First medical indemnity National Data Collection Report, public sector: January to June 2003
This report describes the development of and presents the first six months' data from the newly developed national collection of data on medical indemnity claims in the public sector.The medical indemnity national collection (MINC) includes both claims that have materialised (eg where legal action has commenced) and potential claims (ie matters considered likely to materialise into a claim, where a reserve has been set). The data in this report cover claims current at any time during the reporting period 1 January to 30 June 2003.
CSTDA NMDS tables prepared for the CSTDA annual public report 2002-03
In July 2004 the Community and Disability Services Conference approved the release of the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement Annual Public Report 2002-03 (NDA 2004). By agreement with the National Disability Administrators, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare prepared a set of tables to be used in Chapter 4 of that report. The present brief report contains the tables supplied for that purpose, for the use of those readers requiring the tables underpinning the text and figures in the CSTDA Annual Public Report. These tables are based on the first six months of available data from the 2002-03 Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set (CSTDA NMDS). Current until 17 December 2005.
Children with disabilities in Australia
What is known about children with disabilities in Australia, in terms of their characteristics, and the needs and circumstances of them and their families? What is known about the services, benefits and assistance provided to them? The report Children with Disabilities uses a range of information sources to explore these questions and present for the first time, an overview of this important group in Australia.
Disability and its relationship to health conditions and other factors
Disability experience is a complex interaction between the health condition and environmental and personal factors. People's health is increasingly conceptualised in terms of their quality of life, what activities they can do, in what areas of life they are able to participate as they wish, and what long-term supports they need for living in the community.This report examines some of the inter-relationships among components of disability, health conditions and other related factors, as well as some aspects of measurement. The report provides prevalence estimates of significant diseases and health conditions associated with disability and estimates the likelihood and severity of disability associated with those diseases and health conditions. It also presents results of analyses that explore the relationship between severity of disability, health conditions, and personal and environmental factors.
Disability support services 2002-03: the first six months of data from the Commonwealth State/Territory disability agreement National Minimum Data Set
This report is the first AIHW publication dealing with data from the first year (2002-03) of the redeveloped Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set collection (CSTDA NMDS). This report focuses on service users and their characteristics and service type outlets funded to deliver CSTDA services, within the first six months of 2003. Previous reports since 1995 have dealt with 'snapshot' data from a single day.
Carers in Australia: assisting frail older people and people with a disability
This report on informal care is a joint initiative of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Its genesis was an AIHW analysis of the likely future impact of certain social trends including, but not limited to, a reduced willingness of women to substitute unpaid caring work for paid employment.Building on this earlier work, the present report uses the results of the 1998 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers to present a picture of informal care in Contemporary Australia - who are the primary carers, who do they assist, and what does caring involve? It explores the impact of caring work and patterns of informal service use with informal care.
Disability prevalence and trends
This report updates and refines prevalence estimates of five main disability groups in Australia - intellectual, psychiatric, sensory/speech, acquired brain injury and physical/diverse. The groups are defined and explained in terms of Australian and international definitions of disability, and of available Australian statistical data.Recent trends in the reported prevalence of disability are critically reviewed and changes in population patterns of disability prevalence in Australia are examined.
Communication restrictions - The experience of people with a disability in the community
This data briefing explores the relationship between communication restrictions and other outcomes for people with a disability.
ICF Australian user guide version 1.0
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) supports the collection of data on functioning and disability, in areas including population health and disability surveys, disability and aged care services, rehabilitation and allied health services. The AIHW, as a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization, has been involved for the last decade with the preparation of the ICF. The Australian ICF User Guide is intended to be a complement to the ICF classification itself, to assist Australian users to understand the classification, to inform them about current and potential applications and to provide advice on 'getting started'. It is designed for those wanting to find out more about the practical use of the ICF in Australia or planning to use the ICF.
Disability, the use of aids and the role of the environment
The environment has a direct impact on the experience of disability, either as a positive or enabling force, improving the opportunities for people with disabilities to undertake activities and participate in the economic and social world, or a barrier to these pursuits.This report provides a broad-scale picture of the association between disability and the environment in Australia, by providing information on some of the environmental factors important to people with disabilities in Australia. These environmental factors include the use of aids and equipment, support arrangement in educational and workplace settings, access to public transport, assistance with daily activities, and home modifications.
Disability support services 2002: national data on services provided under the Commonwealth/State disability agreement
This report presents data on services directly provided or funded by governments under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA).The report describes the data collection process, and provides details of the service outlets providing CSDA-funded services. It also shows the numbers of consumers using the services and some of their characteristics.The 2002 collection is the final one to be based on 'snapshot' day numbers. Future reports will be based on a redeveloped collection with on-going, full-year data.
Australia's national disability services data collection: redeveloping the Commonwealth-state/territory disability agreement National Minimum Data Set
The Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement Minimum Data Set (CSDA MDS) has provided data on Australia's national program of disability support services since 1994.By 1999, it had become obvious that changes in the nature of service provision, information needs and technology in use in the disability field had created a need for review and redevelopment of the collection.This report focuses on the processes undertaken to redevelop the collection, and outlines how the new data will satisfy a far wider range of information needs relating to this major national program.
