Remoteness Area comparisons
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Notes
- This section reflects the number and proportion of health check patients who received a First Nations follow-up service in the 12 months following their health check, by the year that their health check was delivered.
- Some records from a small number of service providers have been excluded due to data quality concerns.
Geographic information
This analysis is based on the postcode of the patient’s given mailing address. As a result, the data may not always reflect where the person actually lived – particularly for people who use PO boxes. This is likely to impact some areas more than others and will also have a generally greater impact on the accuracy of smaller geographic areas.
Latest data
Among health check patients in 2020–21:
- Major cities had a follow-up percentage of 46% (37,000 patients with a follow-up).
- Inner regional areas had a follow-up percentage of 45% (24,900 patients).
- Outer regional areas had the lowest follow-up percentage, at 44% (25,600 patients).
- Remote areas had a follow-up percentage of 49% (9,000 patients).
- Very remote areas had the highest follow-up percentage, at 50% (12,600 patients).
Trends over time
Among health check patients from 2016–17 to 2020–21:
- All Remoteness Areas had a higher follow-up percentage for 2020–21 compared with 2016–17.
- Outer regional areas had the largest percentage-point increase in follow-up use, rising from 39% for 2016–17 to 44% for 2020–21 (21,900 patients to 25,600 for respective years).
- Remote areas had the smallest percentage-point increase in follow-up use, rising from 47% for 2016–17 to 49% for 2020–21 (9,700 patients to 9,000 for respective years).
Figure 22: Use of First Nations follow-up services among health check patients, by Remoteness Area, 2016–17 to 2020–21
A set of interactive graphs over 2 tabs. Refer to table FS06 in data tables. A long description is available below.
A set of interactive graphs over 2 tabs. The first is a bar graph showing the proportion of health check patients who had a follow-up within 12 months of their health check, by Remoteness Area, showing Very Remote Australia was the Remoteness Area with the highest follow-up percentage for 2020–21's patients. The second is a line graph showing follow-up percentage by Remoteness Area trending up between 2016–17 and 2020–18, then plateauing to 2020–21. Refer to table FS06 in data tables.