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Definition

Expenditure in Australian dollars on health care that cannot be directly related to programs operated by a particular establishment and is not related to patient transport services, public health and monitoring services, central and statewide support services or central administrations, for a financial year.

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Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Total Australian currency N[N(8)] ".
Data Type Currency
Format N[N(8)]
Maximum character length 9

Comments

Guide for use:

To be provided at the state level.

Other:

Any other indirect health care expenditure as defined above not catered for in the following categories: Patient transport services; Public health and monitoring services; Central and statewide support services; Central administrations.

This might include such things as family planning and parental health counselling services and expenditure incurred in the registration of notifiable diseases and other medical information.

Record values up to hundreds of millions of dollars, rounded to the nearest whole dollar.

Origin:
National Health Data Committee

Comments:
Resources Working Party members were concerned about the possibility that double-counting of programs at the hospital and again at the state level and were also concerned at the lack of uniformity between states. Where possible expenditure relating to programs operated by hospitals should be at the hospital level.

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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 10
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0