Number of people aged 15 years and over who accessed particular health services in the past 12 months (for hospital admissions) or 2 weeks (for other health services)
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Definition
Proportion of people who accessed health services by health status
Indicator Summary
Categories of self-assessed health status are excellent, very good, good, fair and poor. These should be combined into two categories for reporting: excellent/very good/good and fair/poor.
For the service type admitted hospitalisations, access is recorded based on the last 12 months. For all other services access is recorded based on the last 2 weeks.
Rates are directly age-standardised.
Limited to …
Nationally and by state and territory, by service type, by:
- self-assessed health status
- self-assessed health status by Indigenous status
- self-assessed health status by remoteness
- self-assessed health status by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles
Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.
Calculation rules
- Description
Categories of self-assessed health status are excellent, very good, good, fair and poor. These should be combined into two categories for reporting: excellent/very good/good and fair/poor.
For the service type admitted hospitalisations, access is recorded based on the last 12 months. For all other services access is recorded based on the last 2 weeks.
Rates are directly age-standardised.
Limited to people aged 15 years or over.
The service types to be reported are admitted hospitalisations; casualty/ outpatients; GP and/ or specialist doctor consultations; consultations with other health professional; dental consultation.
Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.
Presented as a percentage; 95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors are calculated for rates.
Number of people aged 15 years and over who accessed particular health services in the past 12 months (for hospital admissions) or 2 weeks (for other health services)
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- Data Element
- Person—age, total years N[NN]
Population aged 15 years and over
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- Data Element
- Person—age, total years N[NN]
Nationally and by state and territory, by service type, by:
- self-assessed health status
- self-assessed health status by Indigenous status
- self-assessed health status by remoteness
- self-assessed health status by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles
Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.
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- Data Element
- Person—age, total years N[NN]
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