PHIDU - Admissions - Principal Diagnosis: Persons (PHN) 2016-2017

This dataset, released November 2018, contains data relating to hospital admissions during 2016-2017 by principal diagnosis of: Parasitic disease, cancer, Blood-organ disease, metabolic disease, mental health disease, nervous system disease, eye disease, ear disease, circulatory system disease, respiratory system disease, digestive system disease, skin disease, musculoskeletal disease, genitourinary system disease, perinatal condition, congenital deformations and external causes. The data is by Primary Health Network (PHN) 2017 geographic boundaries based on the 2016 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).

There are 31 PHNs set up by the Australian Government. Each network is controlled by a board of medical professionals and advised by a clinical council and community advisory committee. The boundaries of the PHNs closely align with the Local Hospital Networks where possible.

For more information please see the data source notes on the data.

Source: Compiled by PHIDU using data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, supplied on behalf of Stateand Territory health departments for 2016/17; and the ABS Estimated Resident Population, 30 June 2016.

AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Data that was not shown/not applicable/not published/not available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data) was removed.It has been replaced by by Blank cells. For other keys and abbreviations refer to PHIDU Keys.