IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 340: The Utility of Data Collected as Part of Australia & rsquo;s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 340: The Utility of Data Collected as Part of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph21030340 Authors: Boyd Potts Christopher M. Doran Stephen Begg Since 2006, the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (HPF) reports have provided information about Indigenous Australians’ health outcomes. The HPF was designed, in consultation with Indigenous stakeholder groups, to promote accountability and inform policy and research. This paper explores bridging the HPF as a theoretical construct and the publicly available data provided against its measures. A whole-of-framework, whole-of-system monitoring perspective was taken to summarise 289 eligible indicators at the state/territory level, organised by the HPF’s tier and group hierarchy. Data accompanying the 2017 and 2020 reports were used to compute improvement over time. Unit change and confidence indicators were developed to create an abstract but interpretable improvement score suitable for aggregation and visualisation at scale. The result is an exploratory methodology that summarises changes over time. An example dashboard visualisation is presented. The use of secondary data inevitably invites acknowledgments of what analysis cannot say, owing to methods of collection, sampling bias, or unobserved...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Article Source Type: research