"Australia is an ethnically diverse nation. In 2020, an estimated 3 in 10 (30%, or 7.7 million) people living in Australia were born overseas (ABS 2021a). According to the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, almost half (49%) of Australians had been born overseas or had one or both parents born overseas (ABS 2017a). People from some culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds can face greater challenges when navigating the health-care system than people who do not identify as CALD. These can include language and cultural barriers, such as not knowing where to seek help or how to access services. Understanding patterns of disease within CALD populations is important to being able to address the health needs of the CALD population in Australia. ... Reporting on the health needs of CALD populations in Australia is complex and challenging. The term CALD can have multiple definitions, and includes aspects such as a person's country of birth, their ancestry, where their parents were born, what language/s they speak and their religious affiliation. There can also be large differences within CALD groups; (for example, those born in the same country may not identify with the same culture or speak the same language). Many data collections do not collect any information on CALD, or collect information on one aspect only. This is inadequate for identifying all people from CALD backgrounds as often a range of information is required. ... How can linked data be used to report on the health of the CALD population? Using linked data can provide a solution to some of these challenges. By combining different sources of information, it is possible to tell a rich story of a person's demographic profile and interactions with various services. The Multi-Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP) combines information from data sets such as the Census, National Health Surveys (NHS), Medicare Benefits Schedule, prescription medicines (from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) and death registrations (ABS 2021c). Because the data are linked at the level of the individual, information from one data set (for example, country of birth from the Census), can be used to supplement information in data sets that do not collect this information. ... This report uses linked Census, death registrations and NHS data to explore 3 commonly reported health outcomes in conjunction with the range of CALD information collected in these data."-Summary.
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