Report of the NSW Chief Health Officer: List of abbreviations

Report of the New South Wales Chief Health Officer

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ABS		Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACAM		Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring
ACIR		Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
ACS		Ambulatory care sensitive conditions
AGPS		Australian Government Printing Service
AHR		Airway hyper-responsiveness
AHS		NSW Area Health Service or health area
AHTAC		Australian Health Technology Advisory Committee
AIDS		Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIHW		Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
ARIA+		Accessibility/Remoteness Index for Australia-plus
ARMCANZ		Agricultural and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand
ASGC		Australian Standard Geographical Classification
ASHR		Australian Study of Health and Relationships
BFv		Barmah Forest virus
BMI		Body mass index
BSP		Back-scattering coefficient for particles
CATI		Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
CABG		Coronary artery bypass graft
CI		Confidence interval
COB		Country of birth
COPD		Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
DALY		Disability-adjusted life years
DEC		Department of Environment and Conservation
dmft		The number of deciduous (infant) teeth which are decayed, missing or have been filled due to caries (that is, tooth decay)
DMFT		The number of permanent (adult) teeth which are decayed, missing or have been filled due to caries (that is, tooth decay)
DTP		Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis combined vaccine (also called triple antigen vaccine)
ED		Emergency Department
ERP		Estimated resident population
ESRD		End-stage renal disease
F		Female
HARP		Health and Air Research Program
HIV		Human immunodeficiency virus
HOIST		Health Outcomes Information Statistical Toolkit (see Methods section)
ICD-9		International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision
ICD-9-CM		International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification
ICD-10		International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision
ICD-10-AM		International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, Australian Modification
IDDM		Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
IRMRC		NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre
IRSD		Index of relative socioeconomic disadvantage (a SEIFA index)
ISC		NSW Inpatients Statistics Collection or Admitted Patient Data Collection (see Methods section)
LGA		Local Government Area
LL 95% CI		Lower limit of 95% confidence interval for rate
M		Male
microg/dL		Micrograms per decilitre
mg/L		Milligrams per litre
MMR		Measles-mumps-rubella combined vaccine
NAC		National Asthma Campaign
NATSEM		National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
NDD		Notifiable Diseases Database (see Methods section)
NHS		Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health Survey (see Methods section)
NEPC		National Environment Protection Council
NHMRC		National Health and Medical Research Council
NIDDM		Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
No.		Number
NO₂		Nitrogen dioxide
NSW		New South Wales
NSWHS		New South Wales Health Surveys
OECD		Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
PM₁₀		Particulate matter <10 microns in diameter
PM_2.5		Particulate matter <10 microns in diameter
ppm		parts per million
RPI		Regional pollutant index
RRv		Ross River virus
SEIFA		Australian Bureau of Statistics Socioeconomic Indices for Areas
SES		Socioeconomic status
SLA		Statistical Local Area
SIDS		Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
STIs		Sexually transmitted infections
UL 95% CI		Upper limit of 95% confidence interval for rate
UVR		Ultraviolet radiation
WHO		World Health Organization
YLD		Years of healthy life lost due to disability
YLL		Years of life lost due to premature death

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Suggested citation:	Population Health Division, The Health of the people of New South Wales - Report of the Chief Health Officer. Sydney: NSW Department of Health. Available at: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/toc/pre_abbreviations.htm. Accessed (insert date of access).
Produced by:	Centre for Epidemiology and Research, Population Health Division, NSW Department of Health.
Last updated on:	21 November 2006

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