Disability support services: revisions to CSDA MDS data and reports 1996 to 2000
Each year since 1995, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has published a report on disability support services in Australia based on the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement Minimum Data Set (CSDA MDS). Since the publication of reports for each of the years 1996 to 2000, there have been some important updates and other minor revisions to the final data sets for each year.This report outlines all revisions and includes tables where there have been substantial changes and lists those where there are minor changes.
Continence aids assistance scheme data dictionary version 1.0
The Continence Aids Assistance Scheme (CAAS) Data Dictionary has been developed by the AIHW on behalf of the Department of Health and Ageing. The CAAS assists people of working age who have permanent incontinence resulting from a permanent disability, to defray the cost of continence management. This Dictionary provides definitions for the information collected from applicants, required from health professionals involved in assessing applicants, and used by those managing the Scheme. Careful attention has been given to aligning the definitions in this Dictionary with relevant national standards in the National Community Services Data Dictionary and National Health Data Dictionary.
Disability support services 2002, first national results on services provided under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement
This report informs Australians about services funded under the CSDA for people with disabilities in Australia. These first results are published on the AIHW web-site. A more comprehensive publication will follow during 2003, to be published both electronically on the AIHW web-site and as a printed report.
History of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
This data briefing provides information on some seven years of work by the Institute, as the Australian Collaborating Centre, participating with other World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centres in the preparation of the ICF. It provides an historical complement to Data Briefing No. 20, which outlines the broad features of the ICF.
Unmet need for disability services: effectiveness of funding and remaining shortfalls
Australian governments committed $519 million additional funding to disability services over the two years 2000-01 and 2001-02, in recognition of unmet needs in the community.This publication reports the findings of a study the AIHW was commissioned to undertake on the effectiveness of this funding, particularly in providing additional services and on the remaining level of unmet need in the community.
Disability support services 2001, national data on services provided under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement
Disability Support Services 2001: National Data on Services Provided under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement presents data on services directly provided or funded by governments under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA).The report describes the data collection process, consumers, their characteristics and the service outlets providing CSDA-funded services. Estimates of consumers were made possible by use of the statistical linkage key, which adjusts for people using more than one service on the snapshot day. Trends in service usage from 1996 to 2001 are also included.
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
In May 2001 the new Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) was endorsed by the World Health Assembly (WHO 2001). This marked the finalisation of a revision of the ICIDH (WHO 1980), a process that involved several years of redevelopment and testing by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Collaborating Centres, including the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The ICF has been developed for use in describing functioning and disability. It is now recognised as a core member of the WHO family of health-related classifications, complementary to the ICD, which focuses on diseases and health conditions.
Disability support services 2001: first national results on services provided under the CSDA
Disability Support Services 2001: First National Results on Services Provided under the CSDA informs Australians about services funded under the CSDA for people with disabilities in Australia. These first results are published primarily on the AIHW web-site. A more comprehensive publication will follow during 2002, to be published both electronically on the AIHW web-site and as a printed report.
Disability support services 2000, national data on services provided under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement
Disability Support Services 2000: National Data on Services Provided Under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement presents data on services directly provided or funded by governments under the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA).The report describes the data collection process, consumers, their characteristics and the service outlets they used. Estimates fo consumers were possible by the use of a statistical linkage key to adjust for people receiving more than one type of service on the one day. For the first time, the report includes information on trends since 1996.
Data starter, issue 1 December 2000: a project of the disability data reference advisory group
The Data Starter aims to help those who use or intend to use disability data, for example, people with disability, staff of non-government organisations, government officials, researchers and students. The Starter can be used to help find relevant existing data collections, understand and interpret the data, and give a guide for presenting the data to suit a particular purpose.
Disability support services 2000: first national results on services provided under the CSDA
This summary gives first national results of the 2000 collection in terms of the people receiving services on a single day and of the outlets providing services. It also describes the annual data collection used to obtain the data, some of the important definitions for terms used in collecting the data and gives information about response rates. This is an Internet only release. More detailed information from the 2000 collection will be included in a report to be published by the Institute in mid-2001.
Open employment services for people with disabilities 1998-99
This report presents national data on open employment services for people with a disability and the clients of these services in 1998-99. It details the characteristics of open employment clients and examines their employment and support experiences. Over 34,000 clients were supported by open employment services in 1998-99, with about half of these clients working at some time during the period. The average worker was employed for 33 weeks and, while employed, worked 24 hours per week. The data were collected via the National Information Management System (NIMS) for open employment services.
Disability and ageing Australian population patterns and implications
Australia's population is ageing and there is growing interest in the implications of this trend. Rates of disability in Australia are increasing, due in large part to the ageing population, and survival into old age is now a reality for many people who have a lifelong disability. These patterns are creating challenges for the disability and aged care services systems. This report brings together information on trends in population ageing, disability prevalence, informal care, patterns of service use and need for assistance. The report will be an essential information source for service planners and policy makers.