Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | AHPF PI 2.6.2–Net growth in health workforce, 2020 |
METEOR identifier: | 728380 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 13/10/2021 |
Description: | Full-time equivalent (FTE) employed health practitioners per 100,000 population (for the professions of medical practitioners, nurses/midwives, dental practitioners and allied health practitioners). |
Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2020 Health, Superseded 11/07/2023 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | For this indicator, the workforce for each profession is defined as those employed in Australia in the profession. This excludes those who are registered in the profession but are retired from regular work, working outside the profession, working in the profession but on extended leave of 3 months or more or working outside Australia. FTE number = Total hours worked by workforce ÷ Standard working week for selected professions. For the purpose of this indicator, a full-time working week has been defined as 40 hours for medical practitioners and as 38 hours for all other practitioners. Dental practitioners include dentists and allied dental practitioners (dental therapists, dental prosthetists, dental hygienists and oral health therapists). Allied health practitioners comprise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners, Chinese medicine practitioners, chiropractors, medical radiation practitioners, occupational therapists, optometrists, osteopaths, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists and psychologists. |
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Computation: | 100,000 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | FTE number in the workforce in the reference year |
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Denominator: | Australian population in the reference year |
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Disaggregation: | 2008–2018—State and territory by profession for the following professions:
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Comments: | Most recent data available for 2020 Australian Health Performance Framework reporting: 2018. The 2018 workforce data was sourced from the Australian Government Department of Health. Status of the calculation of full-time equivalent employed health practitioner rate for professions is:
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NNN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | 6. Efficiency & Sustainability |
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Reporting requirements: | Australian Health Performance Framework |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12–Waiting times for GPs, 2020 Health, Standard 13/03/2020 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12–Waiting times for GPs, 2022 Health, Standard 24/09/2021 |