Public health

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
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.
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- ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 04/12/2013 Health or health related function code NNN Health, Superseded 04/12/2013 Health or health related-function code NNN ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 04/12/2013