded through audiometry.
Standard: Indigenous

Hearing loss

530015 | Glossary Item
Describes any hearing threshold response (using audiometry) outside the normal range, at any sound stimuli, in either ear.
Standard: Indigenous

Heavy menstrual bleeding

667292 | Glossary Item | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Heavy menstrual bleeding is excessive menstrual blood loss which interferes with a person's physical, emotional, social and material quality of life, and which can occur alone or in combination with other symptoms (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence 2016).
Standard: Health, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Hepatitis

523570 | Glossary Item
An inflammation of the liver; can be caused by viral infections.
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Highly Specialised Drugs

623382 | Glossary Item
Highly Specialised Drugs (HSDs) are medicines for the treatment of chronic conditions which, prior to 1 July 2015, were restricted to supply through public and private hospitals having access to appropriate specialist facilities because of their clinical use or other special features. To prescribe these drugs as pharmaceutical benefit items, medical practitioners were required to be affiliated with these specialist hospital units. A general practitioner or non-specialist hospital doctor could on...
Retired: Commonwealth Department of Health

Hip fracture (Hip fracture care clinical care standard)

629165 | Glossary Item | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
For the purposes of the Hip fracture care clinical care standard (ACSQHC 2015a), hip fracture is a break occurring at the top of the thigh bone (femur), near the pelvis.
Standard: Health

Homeless

327244 | Glossary Item | SAAP National Data Collection Agency, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A person is homeless if he or she does not have access to safe, secure and stable housing. Hence even if a person has a physical home, they would be considered homeless if: they were not safe at home, they had no legal right to continued occupation of their home (security of tenure), or the home lacked the amenities or resources necessary for living.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Homelessness

Homeless (SAAP)

327316 | Glossary Item | SAAP National Data Collection Agency, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A person is homeless if he or she does not have access to safe, secure and adequate housing. Unsafe, insecure and inadequate housing includes housing: in which the client did not feel safe (this can include the client's own home); in which the client did not have a legal right to continued occupation of their home (security of tenure); that lacked the amenities or resources necessary for living (such as adequate heating, plumbing or cooking facilities); and provided by a Supported Accommodat...
Standard: Housing assistance

Homelessness

401033 | Glossary Item
A person is experiencing homelessness if they are: In non-conventional accommodation or 'sleeping rough'; or Living in short-term or emergency accommodation due to a lack of other options.
Standard: Housing assistance

Hormone therapy

439580 | Glossary Item | Cancer Australia
The treatment of disease with hormones obtained from endocrine glands or substances that stimulate hormonal effects.
Standard: Health

Hospital boarder

327242 | Glossary Item | National Health Data Committee.
A person who is receiving food and/or accommodation but for whom the hospital does not accept responsibility for treatment and/or care.
Standard: Health, Tasmanian Health

Hospital waiting list

327176 | Glossary Item
A register which contains essential details about patients who have been assessed as needing elective hospital care.
Standard: Health

Hospital-based outreach service event

327172 | Glossary Item
Hospital-based outreach services events relate to treatment of patients by hospital staff in a location that is not part of the hospital campus (such as in the patient's home or place of work).
Standard: Health

Hospital-in-the-home care

327308 | Glossary Item
Provision of care to hospital admitted patients in their place of residence as a substitute for hospital accommodation. Place of residence may be permanent or temporary.
Standard: Health, Tasmanian Health
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Household

465183 | Glossary Item
A group of two or more related or unrelated people who usually reside in the same dwelling, and who make common provision for food or other essentials for living; or a single person living in a dwelling who makes provision for his or her own food and other essentials for living, without combining with any other person.
Standard: Housing assistance, Children and Families

Housing administrator

494435 | Glossary Item
The State and Territory Government body with the responsibility of administering housing programs.
Standard: Housing assistance

