PHIDU - Emergency Department Presentations - Semi-Urgent (PHA) 2017-2018

This dataset, released June 2020, contains Emergency department presentations for semi-urgent by principal diagnosis, 2017/18. Presentations include Semi-urgent presentations - Total; Semi-urgent presentations for certain infectious and parasitic diseases; Semi-urgent presentations for mental and behavioural disorders; Semi-urgent presentations for diseases of the circulatory system; Semi-urgent presentations for diseases of the respiratory system; Semi-urgent presentations for diseases of the digestive system; Semi-urgent presentations for diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue; Semi-urgent presentations for diseases of the genitourinary system; Semi-urgent presentations for injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes; Semi-urgent presentations for factors influencing health status and contact with health services; Semi-urgent presentations for other diseases/ conditions, 2017/18.

The data is by Population Health Area (PHA) 2016 geographic boundaries based on the 2016 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).

Population Health Areas, developed by PHIDU, are comprised of a combination of whole SA2s and multiple (aggregates of) SA2s, where the SA2 is an area in the ABS structure.

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 State and Territory health departments for 2017/18; and the average of the ABS Estimated Resident Population, 30 June 2017 and 2018.

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available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data) was removed.It has been replaced by by Blank cells.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.