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Central Northern Adelaide Health Service: A Social Health Atlas


The purpose of this Social Health Atlas is to provide the basis for the region to understand and determine priorities for regional health planning, and for key partners in other government or non-goverment agencies to utilise the data to inform their planning processes.

Authored by PHIDU

Published: 2005; Available free online; Printed copies: contact Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, Regional Office (Ph: 8222 1400)

Challenges for Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing in Australia: Current and future perspectives. Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing Technical Reference Group Forum


The 2006 CATI TRG Forum on the Challenges for Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing in Australia: Current and future perspectives is reported in these proceedings.  The Forum was attended by 40 participants, hosted by the Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit of the South Australian Department of Health, with funding by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Population Health Division. The Forum aims were to harmonise efforts across jurisdictions and to share participant views and expertise.  Issues included: the demise of the Electronic White Pages and how to modify the sampling frame; advantages and disadvantages of Random Digit Dialling (RDD) and list-assisted RDD; possible responses to the anticipated future need for geographic sampling, and growth in mobile telephones as a primary means of communication; potential moves from household-based to person-based sampling; panel methods; ‘next generation’ multi-mode and mixed mode methods, and whether data obtained from mixed modes should be combined into one data-set; lack of gold standards for questions and of information on the ‘best’ modes to use for different purposes; and, use of ‘incentives’.  The Forum concluded that best practice in a period of change should include monitoring changing telecommunications, lobbying for a Do-Not-Call list in Australia; work on the standardisation of response rates, and developing a replacement for the EWP sample list.

These Proceedings are made available here as the CATI TRG website is no longer maintained.  Previous Forum proceedings are available at: http://www.nphp.gov.au/catitrg/keyactiv.htm [page last updated 8 October 2004].

Prepared and edited by PHIDU

Published: 2010; Available free online; Printed copies: not available

Chronic Disease and Associated Risk Factors Information Monitoring System: The results of an audit of Australian data collections and policies and a review of the international experience


This report presents an overview of the audit phase of the Feasibility Study for Developing a National-wide Chronic Disease and Associated Risk Factors Information and Monitoring System, and is based on the further development and integration of a number of documents prepared in that phase. It details the Australian situation from the audit of policy and data collections, including the result of a consultation with policy makers on the utility of existing information resources; and reviews a range of international experiences and the importance of a mix of strategies. Information gaps in Australian collections are identified against a monitoring framework based on the chronic diseases considered a national priority in Australia and the risk factors and determinants recognised as associated with those diseases. Finally, the report identifies a four strategy approach for creating better time series information on chronic diseases and associated risk factors and determinants, and to draw together a range of activities and developments in public health information in Australia.

Prepared by Jeanette Pope and Su Gruszin after the Audit phase of the Feasibility Study for Developing a Nation-wide Chronic Disease and Associated Risk Factors Information and Monitoring System

Published: December 2003; Available free online [see also further information on the Project Consortium Reports]; Printed copies: not available

Comparative Evaluation of Indicators for Gender Equity and Health


This paper provides the summary of three interrelated reports:

  1. An annotated bibliography on indicators for gender equity, gender equality and health (including: conceptual frameworks, development of indicators and indices, and monitoring strategies);

  2. A Health Information Framework (rather than a conceptual model about determinants of health) that defines the parameters within which the indicators could be examined, along with issues associated with indicator development and use;

  3. An audit of indicators used by key international organizations concerned with gender and health, or proposed by international organizations for development and use.

Prepared by the LaTrobe Consortium, including staff members of PHIDU for the World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre - WKC)

Published: December 2003; Available free online; Printed copies: contact WHO Kobe Centre - WKC

Computer assisted survey information collection: Australian health surveys: question and module development principles and practice


Occasional Paper No. 5

The work of the National Computer Assisted Telephone Interview Technical Reference Group (CATI TRG) under the National Public Health Partnership has emphasized the need to establish question and module development standards in the Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection (CASIC) environment that can be utilised in CATI health surveys across Australia. This has been seen as important so that measurement error in the CASIC environment can be reduced as well as providing greater harmonisation of the results of different CASIC data collection activities. This overview of question/module development principles and practices provides a guide to the various stages that are required to ensure that 'best practice' question development is followed.

This document outlines principles and practices for the development of consistent and uniform questions (or sets of questions) in CASIC. It covers the identification and assessment of questions, key processes in the development of questions and the processes to test validity and reliability. In addition, subsequent fieldwork issues, interviewer feedback and reporting on questions are outlined.

Authored by PHIDU

Published: 2003; Available free online; Printed copies: not available