Key points
Monitoring levels of avoidable mortality and hospitalisation is an important part of the ongoing process of identifying priority areas and themes in a District Health Boards’ Health Needs Assessment process, and contributes to identifying continuing priorities and developing strategies to improve the health of society. Mortality/hospitalisation rates (and those that are avoidable) can act as a measure in understanding the broader and more complex multi-layered general health of society. The avoidable hospitalisation rate partly reflects effectiveness and access to primary health care.
Avoidable mortality rate (age standardised per 100,000 population)
Source: PHI Online - Public Health Intelligence (www.phionline.moh.govt.nz/webportal.htm)
Ambulatory sensitive hospitalisations (age standardised per 100,000 population)
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Source: PHI Online - Public Health Intelligence (www.phionline.moh.govt.nz/webportal.htm)
What agencies are doing
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What you can do to help
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More information
More detail on this indicator, including how and where this information is collected, is available here.
What we want to achieve
The community outcomes we are seeking to achieve by reducing avoidable mortality and hospitalisation rates are:
- We are healthy, with active lifestyles and enjoy a total sense of well-being. Everyone has access to affordable quality health services throughout the Waikato region.
- Maori enjoy the same quality of health, education, housing, employment and economic outcomes as non-Maori.