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Priority Areas

Priority Areas provides hot spotting and mapping functions that enable practice staff to quickly understand the population health characteristics of the area in which a practice operates.

For an introduction please see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9cfggO4zE (2min 29 secs)

Structure

The Priority Areas are composed of four separate parts to represent all required information.

  • Priority Area
    The area of focus, for example: Mental Heath
  • Subject
    A subcategory, for example: Indicators
  • Measure
    An individual dataset, for example: Registered mental heath clients
  • Entry
    A number for a given LGA representing a count of the given Measure.

How to create a Priority Area

  1. Sign In to your PHN Admin account.
  2. Click PHN Admin on the left navigation menu.
  3. Select your PHN by clicking CONTINUE.
  4. On the PHN Admin page, scoll down to the section named Priority Areas and expand the section by clicking on it.
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  5. In the bottom right of the Priority Areas section, click the CREATE button.
  6. In the Create Priority Area popup window, enter a priority area name and click CREATE
  7. Success! you have finished How to create a Priority Area

How to create a Subject

  1. Sign In to your PHN Admin account.
  2. Click Priority Areas on the left navigation menu.
  3. Click the switch named Enable Editing to toggle it to the Yes position.
  4. Click CREATE SUBJECT and enter a Subject name in the popup window.
  5. In the Create Subject popup window, enter a subject name and click CREATE
  6. Success! you have finished How to create a Subject.

How to create a Measure

  1. Sign In to your PHN Admin account.
  2. Click Priority Areas on the left navigation menu.
  3. Click the switch named Enable Editing to toggle it to the Yes position.
  4. Click CREATE MEASURE and enter a Subject name in the popup window.
  5. In the Create Measure popup window, enter a measure name, source and bias then click CREATE
  6. Success! you have finished How to create a Measure.

How to enter an Entry

  1. Sign In to your PHN Admin account.
  2. Click Priority Areas on the left navigation menu.
  3. Click the switch named Enable Editing to toggle it to the Yes position.
  4. The individual fields of each LGA for a Measure measure can be given an Entry Adding Entries Example
  5. Success! you have finished How to enter an Entry