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

This dataset, released November 2018, contains data relating to male 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: http://www.phidu.torrens.edu.au/current/data/sha-aust/notes/phidu_data_sources_notes.pdf on the data.

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

Please note:

• AURIN has spatially enabled the original data: http://phidu.torrens.edu.au/social-health-atlases/data#social-health-atlas-of-australia-population-health-areas.
• "*" - Indicates statistically significant, at the 95% confidence level.
• "**" - Indicates statistically significant, at the 99% confidence level.
• "~" - Indicates modelled estimates have Relative Root Mean Square Errors (RRMSEs) from 0.25 to 0.50 and should be used with caution.
• "~~" - Indicates modelled estimates have RRMSEs greater than 0.50 but less than 1 and are considered too unreliable for general use.

• '?' - Indicates modelled estimates are considered too unreliable.

• Blank cell - Indicates data was not shown/not applicable/not published/not available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data).

Abbreviation Information:

• "ASR per #" - Indirectly age-standardised rate per specified population.
• "SR" - Indirectly age-standardised ratio.