2017-09-12 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   12 SEPTEMBER 2017




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                             12 SEPTEMBER 2017

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              Access to Health, Education, Aged Care                [                  A      witetioetel                        ]
                      ;                                                                 ccess to   Services Index
              and Child Care
                                                                         5.8                                          a
              Access to health, education, aged care and                  5.6
              child care is measured by asking respondents            if ig
              to rate their access to the following types of          z 5
              services in their local community, on a scale            3°20
              ranging from 'very poor' (1) to 'very good' (7):        £3 50
              (i) General health services e.g. GP, general             § Bae        48               i
              health consultation services; (ii) Mental health         a ,
              services e.g. psychologist, psychiatrist; (iii)         246
              Specialist health services (other than mental               4a
              health); (iv) Education e.g. schools, distance              b
              education, vocational training; (v) Aged care                   Rural & regional Australia Rural & regional Queensland Noosa (n=320)
              services e.g. retirement villages, in-home                          (es)              (n-1953)
              support; and (vi) Child care. A single measure
              of overall access to health, education, aged
              and child care was then constructed based on
              the average score of a person’s responses to
              these items, after excluding respondents who           The categories represented by the Access to Services Index
              were unsure whether there was access to a              are presented below. The respondents scored each category
              given service.                                         ona 7-point scale, from ‘very poor’ (1) to ‘very good’ (7),
                                                                     with the results below showing percentages for those who
                                                                     scored the categories 5, 6 or 7 as showing belief that the
                                                                     services were good.

                                                 Access to Services Categories
                          @ Rural & regional Australia (n=12981) @ Rural & regional Queensland (n=1953)  ® Noosa (n=320)
                     100.0 +
                                            2228                                             90.3
                      90.0  +
                                                                     83.6
                  3                                                                                                   80.6
                   g, 80.0       75.2 754                 75.7 Fag
                   2
                   =  70.0 | —                                                    68.8                     68.9 69.3
                   g
                  2
                   $  600   |
                   &
                   S$
                  3   500   4
                   =
                   o
                  &   400   |
                   =
                   2
                   S  300   |
                  =
                   g
                  SG  20.0  +                           -
                  xz
                      10.0  +

                       0.0 |                         +                       ;                        :
                                  Health services            Education            Aged care services          Child care

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