The formal process, using registration procedures, under which a person is accepted by a hospital or an area or district health service facility as an inpatient.
A measure of the amount of disease associated with an exposure within a population. In a situation in which exposure to a given factor is believed to be a cause of a given disease, the population attributable fraction (or population aetiologic fraction) is the proportion of the disease in the total population that can be attributed to exposure to the factor.
Rate adjusted to take account of differences in age composition when rates for different populations are compared.
Rate for a specified age group. Both numerator and denominator refer to the same age group.
A response by the ambulance staff to a particular request for provision of care. Attendances are classified in several categories such as: cardiac, medical, surgical, trauma and routine attendance. Ambulance services mean services relating to the work of rendering first aid to, and the transport of, sick and injured persons.
Those for which hospitalisation is considered potentially avoidable through preventive care and early disease management, usually delivered through primary health care.
See UNDERLYING cause of death.
A person who has been in association with an infected person or a contaminated environment that may provide an opportunity to acquire the infection.
The computed interval with a given probability (for example, 95 per cent) that the true value of a variable such as a rate, mean or proportion, is contained within the interval.
An estimate of the proportion of a population that dies in a specified period. It is calculated by dividing the number of deaths in a specified period by the number at risk during that period (typically per year).
A person who is admitted to hospital and leaves on the same calendar day.
A division of general practice is a group of general practitioners who work together to improve health outcomes at the local level. Geographical boundaries of divisions are formalised by the federal Department of Health and Ageing.
All civilians aged 15 years and over who worked for pay or profit or worked without pay in a family business or farm.
Number of live births in an area during a year divided by the mid-year female population aged 15-44 in the same area in the same year.
Delivery of a child who did not, at any time after delivery, breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as a heartbeat.
see SEPARATION
The following drugs used for non-medicinal purposes: speed, cocaine, sleeping pills or tranquilisers, marijuana, analgesics, heroin, petrol sniffing, other inhalants, hallucinogens, designer drugs, and injecting of any illegal drug.
The rate at which new cases of a disorder occur in the population: that is, the number of new cases in a specified period, divided by the population at risk of the disorder in that period.
The death of a child before its first birthday.
All persons aged 15 years and over who are employed and unemployed.
The average number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age.
The birth of a child who after delivery, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as heartbeat. For calculation of perinatal death rates, includes only infants weighing at least 400 grams at birth or, where birth-weight is unknown, of at least 20 weeks gestation.
A geographical area under the responsibility of an incorporated local government council.
Health administration structure applicable in NSW since January 2011.
Death within 28 days of birth of any child who after delivery, breathed or showed any other evidence of life, such as a heartbeat.
Certification in an approved form of a disease listed in the Schedule 3 of Notifiable Diseases of the NSW Public Health Act 1991. In this report, notifications concern cases of communicable diseases reported by general practitioners, hospitals and pathology laboratories to the Director General of the NSW Ministry of Health.
The labour force expressed as a percentage of the civilian population aged 15 years and over.
Occurs following the arrival of the patient at the emergency department and is the earliest occasion of the patient being registered clerically or triaged. The patient may be subsequently provided with a service by a treating medical officer or nurse, and a provisional diagnosis is recorded. A 'presentation' is equal to a 'visit' or an 'attendance' at the emergency department.
A fetal or neonatal death.
Deaths occurring before the age 75 years, which could be avoided by prevention or clinical interventions.
See Ambulatory care sensitive conditions
The number of people with a disease at a given time (point prevalence) or in a specified period (period prevalence), divided by the number of people at risk from that disease.
The first ICD-9 or ICD-10 coding variable reported on the hospital separation form. It means the final diagnosis that best accounts for inpatient care.
The ratio of two rates: for example, the rate of disease in one population group divided by the rate in another population group.
Medical conditions to be notified under the provisions of the NSW Public Health Act 1991.
The formal process whereby an inpatient leaves a hospital or other area health service facility after completing an episode of care. For example, a discharge to home, discharge to another hospital or nursing home, or death.
The primary disease or injury causing the death. It is listed on a death certificate together with other diseases or injuries, which are classified as associated causes. These are all other conditions, diseases or injuries that were considered to have contributed to the death.
Persons aged 15 years and over who were not employed and who were actively seeking work, or waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been stood down.
The number of unemployed expressed as a percentage of the labour force (that is, employed and unemployed).
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACAM Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring
ACIR Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
ACS Ambulatory care sensitive conditions
AGPS Australian Government Printing Service
AHR Airway hyper-responsiveness
AHS NSW Area Health Service or health area
AHTAC Australian Health Technology Advisory Committee
AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
APDC NSW Admitted Patient Data Collection, previously called Inpatients Statistics Collection
ARIA Accessibility/Remoteness Index for Australia-plus
ARMCANZ Agricultural and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand
ASGC Australian Standard Geographical Classification
ASHR Australian Study of Health and Relationships
BFv Barmah Forest virus
BMI Body mass index
BSP Back-scattering coefficient for particles
CAT I Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
CABG Coronary artery bypass graft
CI Confidence interval
COB Country of birth
COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
DALY Disability-adjusted life years
DEC Department of Environment and Conservation
dmft The number of deciduous (infant) teeth which are decayed, missing or have been filled due to caries (that is, tooth decay)
DMFT The number of permanent (adult) teeth which are decayed, missing or have been filled due to caries (that is, tooth decay)
DTP Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis combined vaccine (also called triple antigen vaccine)
ED Emergency Department
ERP Estimated resident population
ESRD End-stage renal disease
F Female
HARP Health and Air Research Program
HIV Human immunodeficiency virus
HOIST Health Outcomes Information Statistical Toolkit
ICD-9 International Classification of Diseases,9th revision
ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification
ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases,10th revision
ICD-10-AM International Classification of Diseases,10th revision, Australian Modification
ICD-O-2 International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, second revision
ICD-O-3 International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, third revision
IRMRC NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre
IRSD Index of relative socioeconomic disadvantage (a SEIFA index)
ISC NSW Inpatients Statistics Collection or Admitted Patient Data Collection
LGA Local Government Area
LL 95% CI Lower limit of 95% confidence interval for rate
M Male
microg/dL Micrograms per decilitre
mg/L Milligrams per litre
MMR Measles-mumps-rubella combined vaccine
NAC National Asthma Campaign
NATSEM National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
NDD Notifiable Diseases Database (see Methods section)
NHS Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health Survey
NEPC National Environment Protection Council
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
No. Number
NO2 Nitrogen dioxide
NSW New South Wales
NSWPHS New South Wales Population Health Survey
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
PM10 Particulate matter <10 microns in diameter
PM2.5 Particulate matter <10 microns in diameter
ppm parts per million
RPI Regional pollutant index
RRv Ross River virus
SEIFA Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-Economic Indices for Areas
SES Socio-Economic status
SLA Statistical Local Area
SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
STIs Sexually transmissible infections
Type 1 Diabetes Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
Type 2 Diabetes Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
UL 95% CI Upper limit of 95% confidence interval for rate
UVR Ultraviolet radiation
WHO World Health Organization
YLD Years of healthy life lost due to disability
YLL Years of life lost