Technical notes

Defining extreme weather events

The Bureau of Meteorology defines extreme or severe weather as “potentially hazardous or dangerous weather that is not solely related to severe thunderstorms, tropical cyclones or bushfires” (BoM 2022a). In this report we have utilised administrative health and mortality datasets as well as BoM weather data, defining extreme weather or related natural hazards as extreme heat, extreme cold, rain or storms and bushfires.

Glossary

Injury – Glossary

Abbreviations

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACCD

Australians Consortium for Classification Development

AIHW

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

ARDD

Australian Road Deaths Database

BITRE

Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics

DALY

Disability Adjusted Life Years

DAWE

Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment

ED

Emergency Department

EDDC

Emergency Department Data Collection

EHF

Excess Heat Factor

HHISS

Heat Health Information Surveillance System

ICD

International Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems

IPCC

International Panel on Climate Change

MBS

Medicare Benefits Scheme

MCoD

Multiple Cause of Death

NAEC

Non-Admitted Emergency Care

NCD

National Crash Database

NCIS

National Coronial Information System

NDS

National Dataset for Compensation-based Statistics

NHISI AA

National Integrated Health Services Information Analysis Asset

NHMD

National Hospital Morbidity Database

NMD

National Mortality Database

NNAPEDCD

National Non-Admitted Patient Emergency Department Care Database

NSW

New South Wales

PBS

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

POLAR

Population Level Analysis and Reporting

QLD

Queensland

SNOMED-CT

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms

SWA

Safe Work Australia

UCoD

Underlying Cause of Death

VEMD

Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset

WHO

World Health Organization