Introduction
In this section
Introduction
Health service
- Private health insurance by area health service, children 0-15 years, NSW, 2007-2008
- Difficulties getting health care when needing it by area health service, children 0-15 years, NSW, 2007-2008
- Emergency department presentations in the last 12 months by area health service, children 0-15 years, NSW, 2007-2008
- Emergency department rated as excellent, very good or good by area health service,parents or carers of children 0-15 years who presented to an emergency department in the last 12 months, NSW, 2007-2008
- Hospital admissions in last 12 months by area health service, children 0-15 years, NSW, 2007-2008
- Hospital care rated as excellent, very good or good by area health service, parents or carers of children 0-15 years who were admitted to hospital in the last 12 months, NSW, 2007-2008
- Difficulties getting health care when needing it by age,
- Difficulties getting health care when needing it by year,
- Emergency department care rated as excellent, very good or good by age
- Emergency department care rated as excellent, very good or good by year,
- Hospital care rated as excellent, very good or good by age
- Hospital care rated as excellent, very good or good by year
Dental services
Community health and early childhood services
Children
- Community health centre attendance in the last 12 months by area health service
- Community health centre care rated as excellent, very good or good by area health service
- Early childhood health centre attendance in the last 12 months by area health service
- Regularly seeing a baby or early childhood health nurse by area health service
- Home visit from child or community nurse in the last 12 months by area health service,
- Ever used personal health record by area health service
- Currently use personal health record by area health service
Introduction
Health-related behaviours contribute significantly to the quality of life a person will experience. Issues such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, and other conditions account for much of the burden of morbidity and mortality in later life.
Measuring and reporting health behaviours provides important information for planning public health programs and for evaluation, at the macro level, of the net gains of these programs. The health behaviours described in this session include; physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, overweight and obesity, sun protection, smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use.
Interpretation of apparent trends in some health indicators should be viewed with caution, because data come from a range of surveys that used different collection modes. They may reflect real changes in the prevalence of behaviours, or differences due to variations in sampling and data collection methods.
For details of the methods used for analysing data from the 2003 and 2004 NSW Health Surveys, and 2001 NSW Child Health Survey, refer to the Methods section.
- For more information:
- 2002-2005 Report on Adult Aboriginal Health from the New South Wales Population Health Survey
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- The information presented in this resource result from analyses of a variety of social and health focused data sets. These data sets originate from a variety of sources including Hunter New England Health, the NSW Department of Health, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The timing of the release of these data to third parties is controlled by the owner of these data. It is therefore possible for these organisations to publish data that they have not yet made available to Hunter New England Population Health for analysis and release. Users should therefore check the publications of these organisations as it is possible that they may have published even more up to date information on Hunter New England than those available in this resource. As this resource is an ongoing project, the indicators presented will be updated as soon as possible after the release of all data sets to Hunter New England Population Health.
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- Assistance from NSW Department of Health: This resource is modified from work undertaken for the production of the electronic and hard copy versions of the report Health of the people of NSW Report of the Chief Health Officer, (http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/) by the Centre for Epidemiology and Research of the NSW Department of Health. This work includes research and definition of indicators, programming framework, statistical programs, text and programming infrastructure for web publishing. Hunter New England Population Health has produced a local version of the report reflecting local concerns, where appropriate, and ensuring that only minimal changes were made in other parts of the text and presentation in the interest of consistency at a state level.
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- Hunter New England Population Health, Hunter New England Health, with assistance from Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Health and modified from the electronic report Health of the people of NSW Report of the Chief Health Officer, (http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/
- Last updated:
- 11 November 2009
- See NSW Data:
- To view state data, relating to this indicator go to the report Health of the people of NSW: Report of the Chief Health Officer. (http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/) or intranet version
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