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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service individual client contacts cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term676946
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017
DSS type:Help on this termData Element Cluster
Scope:Help on this term

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services individual client contacts cluster describes the number of individual client contacts made by each type of worker from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service that received funding from the Australian Government through the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH).

The data elements are used together to provide a count of the number of client contacts by type of worker by the sex of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services clients.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services individual client contacts

 MaleFemaleTotal
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers (AHW) excluding transport without health care provisionN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
DoctorsN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
NursesN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Substance misuse workersN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Social and emotional wellbeing staff (please specify)N[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Medical specialists/other allied health professionals (please specify)N[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Dentists/dental therapistsN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Dental support workers (e.g. dental assistants, dental technicians)N[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Sexual health workersN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]
Traditional healersN[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]

Transport workers (e.g. AHW/field officer/driver contacts)

    - taking clients to see health professionals who DO NOT work for this service

      - taking clients to see health professionals who DO work for this service

N[NNN]

N[NNN]

N[NNN]

N[NNN]

N[NNN]

N[NNN]

Contacts with other staff members (please specify)N[NNN]N[NNN]N[NNN]

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

A health-care contact occurs when a health professional sees an individual client or provides advice over the phone. A transport contact occurs when a client is given transport by the service to see either a health professional working for the service, or another health professional.

Includes:

  • staff and visiting health professionals
  • contacts involving direct provision of health care, including but not limited to, for sickness, injury, counselling, health education and screening
  • all contacts involving transport (note: where an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander  worker (AHW) provides transport and health care as part of one contact, this is counted as an AHW contact. Where an AHW provides transport only in one contact, this is counted as a transport worker contact)

Excludes:

  • contacts with groups
  • residential care
  • administration contacts with clients e.g. receptionist making appointments for clients
Collection methods:Help on this term

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service provides counts of male, female and total client contacts by type of worker, as detailed in the Scope, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services individual client contacts table. The total client contacts may include clients for which sex was not known or not reported.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services individual client contacts cluster
  • Indigenous, Standard 16/09/2014
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2012


Metadata items in this Data Set SpecificationHelp on this term

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Person—sex, code N

DSS specific information:

This data element is used to determine the sex of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service's clients.

Mandatory2
-Service provider organisation—contact worker type, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services worker type code N[N]Mandatory13
-Service provider organisation—contact worker type, text X[X(199)]

Conditional obligation:

This data element is used to collect further information about social and emotional wellbeing staff, medical specialists, allied health professionals, and other staff  within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service.

Conditional99
-Service provider organisation—number of service contacts, total N[NNNNN]

DSS specific information:

This data element is used to collect the number of individual client contacts made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service workers.

Mandatory99
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