Abbreviations

• ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics
• ACIR - Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
• ACT - Australian Capital Territory
• AIDS - Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
• AIHW - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• ANZDATA - Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry
• ASGC - Australian Standard Geographical Classification
• ARF - Acute rheumatic fever
• ATSIC - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
• BEACH - Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health
• BMI - Body mass index
• CDHS - Child Dental Health Survey
• CKD - Chronic kidney disease
• COAG - Council of Australian Governments
• CSOM - Chronic suppurative otitis media
• CVD - Cardiovascular disease
• DSM - Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
• DTP - Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis
• ENT - Ear, nose, throat
• ESRD - End-stage renal disease
• FASD - Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
• GAS - Group A streptococcus
• GDM - Gestational diabetes mellitus
• GP - General practitioner
• GSS - General Social Survey
• HAV - Hepatitis A virus
• HBV - Hepatitis B virus
• HCV - Hepatitis C virus
• HD - Haemodialysis
• Hib - Haemophilus influenzae type b
• HIV - Human immunodeficiency virus
• HPV - Human papilloma virus
• ICD - International Classification of Diseases - the World Health Organization's internationally accepted classification of death and disease
• IDU - Injecting drug use
• IMR - Infant mortality rate
• IPD - Invasive pneumococcal disease
• KRT - Kidney replacement therapy
• LBW - Low birthweight
• MMR - Measles, mumps, rubella
• NACCHO - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
• NATSIHS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey
• NATSISS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey
• NDR - National Diabetes register
• NDSHS - National Drug Strategy Household Survey
• NHMRC - National Health and Medical Research Council
• NHS - National Health Survey
• NIEHS - National Indigenous Eye Health Survey
• NNDSS - National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
• NSAOH - National Survey of Adult Oral Health
• NSW - New South Wales
• NT - Northern Territory
• NTEHP - National Trachoma and Eye Health Program
• NTER - Northern Territory Emergency Response
• OATSIH - Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• OM - Otitis media
• PD - Peritoneal dialysis
• Qld - Queensland
• RHD - Rheumatic heart disease
• SA - South Australia
• SAB - Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
• SDAC - Survey of Disibility, Ageing and Carers
• SIDS - Sudden infant death syndrome
• SMR - Standardised mortality ratio
• STD - Sexually transmitted disease; see STI
• STI - Sexually transmitted infection
• Tas - Tasmania
• TB - Tuberculosis
• UV - Ultraviolet
• Vic - Victoria
• WA - Western Australia
• WAACHS - Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey
• WHO - World Health Organization
• WHR - Waist to hip ratio