DIVISION 3 SOCIETY
This division covers R&D directed towards individual
and community well-being or
towards general social development.
It includes R&D directed towards the improvement and
protection of human health,
including clinical treatment, development and provision
of public health and health support services.
It includes R&D directed towards the provision of
education and training.
This division also includes R&D directed towards social
development and community services,
including work, arts and leisure, justice and the law,
government and politics and the provision of welfare
and other public services (other than those concerned
with economic development).
It also includes R&D directed towards international
relations, heritage, communication, religion and
the understanding of past societies and ethical issues
relating to social development.
This division has three subdivisions:
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) Health and safety issues associated with industrial
activities is included in
Division 2 Economic Development,
e.g. safety in construction industry,
is included in Subdivision
680000 Construction.
(b)The resolution of social and health issues in economic
development,
e.g. industrial relations
and working conditions, is included in Subdivision 720000 Economic Framework,
Group 720400 Management
and Productivity Issues.
SUBDIVISION 730000 HEALTH
This subdivision covers R&D directed towards human
health, including the understanding and
treatment of clinical diseases and conditions and the
provision of public health and associated support services.
This subdivision has three groups:
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GROUP 730100 CLINICAL (ORGANS,
DISEASES AND ABNORMAL CONDITIONS)
This group covers R&D directed towards the clinical
aspects of health and medicine.
It includes R&D directed towards organ diseases or
abnormal conditions and
mainly aimed at gaining understanding of causes, effects
and treatment of specific conditions.
This group has nineteen classes:
730101 Infectious diseases
730102 Immune system and allergy
730103 Blood and disorders
730104 Nervous system and disorders
730105 Endocrine organs and diseases (incl. diabetes)
730106 Cardiovascular system and diseases
730107 Inherited diseases (incl. gene therapy)
730108 Cancer and related disorders
730109 Surgical methods and procedures
730110 Respiratory system and diseases (incl. asthma)
730111 Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders
730112 Oro-dental and disorders
730113 Digestive system and disorders
730114 Skeletal system and disorders (incl. arthritis)
730115 Urogenital system and disorders
730116 Reproductive system and disorders
730117 Skin and related disorders
730118 Organs, diseases and abnormal conditions not elsewhere
classified
730199 Clinical health not specific to particular organs,
diseases and conditions
Exclusions: R&D directed towards preventive medicine
and life-style impact on health,
the effect of social conditions (e.g. poverty) on the
community health, and the social aspects of health
(e.g. food safety, nutrition) is included in Group 730200
Public Health.
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GROUP 730200 PUBLIC HEALTH
This group covers R&D directed towards community health
or the health of discrete community groups,
e.g. aged persons. The primary focus of R&D in this
group is on the social and
community aspects of health and medicine.
It includes R&D directed towards community support
for particular conditions or for discrete groups as
they relate to health and medical conditions.
This group also includes R&D directed towards preventive
medicine, environmental health
(e.g. health factors in constructing an airport) and
other broad aspects of public health.
This group has twenty one classes:
730201 Women's health
730202 Men's health
730203 Health related to ageing
730204 Child health
730205 Substance abuse
730206 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
730207 Health related to specific ethnic groups
730208 Occupational health (excl. economic development
aspects)
730209 Rural health
730210 Environmental health
730211 Mental health
730212 Disease distribution and transmission
730213 Preventive medicine
730214 Dental health
730215 Nutrition
730216 Food safety
730217 Health status (e.g. indicators of "well-being")
730218 Social structure and health
730219 Behaviour and health
730220 Injury control
730299 Public health not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) Understanding the causes, effects and treatment of
specific clinical conditions is included in
Group 730100 Clinical
(Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions).
(b) The evaluation of health care programs and policies
is included in Group 730300 Health
and Support Services.
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GROUP 730300 HEALTH AND SUPPORT
SERVICES
This group covers R&D directed towards community support
(incl. community health education and training)
in health and medicine. The primary focus of R&D
in this group is on the promotion of health education and
the evaluation of health programs.
This group includes R&D directed towards health care
infrastructure support.
