Glossaries and Abbreviations
This section contains a glossary of terms.
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- ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics
- ACCHS - Aboriginal community-controlled Health Service (initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community): see also AMS
- ACEi - Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor
- ACT - Australian Capital Territory
- AHS - Australian Housing Survey
- AIDS - Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- AIHW - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- AMA - Australian Medical Association
- AMS - Aboriginal Medical Service (not always community controlled): see also ACCHS
- ANCARD - Australian National Council on AIDS and Related Diseases
- ANZDATA - Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry
- ASCO - Australian Standard Classification of Occupations
- ASGC - Australian Standard Geographical Classification
- ATSIC - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
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- CDEP - Community Development Employment Projects scheme
- CGC - Commonwealth Grants Commission
- CHINS - Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey
- COAG - Council of Australian Governments
- CSOM - Chronic suppurative otitis media
- CVD - Cardiovascular disease
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- DMFT - A count of the sum of teeth (T) that are decayed (D), missing due to caries (M), and filled due to caries (F)
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- ERP - Estimated resident population
- ESRD - End-stage renal disease
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- GAS - Group A streptococcus
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- HAV - Hepatitis A virus
- HBV - Hepatitis B virus
- HBsAg - Hepatitis B surface antigen (a serological marker for HBV)
- HCV - Hepatitis C virus
- HIV - Human immunodeficiency virus
- HPV - Human papilloma virus
- Hib - H. influenzae type b
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- ICD - International Classification of Diseases - the World Health Organization's internationally accepted classification of death and disease
- ICDH - International Classification of Disability and Handicaps
- ICF - International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
- IDDM - Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- IHO - Indigenous Housing Organisations
- IPD - Invasive pneumococcal disease
- ISDR - Indirectly standardised death rate
- IV - Intravenous
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- MMR - Maternal mortality ratio
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- NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
- NATSIS - (1994) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey
- NATSISS - (2002) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey
- NHMRC - National Health and Medical Research Council
- NHS - National Health Survey
- NIDDM - Non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- NNDSS - National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
- NSW - New South Wales
- NT - Northern Territory
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- OATSIH - Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- OATSIHS - Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services - the former name of OATSIH
- OM - Otitis media
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- RR - Rate ratio- usually in this publication the Indigenous rate divided by the non-Indigenous rate
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- SA - South Australia
- SMR - Standardised mortality ratio
- STD - Sexually transmitted disease; see STI
- STI - Sexually transmitted infection
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- UK - United Kingdom
- UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
- UV - Ultraviolet
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- WA - Western Australia
- WAACHS - Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey
- WHO - World Health Organization
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