This dataset presents the footprint of the percentage of distinct clients to alcohol and other drug treatment services (AODTS) by treatment type. The AODTS data is based on data reported to the AODTS National Minimum Dataset (NMDS). The data spans the financial year of 2016-2017 and is aggregated to 2015 Department of Health Primary Health Network (PHN) areas, based on the 2011 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).
The AODTS data accompanies the Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2016-17 Report.
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Please note:
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AURIN has spatially enabled the original data using the Department of Health - PHN Areas.
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The PHN of the client was assigned based on the reported postcode of the client using the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Postal Area 2013 to Primary Health Network 2015 concordance file. Clients with an invalid postcode were assigned to the PHN group 'PHN Unallocated' and removed from the analysis.
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Treatment type refers to the type of activity used to treat the client's alcohol or other drug problem. Main treatment type is the principal activity that is determined at assessment by the treatment provider to be necessary for the completion of the treatment plan for the client's alcohol or other drug problem for their principal drug of concern. One main treatment type is reported for each treatment episode.
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Assessment only, support and case management only, and information and education only can only be reported as main treatment types. The AODTS NMDS also collects data on a client's other treatment types; however this variable is not included the data.
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Due to the nuances of data collection systems in Western Australia and Victoria, caution should be used when comparing the reported number of episodes by main treatment type in these states' PHNs to others. Western Australia's and Victoria's data collection systems do not collect an additional treatment type. Instead, a new treatment episode is opened for any additional treatment a client receives, and the additional treatment is recorded as the main treatment. This may inflate the reported number of episodes provides in the collection year.