Hypertensive disorder during pregnancy

733548 | Glossary Item
Hypertensive disorder during pregnancy includes pre-existing hypertensive disorders, hypertension arising in pregnancy and associated disorders such as eclampsia and preeclampsia. Hypertension in pregnancy is defined as: 1. Systolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 140 mmHg and/or 2. Diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 90 mmHg. Measurements should be confirmed by repeated readings over several hours. Elevations of both systolic and diastolic blood pressures have been associa...
Standard: Health

Hypertensive disorder during pregnancy

523104 | Glossary Item
Hypertensive disorder during pregnancy includes pre-existing hypertensive disorders, hypertension arising in pregnancy and associated disorders such as eclampsia and preeclampsia. Hypertension in pregnancy is defined as: 1. Systolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 140 mmHg and/or 2. Diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 90 mmHg. Measurements should be confirmed by repeated readings over several hours. Elevations of both systolic and diastolic blood pressures have been associa...
Superseded: Health
Standard: Tasmanian Health

Hypertensive disorder during pregnancy

655620 | Glossary Item
Hypertensive disorder during pregnancy includes pre-existing hypertensive disorders, hypertension arising in pregnancy and associated disorders such as eclampsia and preeclampsia. Hypertension in pregnancy is defined as: 1. Systolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 140 mmHg and/or 2. Diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 90 mmHg. Measurements should be confirmed by repeated readings over several hours. Elevations of both systolic and diastolic blood pressures have been associa...
Superseded: Health

Hypoglycaemia

327320 | Glossary Item
An abnormally low level of glucose in the blood, which occurs when the blood glucose level falls to values low enough to cause symptoms and signs.
Standard: Health

Illicit drug

413485 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An illicit drug is defined as any drug which is illegal to possess or use or any legal drug used in an illegal manner, for example: a drug obtained on prescription but given or sold to another person to use glue or petrol which is sold legally, but is used in a manner that is not intended, such as inhaling fumes stolen pharmaceuticals sold on the black market (e.g. Pethidine)
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired)

Immunohistochemistry

523027 | Glossary Item
Immunohistochemistry is a technique used in the evaluation of pathology specimens to analyse and identify cell types based on the binding of antibodies to specific components (antigens) of the cell. The antigens are demonstrated in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes such as horseradish peroxide. Immunohistochemistry may be useful, for example, to distinguish between primary and metastatic tumours, identify where the tumour originated if the primary is unkno...
Standard: Health

Immunotherapy

437322 | Glossary Item | Cancer Australia
The application of immunologic knowledge and techniques to prevent and treat disease.
Standard: Health

Impairment of body function

327290 | Glossary Item
Impairments of body function are problems in body function such as a loss or significant departure from population standards or averages.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired)

Impairment of body structure

327288 | Glossary Item
Impairments of body structure are problems in body structure such as a loss or significant departure from population standards or averages.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Disability

Inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV)

523581 | Glossary Item
Inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine.
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Income unit

327218 | Glossary Item | Australian Bureau of Statistics
One person or a group of related persons within a household, whose command over income is shared, or any person living in a non-private dwelling who is in receipt of personal income. Income units are restricted to relationships of marriage (registered or de facto) and of parent/dependent child who usually resides in the same household. This means that an income unit can be defined as: a married couple or sole parent, and dependent children only; or a married couple only with no dependent child...
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Indigenous regular client

779198 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous regular client refers to an Indigenous client of an Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service that is required to report against the Indigenous-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, an Indigenous client who has attended the Department of Health and Aged Care-funded Indigenous-specific primary healt...
Superseded: Indigenous

Indigenous regular client

737993 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous regular client refers to an Indigenous client of an Australian Government Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation that is required to report against the Indigenous-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, an Indigenous client who has attended the Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation at least 3 times in 2 years.
Superseded: Indigenous

Indigenous regular client

755097 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous regular client refers to an Indigenous client of an Australian Government Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation or maternal and child health program/service that is required to report against the Indigenous-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators who has an active medical record; that is, an Indigenous client who has attended the Department of Health-funded Indigenous-specific primary health care organisation at least...
Superseded: Indigenous

