Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 558241 |
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| Definition: | The specific group of women for which a model of maternity care is designed. |
Maternity model of care—target group
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Maternity model of care |
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| Definition: | The overarching design of how maternity care is delivered to a woman or women. This is a multidimensional concept that incorporates attributes of the women being cared for, the type of healthcare providers who provide the care and how and where the care is provided. |
| Context: | Used in maternal and perinatal healthcare settings. |
| Specialisation of: | Model of care |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit |
| Origin: | National Maternity Data Development Project (AIHW and NPESU), Maternity Care Classification System subproject. |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Target group |
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| Definition: | A group of people sharing a common characteristic or set of characteristics which a particular government policy or program, or agency seeks to assist. |
| Context: | Target group is used in describing community services agencies, in service planning and in comparing community needs and service availability. Target groups may relate to population groups or communities, families/households, individuals, organisations or labour force groups. Characteristics may include age, cultural identity, geographic location, specific needs and other relevant characteristics. |
| Property group: | Organisational characteristics |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Origin: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2003. National classifications of community services, Version 2.0. AIHW Cat. no. HWI 40. Canberra: AIHW. Reference through:http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/hwi/nccsv2/index.html |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit |
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| Origin: | National Maternity Data Development Project (AIHW and NPESU), Maternity Care Classification System subproject. |
Relational attributes
| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Maternity model of care—target group, code N[N]
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