Definitions

Comorbidity

The simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient:

• a disease or medical condition that is simultaneously present with another or others in a patient.

Disengaged – when considering youth engagement, disengaged you identifies persons aged 15-24 years who are either “unemployed”, or “not in the labour force” and not enrolled in education.

Long Term Health Condition:

This variable describes the number of selected long-term health conditions a person has reported. The selected long-term health conditions include:

• arthritis
• asthma-
• cancer (including remission)
• dementia (including Alzheimer’s)
• diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)
• heart disease (including heart attack or angina)
• kidney disease
• lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)
• mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)
• stroke

The condition ‘any other long-term health condition(s)’ is excluded from the count.

SEIFA Index of Disadvantage – Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) is a suite of indexes that have been created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) from social and economic Census information. Each index ranks geographic areas across Australia in terms of their relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. It is a range of information about the economic and social conditions of people and households and presents as a “score”, where a low score indicates relatively greater disadvantage.