Remoteness Areas: Dept of Health Australia [1], [2] "The use of the ASGC-RA is not unique to DoHA. It is used extensively by Centrelink, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, (FaHCSIA) and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations."; Aust. Inst Health & Welfare [3]; Parliament of Australia [4]; RFDS [5]; ... ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 07:08, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Australian Early Development Census – https://www.aedc.gov.au/data – "the AEDC geography was updated to align with the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS), ABS 2016. Revised boundaries were used for the 2018 collection and applied retrospectively to all previous collections" ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 22:10, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
(remoteness and health services again) Modified Monash Model and legislation relating to health insurance:
"The Department of Health uses the ASGS-RA structure as the basis of its own Modified Monash Model (MMM), which further classifies areas according to population size, RA and proximity to other population centres.
"The MMM categorises these areas in Australia into seven remoteness categories. It was developed to identify health access issues in remote and smaller communities, allowing health workforce programs and Medicare benefits to be better targeted.
"The purpose of the Health Insurance (Section 3C – Other Medical Practitioner and Telehealth) Amendment (Australian Statistical Geography Standard) Determination 2019 (the Amending Determination) is to update the ASGS to reference the July 2016 edition, which uses the latest available Census data, from 1 January 2020. The new MMM is based upon this most recent ASGS."
(Commonwealth) Department of Health (Australia) mentions 31 "Primary Health Networks", and has concordances between their coverage areas and other spatial entities, including SA1, SA2, SA3, LGA, postcode, electoral division. "Australia has 31 PHN regions which closely align with the state and territory local hospital networks." [6] ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 23:00, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
