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released: 3 Nov 2011 author: AIHW

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's activities are guided by legislative and government requirements, as well as its strategic directions, work plan and contractual obligations. For the 2010-11 year, this annual report describes these activities with reference to these requirements. The report summarises the AIHW's performance against various reporting obligations and highlights significant outputs during the year that help to provide Australians with quality, nationally-consistent health and welfare information.

ISSN 1321-4985; ISBN 978-1-74249-219-3; Cat. no. AUS 144; 266pp.; FREE

Highlights

During 2010–11, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare saw the culmination of work in the following areas of activity:

Information for policy and related purposes

New developments and renewal

  • development of the new Specialist Homelessness Services collection
  • pilot testing of the draft Mental Health Interventions Classification using a range of data collection methodologies, including iPads
  • production of the first analysis of information on patients with dementia from the new Aged Care Funding Instrument, and on older people leaving hospital assisted by the Transition Care Program
  • completion of a review of the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set
  • revision of the presentation of data in the Cancer in Australia: an overview 2010 publication and its companion Cancer in brief 2010 publication
  • production of user-friendly, accessible online snapshots of information and statistics on asthma and on male health
  • an independent stakeholder review of Australian Hospital Statistics publications to further develop the AIHW's suite of hospitals products

Quality and standards

  • development of an on-line hospitals data validation tool, Validata®, to improve timeliness and quality of national hospital statistics products
  • development of methodologies and infrastructure that allow increasingly large and complex data linkage projects to be undertaken
  • promulgation of data standards throughout the health and community services data communities
  • release of the National Indicator Catalogue containing all COAG performance indicators and their specifications

Further information on these highlights is provided in the 'In brief' section and in Chapter 1 Our performance and Chapter 3 Our operating units.

Recommended citation

AIHW 2011. Annual report 2010-11. AIHW annual report. Cat. no. AUS 144. Canberra: AIHW.