Demographics

Dorset Tas Dorset Local Government Area

Top 10 lists, Tasmanian public hospitals (2015-16)8

Note: Estimates with a higher than 50% relative standard error are not provided Estimates provided in red font have a high relative standard error, between 25% and 50%, and must be used with caution

Population (June 2016)1

6,617 509,965 Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

2. Congestive cardiac failure

3. Diabetes complications

4. Asthma

5. Cellulitis

6. Urinary tract infections, incl. Pyelonephritis

7. Iron deficiency anaemia

8. Dental conditions

9. Angina

10. Gangrene

Primary diagnosis on admission

1. (Z49) Care involving dialysis

2. (H26) Other cataract

3. (J44) Other COPD

4. (Z38) Liveborn infants accord to plc of birth

5. (O80) Single spontaneous delivery

6. (I50) Heart failure

7. (G35) Multiple sclerosis

8. (K56) Paralytic ileus & intest obs wo hernia

9. (I21) Acute myocardial infarction

10. (S72) Fracture of femur

Allied health provided in hospital

1. Physiotherapy

2. Pharmacy

3. Occupational therapy

4. Dietetics

5. Social work

6. Speech pathology

7. Prosthetics and orthotics

8. Pastoral care

9. Diabetes education

10. Podiatry

Aboriginal population2 2.9% 4.6%

Population 65+ years2

23.8% 19.4%

Median age in years2 48 42

Social determinants of health

Median household weekly income2 $822 $1,100

Private dwellings without a motor vehicle2 4.3% 7.5%

Unemployment rate (September 2015)3 6.8% 6.5%

Eligible population completed year 10 or high-er2 80.6% 86.3%

Risk factors

Self-assessed health, fair or poor (2013)4 16.4% 19.0%

Psychological distress, high or very high (2013)4 - 11.4%

Charlson comorbidities

1. Renal disease

2. Diabetes without chronic complication

3. Diabetes with chronic complication

4. Any malignancy, including lymphoma and leukaemia, except malig-

nant neoplasm of skin

5. Chronic pulmonary disease

6. Metastatic solid tumour

7. Congestive heart failure

8. Cerebrovascular disease

9. Dementia

10. Rheumatic disease

Ages of admitted patients

Current smoker5

13.1% 15.7%

Insufficient moderate/vigorous activity5 19.3% 14.9%

Inadequate vegetable consumption, <2 serves daily5 77.0% 91.0%

Inadequate fruit consumption, <2 serves dai-ly5 50.7% 59.6%

Obese BMI5 30.4% 24.3%

Mortality (age standardised rates per 100,000 population)6

All-cause mortality (2008-2012) 701.2 643.7

Deaths due to circulatory disease (2008-2012) 206.2 201.0

Deaths due to cancers (2008-2012) 217.0 190.1

Potentially avoidable mortality (2008-2012) 202.8 170.1

Morbidity Issues:

Relatively poorer, less educated populace with increased health risk factors related to exercise and obesity.

Generally, mortality and morbidity are relatively adverse com-pared to Tasmania.

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2016. Cat no 3218.0. 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing: General Community Profile, Australia, 2016, Cat No 2001.0 (Canberra, Australia: 2017). 3 Primary Health Information Development Unit, Social Health Atlas of Australia: Local Government Areas; Based on the Small Area Labour Markets – Australia, Department (2016). 4 Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmanian Population Health Survey 2013 5 Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, Tasmanian Population Health Survey 2016, ed. and trans. Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, 1 ed. (Hobart, Australia: Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, 2017). 6 Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, Epidemiology Unit Data (2017). 7 Primary Health Information Development Unit, "Social Health Atlas of Australia: Local Government Areas; Complied Based on Data Provided by Australian Childhood Immunisation Register, Medicare Australia, 2015." 8 Department of Health and Human Services, Health data warehouse, 2011-2016

Persons aged 18+ with 3 or more chronic diseases6 43.1% 21.5%

Children fully immunised at 5 years of age7 88.2% 92.4%

Potentially preventable hospitalisations, age standardised rate per 1,000 population (2011/12-2015/16)8 22.6 21.2

Sourced from National Health Services Directory: Healthmap (https://healthmap.com.au/) as of 09/2017

Disclaimer: data sourced from the NHSD. Contact the NHSD for updates or corrections.

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