Abbreviations/acronyms

Please refer to this list for abbreviations/acronyms used in the latest information and statistic health topic sections.

ABS – Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACT – Australian Capital Territory

AHMAC – Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council

AIHW – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

AIR – Australian Immunisation Register

ANZDATA – Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry

AOD – Alcohol and other drugs

ARF – Acute rheumatic fever

ASSAD – Australian Secondary Students’ Alcohol and Drug Survey

BMI – Body mass index

CKD – Chronic kidney disease

COPD – Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

COVID-19 – Coronavirus disease

CSEWB – Cultural social and emotional wellbeing

CSOM – Chronic suppurative otitis media

CTG – Closing the Gap

CVD – Cardiovascular disease

DAA – Direct-acting antiviral

DALY – Disability-adjusted life year

DR – Diabetic retinopathy

ERP – Estimated resident population

ESKD – End-stage kidney disease

ESRD – End-stage renal disease

GAS – Group A streptococci

GDM – Gestational diabetes mellitus

GP – General practitioner

HBV – Hepatitis B virus

HCV – Hepatitis C virus

HD – Haemodialysis

Hib – Haemophilus influenzae type b

HIV – Human immunodeficiency virus

HPV – Human papillomavirus

ICD – International Classification of Diseases

IHD – Ischaemic heart disease

IMD – Invasive meningococcal disease

IMR – Infant mortality rate

IPD – Invasive pneumococcal disease

LAF – Low aromatic fuel

LBW – Low birthweight

MMR – Maternal mortality ratio

MMR – Measles, mumps and rubella

NAPLAN – National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy

NATSIHS – National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey

NCOHS – National Child Oral Health Study

NDSHS – National Drug Strategy Household Survey

NEHS – National Eye Health Survey

NILS – National Indigenous Languages Survey

NIP – National Immunisation Program

NSAOH – National Study of Adult Oral Health

NSP – Needle Syringe Program

NSW – New South Wales

NT – Northern Territory

OM – Otitis media

PD – Peritoneal dialysis

Qld – Queensland

RHD – Rheumatic heart disease

SA – South Australia

SCRGSP – Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision

SDAC – Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers

SEWB – Social and emotional wellbeing

SIDS – Sudden infant death syndrome

STI – Sexually transmissible infection

Tas – Tasmania

TB – Tuberculosis

TIS – Tackling Indigenous Smoking

VI – Vision impairment

Vic – Victoria

VSU – Volatile substance use

WA – Western Australia

WC – Waist circumference

WHO – World Health Organization

WHR – Waist-hip ratio