Health Statistics The Australian Experience and Opportunities

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health; accountability; Australia; Australian health system; cause of death; continuity of care; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); coronial investigation; COVID-19; cross-jurisdiction; data; data gaps; data linkage; data sovereignty; dementia; dental caries; disability; disability identification; disease expenditure; general practice; governance; health; health expenditure; health expenditure policy; health expenditure projections; health outcomes; health service use; health services; health services research; health statistics; health statistics, disability statistics; health surveys; Indigenous; Indigenous health measurement; inequalities; integration; International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF); last year of life; life expectancy; linkage; management use of information; medication data; medication safety; mental; mental health; misleading statistics; mortality data; oral health; pandemic; periodontal disease; pharmacoepidemiology; policy development; prescribing; primary health care; quality improvement; quality use of medicines; real-world data; real-world evidence; services; suicide; tooth loss; veterans; welfare; wellbeing
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 Health statistics have progressed dramatically in Australia since the 1980s when the Australian Government created the (now) Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The 12 papers in this Special Issue describe developments across a diverse range of topics, as well as providing an overview of the scope of health statistics in Australia and describing some ongoing gaps and problems. The papers will be of interest to international readers seeking to improve statistics about their health systems. Health statistics need to respect individuals' personal information, be based on common data standards, and have adequate resourcing and committed staffing . The Australian experience provides valuable insights and examples. Australians will benefit from a comprehensive account of what has been achieved and what remains to be addressed. The papers in the Special Issue demonstrate the importance of continuing commitment to the statistical effort. Authors were chosen because of their known expertise in their respective fields.