PHIDU - Prevalence of Selected Health Risk Factors - Adults (LGA) 2017-2018

This dataset, released January 2020, contains for the years 2017-2018 the Estimated number of people aged 18 years and over with high or very high psychological distress based on the Kessler 10 Scale; Estimated number of people aged 18 years and over who had high blood pressure, overweight and obesity; Smoking (modelled estimates); Alcohol: lifetime risky drinking (modelled estimates); Fruit consumption (modelled estimates); Exercise (modelled estimates). The data is by Local Government Area (LGA) 2016 geographic boundaries.\n\nFor more information please see the [data source notes](https://phidu.torrens.edu.au/current/data/sha-aust/notes/phidu_data_sources_notes.pdf) on the data. \n\nSource: Estimates for Population Health Areas (PHAs) are modelled estimates and were produced by the ABS; estimates at the LGA and PHN level were derived from the PHA estimates.\n\n AURIN has spatially enabled the [original data](https://phidu.torrens.edu.au/social-health-atlases/data#social-health-atlases-of-australia-local-government-areas). Data that was not shown/not applicable/not published/not available for the specific area ('#', '..', '^', 'np, 'n.a.', 'n.y.a.' in original PHIDU data) was removed.It has been replaced by by Blank cells. For other keys and abbreviations refer to [PHIDU Keys](https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/1ryaKpnBQB6cMCp).