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Health professional—principal role, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termPrincipal role of health professional
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270145
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 10/12/2009
Definition:Help on this termThe principal role in which the health professional usually works the most hours each week, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:Health professional—principal role

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
1Clinician
2Administrator
3Teacher/educator
4Researcher
5Public health/health promotion
6Occupational health
7Environmental health
Supplementary values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
9Unknown/inadequately described/not stated

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

CODE 1     Clinician

A clinician is a person mainly involved in the area of clinical practice, i.e. diagnosis, care and treatment, including recommended preventative action, to patients or clients. Clinical practice may involve direct client contact or may be practised indirectly through individual case material (as in radiology and laboratory medicine).

CODE 2     Administrator

An administrator in a health profession is a person whose main job is in an administrative capacity in the profession, e.g. directors of nursing, medical superintendents, medical advisors in government health authorities, health profession union administrators (e.g. Australian Medical Association, Australian Nurses Federation).

CODE 3     Teacher/educator

A teacher/educator in a health profession is a person whose main job is employment by tertiary institutions or health institutions to provide education and training in the profession.

CODE 4     Researcher

A researcher in a health profession is a person whose main job is to conduct research in the field of the profession, especially in the area of clinical activity. Researchers are employed by tertiary institutions, medical research bodies, health institutions, health authorities, drug companies and other bodies.

CODES 5 - 7

CODE 5     Public health/health promotion

CODE 6     Occupational health

CODE 7     Environmental health

Public health/health promotion, occupational health and environmental health are specialties in medicine, and fields of practice for some other health professions. They are public health rather than clinical practice, and hence are excluded from clinical practice.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Collection methods:Help on this termFor respondents indicating that their principal professional role is in clinical practice, a more detailed identification of that role is established according to profession-specific categories.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termNational Health Labour Force Data Working Group

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes PDFPrincipal role of health professional, version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (17.1 KB) No registration status
Has been superseded by Registered health professional—principal role, health profession code N
  • Health, Standard 10/12/2009
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Health labour force NMDSHealth, Superseded 10/12/2009

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2005

DSS specific information:

This metadata item provides information on the principal professional role of respondents who currently work within the broad context/discipline field of their profession (as determined by the metadata item Professional labour force status). Identification of clinicians provides comparability with other labour force collections that just include clinicians.


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