National Healthcare Agreement: PI 60-Access to services by type of service compared to need, 2012
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Progress measure |
Short name:![]() | PI 60-Access to services compared to need, 2012 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 435991 |
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Description:![]() | Proportion of people who accessed health services by health status |
Indicator set:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement (2012) Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |
Outcome area:![]() | Social Inclusion and Indigenous Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 Indigenous, Standard 11/09/2012 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from:![]() | 15 years |
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Computation description:![]() | Categories of self-assessed health status are excellent, very good, good, fair and poor. These should be combined into two categories for reporting: excellent/very good/good and fair/poor. For the service type admitted hospitalisations, access is recorded based on the last 12 months. For all other services, access is recorded based on the last 2 weeks. Rates are directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. Limited to people aged 15 years or over. The service types to be reported are admitted hospitalisations; casualty/outpatients; GP and/or specialist doctor consultations; consultations with other health professional; dental consultation. Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage; 95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors are calculated for rates. |
Computation:![]() | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) Calculated separately for each type of service and by categories of self-assessed health status. |
Numerator:![]() | Number of people aged 15 years and over who accessed particular health services in the past 12 months (for hospital admissions) or 2 weeks (for other health services) |
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Denominator:![]() | Population aged 15 years and over |
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Disaggregation:![]() | Nationally and by state and territory, by service type, by:
Nationally, by SEIFA IRSD deciles Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Comments:![]() | Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2004-05 (total population: NHS); 2004–05: (Indigenous status: NATSIHS and NHS). NO NEW DATA FOR 2012 REPORTING For further detailed analysis by Indigenous status see the National Indigenous Reform Agreement (NIRA) report. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Percentage |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Person |
Format:![]() | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions:![]() | Effectiveness Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
Data sources:![]() | ABS 2004-05 National Health Survey (NHS) Frequency Every 3 years Data custodian Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS 2004-05 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) Frequency Every 6 years Data custodian Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements:![]() | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data:![]() | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Further data development / collection required:![]() | Specification: Interim |
Source and reference attributes | |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-Waiting times for GPs, 2012
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 15-Waiting times for public dentistry, 2012
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 16-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to cost, 2012
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 46-Rates of services: Outpatient occasions of service, 2012
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 47-Rates of services: Non-acute care separations, 2012
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 48-Rates of services: Hospital procedures, 2012
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 60-Access to services by type of service compared to need, 2011
See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 08-Access to health care compared to need, 2011
See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 08-Access to health care compared to need, 2012
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