Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269666 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | A person's waist circumference measured half way between the inferior margin of the last rib and the crest of the ilium in the mid-axillary plane. |
Context: | Public health, health care and clinical settings: Originally used in the calculation of Waist-to-hip ratio which requires the measurement of hip circumference and waist circumference as a predictor of obesity-related morbidity and mortality. More recently it has been used in its own right as an indicator of risk associated with excess abdominal fat. |
Person—waist circumference
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Person |
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Definition: | A human being. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | Prior to 13 March 2018, the definition of the ‘Person’ Object class was ‘A human being, whether man, woman or child’. From 13 March 2018, the definition was edited by removing the words ‘…whether man, woman or child’ so that a person is defined as ‘A human being’. This amendment was undertaken to align the definition of a person with the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, which recognise that there are sex and gender types that are not exclusively male or female. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd |
Reference documents: | Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016, https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/ ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, 2016. ABS Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 26 July 2016, http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Waist circumference |
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Definition: | The distance around the human body between the ribs and the hips. |
Property group: | Physical characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Relational attributes
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Person—waist circumference (measured), total centimetres NN[N].N Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
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