Notes on the data: Avoidable mortality by selected cause - 0 to 74 years

Avoidable deaths from suicide and self-inflicted injuries, persons aged 0 to 74 years, 2013 to 2017

Policy context:  The concept of avoidable mortality varies in the approaches adopted by different researchers and over time, with the current Australian code set based on a review of the earlier work in Australia [1] and more recent international review [2].

For more information see deaths from suicide and self-inflicted injuries here.

References

1. Page A, Tobias M, Glover J, Wright C, Hetzel D, Fisher E. Australian and New Zealand atlas of avoidable mortality. Adelaide: Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU), The University of Adelaide; 2006 [cited 3 Mar 2015]. Available from: Australian and New Zealand Atlas of Avoidable Mortality.
2. AMIEHS. Avoidable mortality in the European Union: Towards better indicators for the effectiveness of health systems. Volume 1: Final Report and Volume 2: Appendices. [Internet]. August 2011 [cited 3 Mar 2015]. Available from: http://amiehs.lshtm.ac.uk/publications/.

Notes:

Background

In 2010, the National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) included a performance indicator called Potentially Avoidable Deaths (PI-20). The specification for this indicator was endorsed by the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council in 2009 based on advice from the National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee (NHISSC).

On 4 December 2013, NHISSC agreed to the re-establishment of the Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations/Potentially Avoidable Deaths (PPH/PAD) Working Group to finalise specification of this performance indicator for the 2015 NHA report. Throughout 2014, work was done by the PPH/PAD Working Group, with further revisions by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), and including additional NHISSC comments from several states. It also included an examination of the international work in avoidable mortality.

The data presented in this dataset are those listed in the PI-16 Potentially avoidable deaths, 2018.

Indicator detail

Deaths are defined as avoidable in the context of the present health system, based on the NHA PI-16 Potentially avoidable deaths, 2018.

Not all of the causes of avoidable mortality are shown in this atlas as some have too few cases to be reliable indicators at the small area level.

Note: Some of the selected avoidable mortality indicators may comprise the same condition(s)/ ICD codes as the selected premature mortality indicators presented in the data/ maps.

Avoidable deaths from suicide and self-inflicted injuries (0-74 years)

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes/ specifications for: X60-X84, Y87.0

Potentially avoidable mortality (0-74 years)

ICD-10 codes/ specifications in scope are as specified below:

Geography: Data available by Population Health Area, Local Government Area, Primary Health Network, quintile of socioeconomic disadvantage of area and Remoteness Area

Numerator:  Avoidable deaths from suicide and self-inflicted injuries at ages 0 to 74 years

Denominator:  Population aged 0 to 74 years

Detail of analysis:  Average annual indirectly age-standardised rate per 100,000 population (aged 0 to 74 years); and/or indirectly age-standardised ratio, based on the Australian standard.

Source:  Data compiled by PHIDU from deaths data based on the 2013 to 2017 Cause of Death Unit Record Files supplied by the Australian Coordinating Registry and the Victorian Department of Justice, on behalf of the Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages and the National Coronial Information System. The population is the ABS Estimated Resident Population (ERP) for Australia, 30 June 2013 to 30 June 2017.

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