This group has nine classes:
730301 Health education and promotion
730302 Nursing
730303 Occupational, speech and physiotherapy
730304 Palliative care
730305 Diagnostic methods
730306 Evaluation of health outcomes
730307 Health policy evaluation
730308 Health policy economic outcomes
730399 Health and support services not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) Understanding the causes, effects and the treatment
of specific clinical conditions is included in
Group 730100 Clinical
(Organs, Diseases and Conditions).
(b) Health as it pertains to the general community or
discrete groups (e.g. aged persons) is included in
Group 730200 Public Health.
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SUBDIVISION 740000 EDUCATION AND TRAINING
This subdivision covers R&D directed towards general
education and training.
This subdivision has six groups:
Exclusions: R&D directed towards public health education
is included in Group 730300 Health
and Support Services.
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GROUP 740100 EARLY CHILDHOOD
AND PRIMARY EDUCATION
This group covers R&D directed towards early childhood
and primary school education.
This group has two classes:
740101 Early childhood education
740102 Primary education
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GROUP 740200 SECONDARY EDUCATION
This group covers R&D directed towards high school
or secondary education.
It has the one Class 740201 Secondary education.
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GROUP 740300 HIGHER EDUCATION
This group covers R&D directed towards tertiary or
post-secondary education.
It has the one Class 740301 Higher education.
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) TAFE colleges operation is included in Group 740400
Vocational Education and Training.
(b) The provision of continuing education is included
in Group 749900 Other Education.
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GROUP 740400 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
This group covers R&D directed towards vocational
education and training, including technical education
and TAFE colleges operation.
It has the one Class 740401 Vocational education and training.
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GROUP 740500 SPECIAL EDUCATION
This group covers R&D directed towards special education
for the handicapped or
disadvantaged children or persons within the public or
private school systems or in the workforce.
This group also includes R&D directed towards the
education and training of gifted children.
It has the one Class 740501 Special education.
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GROUP 749900 OTHER EDUCATION
This group covers R&D directed towards the other areas
of education and training,
including occupational training, continuing education,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education,
education across cultures, gender aspects of education,
education policy
and other education issues not elsewhere classified.
This group has seven classes:
749901 Occupational training
749902 Continuing education
749903 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
749904 Education across cultures
749905 Gender aspects of education
749906 Education policy
749999 Education and training not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards TAFE colleges operation
is included in
Group 740400 Vocational Education and Training.
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SUBDIVISION 750000 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
COMMUNITY SERVICES
This subdivision covers R&D directed towards community
and social services (incl. welfare)
to individuals or community groups (e.g. disabled, unemployed)
and towards social justice
and general equity.
This subdivision includes R&D directed towards arts
and leisure, justice and the law, government
and politics, international relations, heritage, communication,
religion and the understanding of past societies
and ethical issues relating to social development.
This subdivision has eleven groups:
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) Recreational services mainly of a commercial nature
(e.g. casino, cinema) is included in
Subdivision 710000 Commercial
Services and Tourism, Class 710601 Recreational services.
(b) The provision of community health services and their
associated support services is included in
the appropriate groups
in Subdivision 730000 Health.
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This group covers R&D directed towards aspects of
work, such as employment, work patterns,
the professions and preserving institutional and organisational
histories.
This group has five classes:
750101 Employment
750102 Changing work patterns
750103 The professions and professionalisation
750104 Preserving institutional and organisational histories
750199 Work not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) Industrial relations is included in Group 720400
Management and Productivity Issues,
Class 720402 Industrial
relations.
(b) Occupational health is included in Group 730200 Public
Health, Class 730208 Occupational health
(excl. economic development
aspects).
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GROUP 750200 ARTS AND LEISURE
This group covers R&D directed towards the arts and
related cultural activities.
It includes R&D directed towards:
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sport and physical endeavour or other recreation activities
not elsewhere classified
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visual arts, painting, sculpture, dance, drama, the performing
arts and music
-
music and theatre production, sound recording and the provision
of services to the arts
-
the operation of race tracks, sport grounds and facilities
and the provision of services to sport
(incl. sporting clubs)
-
the operation of parks, botanical and zoological gardens
This group has five classes:
750201 The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and
dance)
750202 The creative arts
750203 Organised sport
750204 Recreation
750299 Arts and leisure not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) Museums and art galleries is included in Group 700200
Other Information Services.
