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Abbreviation

Title

AATSIHS

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACARA

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

ACCHO

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

ACD

Australian Cancer Database

ACHS

Australian Council of Healthcare Standards

ACIR

Australian Childhood Immunisation Register

ACT

Australian Capital Territory

AGPAL

Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited

AHF

Aboriginal Health Forum

AHMAC

Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council

AHS

Australian Health Survey

AHW

Aboriginal Health Worker

AIC

Australian Institute of Criminology

AIDS

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AIHW

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

AIR

Australian Immunisation Register

AMS

Aboriginal Medical Service

AMSANT

Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory

ANFPP

Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program

ANZDATA

Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry

AODTS-NMDS

Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set

APDC

Admitted Patient Data Collection

ARF

Acute Rheumatic Fever

ATSIHW

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker

BBV

Blood Borne Virus

BEACH

Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health data (Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney) (see GP Survey data)

BMI

Body Mass Index

CAI

Computer Assisted Interview

CanDAD

Cancer Data and Aboriginal Disparities

CATSI

Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

CBDS

Child Dental Benefits Scheme

CDCP

United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centre for Health Statistics

CDEP

Community Development Employment Projects

Census

Census of Population and Housing

CHC

Council of Australian Governments Health Council

CHCI

Child Health Check Initiative Dental data

COPD

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

CP

Child Protection National Minimum Data Set (Child Protection Collection)

CPI

Consumer Price Index

CVD

Cardiovascular Disease

DEP

Deadly Ears Program

DIC

National Deaths in Custody Program

DMFT

Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth (Adult—permanent)

dmft

decayed, missing, filled teeth (Infant—deciduous)

DoH

Australian Government Department of Health data

DSNMDS

Disability Services National Minimum Data Set

DUM

Drug Use Monitoring in Australia Survey

DUMA

Drug Use Monitoring in Australia

ENT

Ear Nose and Throat specialist

ESKD

end-stage kidney disease

ESRD

end-stage renal disease

FASD

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

FTE

Full-Time Equivalent

GAS

Group A Streptococcal Bacterium

GDM

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

GP

general practitioner

GPA+

See QPA

GPMP

General Practitioner Management Plan

GPS

Department of Health General Practice Statistics

GP Survey data

Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) survey data

GSS

General Social Survey

HbA1C

glycated haemoglobin (A1c) (A measurement that acts as an indicator of time-averaged blood glucose levels used as a marker of long-term diabetes control)

Health Survey

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey

HED

Health Expenditure Database

HESC

Higher Education Statistics Collection

HIB

Haemophilus influenzae type B

HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HIVR

National HIV Registry

HPF

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework

HPV

Human Papilloma Virus

IAS

Indigenous Advancement Strategy

IAHP

Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme

IHD

Ischaemic Heart Disease

IPD

Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

ISHP

Indigenous-specific health service

JJ NMDS

Juvenile Justice National Minimum Dataset

KRT

Kidney Replacement Therapy

LHNs

Local Hospital Networks

Life tables

Life tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

LSAC

Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

LSIC

Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children

MBS

Medicare Benefits Schedule

MBS

Medicare data

NACCHO

National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

NAGATSIHID

National Advisory Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information and Data

NAHA

National Affordable Housing Agreement

NAPLAN

National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy

NATSIHS

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey

NATSIHSC

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Standing Committee

NATSINSAP

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition Strategy and Action Plan

NATSIPDS

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Drug Strategy

NATSIS

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey

NATSISS

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey

NBCSP

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

NCMH

National Community Mental Health Care Database

NCSP

National Cervical Screening Program

NDA

National Disability Agreement

NEHS

National Eye Health Survey

NESWT

National Elective Surgery Waiting Times Data Collection

NHMD

National Hospital Morbidity Database

NHMP

National Homicide Monitoring Program

NHMRC

National Health and Medical Research Council

NHPA

National Health Performance Authority

NHS

National Health Survey

NHWDS

National Health Workforce Data Set

NIAA

National Indigenous Australians Agency

NIEHS

National Indigenous Eye Health Survey

NIP

National Immunisation Program

NIRA

National Indigenous Reform Agreement

nKPI

national Key Performance Indicators (Indigenous primary health care organisations)

NMD

National Mortality Database

NMDS

national minimum data set

NMHED

National Mental Health Establishments Database

NNAPEDCD

National Non-admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NNDSS

National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System

NOPSAD

National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection

NPC

National Prisoner Census

NPDC

National Perinatal Data Collection

NPESU

National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit

NPHDC

National Prisoner Health Data Collection

NPHED

National Public Hospitals Establishment Database

NSSC

National Schools Statistics Collection

NSW

New South Wales

NT

Northern Territory

NTC

National Tobacco Campaign

NTRAI dental

Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment Dental Data Collection

NTRAI, ENT

Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment audiology and ear, nose and throat (ENT) data collections

NZ

New Zealand

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

ORIC

Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations

OSR

Online Services Report data collection

PATS

Patient Assistance Travel Schemes

PBAC

Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee

PBS

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

PCIS

Primary Care Information System

PHC

Primary Health Care

PHN

Primary Health Network

PIP

Practice Incentives Program

PMC

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

PPH

Potentially preventable hospitalisations

PYLL

Potential Years of Life Lost

QAAMS

The Quality Assurance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical Services program

QIC

Quality Improvement Council

Qld

Queensland

QPA

Quality Practice Accreditation - previously known as GPA+

RACGP

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

RHD

National Rheumatic Heart Disease data collection

RHOF

Department of Health Rural Health Outreach Fund

RPBS

Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits

RWA NMDS

Rural Workforce Agencies National Minimum Data Set

SA

South Australia

SAR, DASR

Service Activity Report and Drug and Alcohol Service Report

SCRGSP

Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision

SEIFA

Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas

SEW

Survey of Education and Work

SHSC

Specialist Homelessness Services Collection

SIDS

sudden infant death syndrome

SLA

Statistical Local Area

STI

sexually transmissible infections

SUDI

sudden unexpected death in infancy

TAFE

Technical and Further Education

Tas

Tasmania

TCA

Team Care Arrangement

Trachoma

Trachoma surveillance report

VAED

Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset

VEMD

Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset

VET

Vocational education and training

VET TPC

National Vocational Education Training Provider Collection

VET TSC

National Vocational Education Training in Schools Collection

VI

Visual Impairment

Vic

Victoria

VII

Voluntary Indigenous Identifier

VOS

Department of Health Visiting Optometrist Scheme data

WA

Western Australia

WAACHS

Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey

WHO

World Health Organization