
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rissel, Chris 
A1  - Ward, Jeanette 
T1  - An outcomes approach to population health at the local level in NSW: Practical problems and potential solutions
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 1996
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
SP  - 23
EP  - 39
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH960023 
N2  - While a health outcomes approach has the potential to improve the health status of Australians as well as health service efficiency, such a policy will be successful only if practice at the local level follows suit. This paper briefly reviews the health outcomes approach and describes how the Central Sydney Area Health Service has established a Needs Assessment &amp; Health Outcomes Unit to help improve health outcomes. The paper discusses issues in working with population health outcomes at the local level, such as the usefulness and limitations of routinely collected data for planning and managing health services, problems of small area data, gaps in the documentation of national health goals and targets, problems of attribution of improved outcomes to specific interventions and definition of responsibilities for action at the local level. It offers some potential solutions relevant at the local level. 
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