(b) Cinemas or motion picture exhibition is included
in Group 710600 Other Commercial Services,
Class 710601 Recreational
Services.
(c) Motion picture (incl. video) production and distribution
is included in Group 710600 Other Commercial Services,
Class 710699 Commercial
Services not elsewhere classified.
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GROUP 750300 COMMUNITY SERVICE
(EXCL. WORK)
This group covers R&D directed towards the provision
or delivery of community and
welfare services to individuals or to defined community
groups such as the disabled,
aged persons and single parents.
This group has thirteen classes:
750301 The distribution of wealth
750302 Class
750303 Gender
750304 The aged
750305 Ability and disability
750306 Ethnicity and multiculturalism
750307 Families
750308 National identity
750309 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development
and welfare
750310 Carers development and welfare (i.e. carers for
the aged, disabled)
750311 Migrant development and welfare
750312 Youth/child development and welfare
750399 Community service not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards community health education
is included in Group 730300 Health
and Support Services.
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GROUP 750400 RELIGION AND ETHICS
This group covers R&D directed towards the understanding
and analyses of religion and
ethical issues of concern to social, scientific or technological
development, the application of ethical or
moral theory to such issues and the development of codes
of behaviour or standards of practice for businesses,
professions and trades.
It includes R&D in bioethics or biomedical ethics
and environmental ethics.
This group has seven classes:
750401 Religion and society
750402 Religious structures and rituals
750403 Bioethics
750404 Social ethics
750405 Environmental ethics
750406 Business ethics
750499 Religion and ethics not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards ethics, moral theory
or theories of no immediate value to social,
scientific or technological development is included in
Subdivision 780000 Non-Oriented research,
Class 780112 Philosophy and religion.
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GROUP 750500 JUSTICE AND THE LAW
This group covers R&D directed towards justice and
the law.
It includes R&D in land ownership, consumer affairs,
legal processes, law enforcement
and correctional services.
This group has six classes:
750501 Ownership of the land
750502 Consumer affairs
750503 Understanding legal processes
750504 Law enforcement
750505 Correctional services
750599 Justice and the law not elsewhere classified
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GROUP 750600 GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
This group covers R&D directed towards the understanding
and analyses of government and politics.
It includes R&D directed towards the understanding
of electoral systems, civics and citizenship and public services management.
This group has six classes:
750601 Understanding political systems
750602 Understanding electoral systems
750603 Federalism in Australia
750604 Civics and citizenship
750605 Public services management
750699 Government and politics not elsewhere classified
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GROUP 750700 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
This group covers R&D directed towards improving international
relations.
This group has five classes:
750701 Understanding international relations
750702 Understanding other countries
750703 International organisations
750704 International aid
750799 International relations not elsewhere classified
Exclusions: R&D directed towards
(a) International trade or international economic relations
is included in
Group 720300 International
Trade Issues.
(b) International environmental protection issues is
included in the appropriate groups in
Subdivision 760000 Environmental
Policy Frameworks and Other Aspects.
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GROUP 750800 HERITAGE
This group covers R&D directed towards heritage issues,
such as preservation and urban and regional planning.
This group has six classes:
750801 Preserving the built environment
750802 Preserving movable cultural heritage
750803 Urban planning
750804 Regional planning
750805 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage
750899 Heritage not elsewhere classified
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GROUP 750900 UNDERSTANDING PAST
SOCIETIES
This group covers R&D directed towards the understanding
of past societies.
This group has two classes:
750901 Understanding Australia's past
750902 Understanding the pasts of other societies
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GROUP 751000 COMMUNICATION
This group covers R&D directed towards improving communication.
This group has seven classes:
751001 Languages and literature
751002 Languages and literacy
751003 Visual communication
751004 The media
751005 Communication across languages and culture
751006 Managing collections
751099 Communication not elsewhere classified
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GROUP 759900 OTHER SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
This group covers R&D directed towards social development
and community services which are not elsewhere classified.
It has the one Class 759999 Other social development and
community services.
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