Individual advocacy

721769 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Individual advocacy includes services that seek to represent the rights and interests of people with a mental illness, on a one-to-one basis, by addressing instances of discrimination, abuse and neglect. Individual advocates work with people with mental illness on either a short-term or issue-specific basis. Individual advocates: work with people with mental illness requiring one-to-one advocacy support develop a plan of action (sometimes called an individual advocacy plan), in partnership wi...
Standard: Health

Individual advocacy

494982 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Individual advocacy includes services that seek to represent the rights and interests of people with a mental illness, on a one-to-one basis, by addressing instances of discrimination, abuse and neglect. Individual advocates work with people with mental illness on either a short-term or issue-specific basis. Individual advocates: work with people with mental illness requiring one-to-one advocacy support develop a plan of action (sometimes called an individual advocacy plan), in partnership wi...
Superseded: Health

Inflammatory bowel disease

697238 | Glossary Item | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
A group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (NICE 2011).
Standard: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Informal carer

353420 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An informal carer includes any person, such as a family member, friend or neighbour, who is giving regular, ongoing assistance to another person.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Disability, Aged Care

Informal Carer

327416 | Glossary Item
Informal carers include those people who receive a pension or benefit for their caring role but does not include paid or volunteer carers organised by formal services.
Retired: Community Services (retired)

Initial health check

532593 | Glossary Item | Research, Evaluation and Data Working Group (REDWG).
Initial health checks aim to ensure children and young people receive effective and coordinated health care upon entering the care of the Minister/Chief Executive. Checks are conducted by a health professional and aim to identify any significant health issues and any follow up treatment or specialist referrals required. Health professionals may conduct assessments across four domains: physical (e.g. health, nutrition, dental, vision and hearing); developmental; psychosocial; and mental health. T...
Standard: Children and Families

Integer

528618 | Glossary Item
Any of the numbers 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, etc. a whole number, as distinguished from a fraction or a mixed number.
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Intensive care

327452 | Glossary Item
Intensive care is defined as care provided by an intensive care team where one of the following is needed: invasive ventilation, ionotropes, non-invasive ventilation (>50% continuously>6h), needing 1:1 nursing or continuous renal replacement therapy.
Recorded: Health

Intensive care liaison nurses

593896 | Glossary Item | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care/Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Nurses who are trained to provide specialised support services to ward staff caring for acutely ill patients.
Standard: Health

Intensive care unit

327234 | Glossary Item | National Intensive Care Working Group.
An intensive care unit (ICU) is a designated ward of a hospital which is specially staffed and equipped to provide observation, care and treatment to patients with actual or potential life-threatening illnesses, injuries or complications, from which recovery is possible. The ICU provides special expertise and facilities for the support of vital functions and utilises the skills of medical, nursing and other staff trained and experienced in the management of these problems.
Standard: Health, Tasmanian Health

Intercountry adoption

749058 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Intercountry adoptions are adoptions of children from countries other than Australia, who are legally able to be placed for adoption but who generally have had no previous contact with the adoptive parent(s). There are four categories of intercountry adoptions: Hague adoption, bilateral adoption, known child intercountry adoption and ad-hoc adoption. These are classified as either 'program adoptions' (Hague or bilateral) or 'non-program adoptions' (known child or ad-hoc) according to whether the...
Standard: Children and Families

Intercountry adoption

700992 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Intercountry adoptions are adoptions of children from countries other than Australia, who are legally able to be placed for adoption, but who generally have had no previous contact or relationship with the adoptive parents. There are three categories of intercountry adoptions: Hague adoption, Bilateral adoption and non-Hague adoption.
Superseded: Children and Families

Intercountry adoption

722868 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Intercountry adoptions are adoptions of children from countries other than Australia, who are legally able to be placed for adoption, but who generally have had no previous contact or relationship with the adoptive parents. There are four categories of intercountry adoptions: Hague adoption, Bilateral adoption, known child intercountry adoption and ad-hoc adoption.
Superseded: Children and Families

