Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services data set specification describes information from primary health-care services that received funding from the Australian Government through the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH).

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care centres are those that provide comprehensive health-care services that include (but are not limited to) general practitioners, dentists, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and health workers.

Funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services includes the following:

• health service delivery
• chronic and communicable disease prevention
• child and maternal health
• Primary Health Care Access Program (PHCAP) services: a Commonwealth Government policy implemented in partnership with State/Territory Governments, the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector and ATSIC. PHCAP aims to provide funding for the expansion of primary health care services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in areas identified as having the highest relative need.
• mental health
• substance use

The aggregate level collection supports information to be collected at the service provider organisation level.

The reporting period is between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2011.

Collection and usage attributes

The OATSIH Services Reporting (OSR) is a single questionnaire that incorporates 5 sections:

• Part A Service Details (all services to answer)
• Part B Primary Health Care
• Part C Standalone Substance Use (both residential and non-residential)
• Part D Bringing Them Home and Link Up
• Part E General Comments (optional).

This DSS corresponds to Part B Primary Health Care component of the questionnaire. The OATSIH Services Reporting (OSR) data set specification (DSS) is used to collect service level information from primary health care, standalone substance use and Bringing Them Home and Link Up counselling service providers that received funding from OATSIH for the period 2010–11.

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2012. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services report, 2010–11: OATSIH Services Reporting—key results. Cat. no. IHW 79. Canberra: AIHW

Relational attributes