What is
?
This online service enables users to easily
download authoritative, evidence-based
health sector information – including relevant
projections – about regional populations with
particular health conditions and the services
and workforces available in that region.
• Area health profile: covers prevalence
and/or incidence for over 50 health conditions
• Area risk factor trends: covers the number of
people with health risk factors such as physical
inactivity, risky drinking, smoking, or excess
weight/obesity, and how these numbers are
projected to change in coming years
• Area services and workforce: includes doctors,
dentists, pharmacies and hospitals (public, private
and day facilities)
• Area health trends: for example, the projected
growth in the number of people with specific
conditions by age group and gender, or projected
growth in the number of new cases of macular
degeneration, osteoarthritis, schizophrenia or
other conditions
• Area comparisons: for example maps depicting
the differences between health services available
between different electorates.
Information can be accessed based on
regions of interest – such as Medicare Locals,
Local Government Areas, Statistical Local Areas,
federal or state electorates, or Australia as a whole
– with data quickly and easily presented in the form
of tables, charts and/or maps.
Summary data and maps can be customised
in accordance with the region and time period
desired to show any one or more of the
following characteristics:
Health services providers and policy makers can
select granular, customised data to help achieve
efficiencies and enhance health outcomes
via an annual subscription or the purchase
of individual reports.
Australia faces challenges in health services
planning due to demographic ageing,
technological advances and changing models
of care. To meet these challenges and plan
optimally, there is a need for readily accessible
and digestible information regarding the health
needs of the population, the availability of
appropriate services and infrastructure, and any
potential gaps – both now and in the future.
Deloitte offers a unique, online service,
Health data™, that provides health services
providers and policy makers with relevant and
timely data across more than 50 health conditions,
including all of the Australian Government’s
eight national health priority areas – arthritis and
musculoskeletal conditions, asthma, cancer control,
cardiovascular health, diabetes mellitus, injury
prevention and control, mental health, and obesity.
Accessing this evidence-based data can help identify
and project the resources and pathways that will
most optimally cope with increasing rates of disease
and disability, and provide the best possible health
outcomes for Australians.
Essential ingredients
for a healthy future
How can you use
– case study
The problem – A Medicare Local anticipates that
its catchment area population will face an increased
number of people with dementia in the coming
years. In order to ensure appropriate services across
primary care, aged care and allied health, its staff
want to know the projected number of new cases
and total number of people with dementia, by age
group, in 2012 through to 2020, and the number
of general practitioners estimated in the catchment
who can provide diagnosis, care management and
referral services.
The solution – Using Health data™, the staff are
able to download a report showing the estimated
incidence and prevalence of dementia in the local
catchment area (in terms of numbers of people
by five-year age group and gender, and cases per
1,000 population), as well as the number expected
each year from 2012 to 2020.
This epidemiological information can then
be overlayed with the number of doctors in the
local catchment area, with a map showing people
with dementia, projected growth in dementia
over the period, and doctors available – together
with comparisons against other Medicare Locals
across Australia. The reported information
can be presented in various formats, including
geospatial maps, tables and charts, ready for use in
reporting, awareness raising and services planning.
2012 Prevalence (cases)
7270 to 8950
5590 to 7270
3910 to 5590
2230 to 3910
550 to 2230
Points of interest
Location of medical
practitioners
The outcome – The Medicare Local can now
make an appropriate estimate of the growth in
dementia care services and resources that would
be required to meet the needs of its ageing
local population. This, in turn, will enable it to
make an evidence-based estimate of funding
requirements to appropriately support people
with dementia and their families and carers.
enables
users to easily
download
authoritative,
evidence-based
health sector
information
2012 Prevalence growth
rate (2012 to 2020
growth %)
4.25 to 4.73
3.77 to 4.25
3.29 to 3.77
2.81 to 3.29
2.33 to 2.81
Points of interest
Location of medical
practitioners
How is
Health data™ incorporates:
• Demographics (age and gender) of the
residential population. Based on usual residence
from the latest available Australian Bureau of
Statistics Census of Population and Housing,
aggregated from Census Collection District (CCD)
areas to administrative geographies, such as Local
Government Areas, using accepted concordances,
with projections to 2050
sourced?
• Health incidence and prevalence rates by age
and gender. Based on analysis of epidemiological
data from the peer-reviewed literature and official
sources (such as the Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare), with sources provided
• Selected workforce and services data from
multiple datasets. Please refer to www.deloitte.
com/au/healthedata.
Contact
For more information about how Health data™
can help your organisation, please contact us.
For information about subscriptions or access
to this service, please contact:
Canberra
Lynne Pezzullo
Lead Partner – Health Economics and Social Policy
Deloitte Access Economics
Tel: +61 2 6175 2000
Kellie Chalker-Hall
Marketing Manager
Deloitte Access Economics
Tel: +61 2 6175 2000
Sydney
Khoa Le
Manager – Health Economics and Social Policy
Deloitte Access Economics
Tel: +61 2 9322 7000
www.deloitte.com/au/healthedata
email: [email protected]
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