National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14–People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers, 2017
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Progress measure |
| Short name: | PI 14–People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers, 2017 |
| METEOR identifier: | 630020 |
| Registration status: |
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| Description: | Proportion of people who required treatment but deferred that treatment due to cost, by type of health service. |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2017) Health, Superseded 30/01/2018 |
| Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
| Quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14-People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers, 2017 QS Health, Standard 31/01/2017 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | 15 years |
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| Computation description: | Population is limited to persons aged 15 years and over. Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person. Presented as a percentage. 95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors calculated for rates. |
| Computation: | 100 × (numerator ÷ denominator) calculated separately for each type of healthcare (GP, medical specialist, dental care, prescribed medication, pathology or imaging tests). |
| Numerator: | (a) Number of persons who reported delaying or not seeing a GP in the last 12 months because of cost. (b) Number of persons who reported delaying or not seeing a medical specialist in the last 12 months because of cost. (c) Number of persons who reported delaying or not getting a prescription filled for medication in the last 12 months because of cost. (d) Number of persons who reported delaying or not seeing a dental practitioner in the last 12 months because of cost. (e) Number of persons who reported delaying or not getting pathology or imaging tests in the last 12 months because of cost. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| Denominator: | (a) Total number of persons who saw a GP or needed to see a GP but didn’t in the last 12 months. (b) Total number of persons who received a written referral to a specialist by a GP in the last 12 months. (c) Total number of persons who saw a dental practitioner or who needed to see a dental practitioner but didn’t in the last 12 months. (d) Total number of persons who received a prescription for medication from a GP in the last 12 months. (e) Total number of persons who had a pathology or imaging test or who needed a pathology or imaging test but didn’t get one in the last 12 months. |
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| Disaggregation: | 2015–16—State and Territory, by type of healthcare (GP, prescribed medication, i.e. measures (a) and (c)). 2015–16—State and Territory, by type of healthcare (medical specialist, dental care, pathology or imaging tests, i.e. measures (b), (d) and (e)) (not reported). 2015–16—State and Territory, by type of healthcare (GP, medical specialist, dental care, prescribed medication, pathology or imaging tests, i.e. measures (a) to (e)), by (not reported):
2015–16—Nationally by type of healthcare (GP, medical specialist, dental care, prescribed medication, pathology or imaging tests, i.e. measures (a) to (e)), by (all not reported):
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2017 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2015–16 (total population: PEx); 2012–13 (Indigenous: AATSIHS). Non-Indigenous data from PEx may not be directly comparable with data for Indigenous people from AATSIHS. Information about dental practitioners is obtained by asking survey respondents about services received from a dental professional. Examples of dental professionals given to survey respondents in the questionnaire are dentists, dental hygienists and dental specialists. The intention is that survey respondents should provide information about all dental professionals, which may additionally include such practitioners as dental therapists, oral health therapists, and dental prosthetists, as well as specialists such as orthodontists, periodontists and endontists. Pathology and imaging tests exclude those had while in hospital. Imaging tests also exclude those for dental work. Some survey respondents may report pathology and imaging as a referral to a medical specialist. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | N[NN.NN] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | Frequency 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: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14–People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers, 2016
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 14–People deferring access to selected healthcare due to financial barriers, 2018
See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 32–Patient satisfaction/experience, 2017
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