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Example of Australian Data Sources that might be used to establish health status of regional population |
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| Routine National Surveillance Data |
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| Census data |
Age, gender, socioeconomic index, ethnicity, etc. |
| Morbidity and Mortality |
National Death Index, Burden of Disease Studies[44] |
| Regular surveys |
National Health Survey, ABS Cause of Death statistics etc. |
| Administrative data sets |
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| Hospital data bases |
Inpatient minimum datasets, Outpatient minimum datasets |
| Medicare data |
Medical services MBS (Medical Benefits Schedule) on-line data, |
| Prescription pharmaceuticals PBS (pharmaceutical benefits schedule) online |
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| Specialist insurers |
Veterans Affairs, Transport Accident, WorkCover, etc. |
| Disease/condition specific, cohort data |
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| Disease Registers |
Diabetes, Cancer, joint replacement register |
| Special Surveys, including |
Screening surveys; Region-specific (e.g., Busselton, Dubbo cohort studies), Record-linkage studies, etc. |
| Primary care data sets |
Divisions of general practice; Primary care collaboratives |
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Note: Full references to all data sources available through correspondence with authors | |
Segal et al. Implementation Science 2008 3:35 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-3-35 |
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