List of abbreviations
| 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 | |
| APDC | NSW Admitted Patient Data Collection, previously called Inpatients Statistics Collection (see Methods section) | |
| 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 havebeen filled due to caries (that is, tooth decay) | |
| DMFT | The number of permanent (adult) teeth which are decayed, missing or havebeen 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 | |
| PM2.5 | 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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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: www.health.nsw.gov.au/publichealth/chorep/. Accessed (insert date of access).
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Last updated on 19 December 2008