Intercountry adoption

689421 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An adoption of a child/children from countries other than Australia who may legally be placed for adoption, but who generally have had no previous contact with the adoptive parent(s). There are 2 categories of intercountry adoptions: Hague adoption and non-Hague adoption. There are 2 arrangements for intercountry adoptions: full adoption order in child’s country of origin, and guardianship order in child’s country of origin.
Superseded: Children and Families

Investigation (child protection)

367345 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An investigation is the process whereby state and territory child protection and support services obtain more detailed information about a child who is subject of a notification and make assessment about the harm or degree of harm to the child and the child's protective needs. An investigation includes the interviewing or sighting of the subject child where it is practicable to do so.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Children and Families

Ischaemic stroke (Acute stroke clinical care standard)

721349 | Glossary Item | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
An ischaemic stroke is a type of acute stroke that occurs when an artery supplying blood to the brain suddenly becomes blocked This is as opposed to a bleed from an artery, which is known as a haemorrhagic stroke (AIHW 2013).
Qualified: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Juvenile detention centre

398978 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A place administered and operated by a department responsible for juvenile justice, where young people under the age of 18 years are detained while under the supervision of the department on a pre-sentence or sentenced detention episode.
Standard: Health

Known adoption

689423 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An adoption of a child/children who were born or permanently residing in Australia before the adoption, who have a pre-existing relationship with the adoptive parent(s) and who are generally not able to be adopted by anyone other than the adoptive parent(s). These types of adoptions are broken down into the following categories, depending on the child’s relationship to the adoptive parent(s): step-parent, relative(s), carer and other.
Superseded: Children and Families

Known child adoption

749082 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An adoption of a child/children who were born or permanently residing in Australia before the adoption, who have a pre-existing relationship with the adoptive parent(s) and who are generally not able to be adopted by anyone other than the adoptive parent(s). These types of adoptions are broken down into the following categories, depending on the child’s relationship to the adoptive parent(s): step-parent, relative(s), carer and other.
Standard: Children and Families

Known child intercountry adoption

749060 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A non-program intercountry adoption where the child and the applicant had a pre-existing relationship prior to the adoption that allowed the adoption to occur. Without this relationship, the child would not generally be able to be adopted by the applicant through an intercountry adoption process.
Standard: Children and Families

Known child intercountry adoption

722878 | Glossary Item | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An intercountry, non-program adoption where the child and the applicant had a pre-existing relationship prior to the adoption that allowed the adoption to occur. Without this relationship, the child would not generally be able to be adopted by the applicant through an intercountry adoption process.
Superseded: Children and Families

Landlord

327178 | Glossary Item
Landlord is the legal entity with which the tenant obtains the contractual right to occupy dwelling space as a home.
Standard: Housing assistance

Late effect

580923 | Glossary Item
A persistent complication, disability or adverse outcome that appears after the acute stage of a disease has resolved (excluding a recurrence or progression of disease). This may be as a result of the treatment, the disease process, or both. Examples of late effects are infertility, hyperthyroidism, fatigue, scoliosis and cognitive impairment.
Standard: Health

Leave period

327156 | Glossary Item
Leave period is a temporary absence from hospital, with medical approval for a period no greater than seven consecutive days.
Standard: Health, Tasmanian Health

Leaving care plan (Out-of-Home Care)

532569 | Glossary Item | Research, Evaluation and Data Working Group (REDWG).
A leaving care plan (also called a transition from care plan) is developed in preparation for the young person exiting care into independent living. Leaving care plans are developed in agreement with the child/young person and usually include: Goals/objectives; Needs assessment including: accommodation, education/training, employment, health and living skills; Planned measures/actions; Family contact arrangements/relationship connections; Income support; and Post-care suppo...
Recorded: Community Services (retired)
Standard: Children and Families

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