Indigenous primary health care: PI09a-Number of regular clients whose smoking status has been recorded, 2012
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Output measure |
| Short name: | PI09a-Number of regular clients whose smoking status has been recorded, 2012 |
| METEOR identifier: | 431125 |
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| Description: | NOTE: THIS PERFORMANCE INDICATOR HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY ITS EQUIVALENT FOR 2013, WITHOUT BEING MADE A STANDARD. Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded at the primary health care service. |
| Rationale: | Smoking has been identified as one of the key risk factors contributing to the burden of disease for Indigenous Australians. It is important that Indigenous primary health care services know the smoking status of clients in order to provide appropriate medical care. |
| Indicator set: | Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators (2012) |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | 15 years |
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| Computation description: | Count of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded at the primary health care service. ‘Regular client’ refers to a client of an OATSIH-funded primary health care service (that is required to report against the Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators) who has an active medical record; that is, a client who has attended the OATSIH-funded primary health care service at least 3 times in 2 years. Results arising from measurements conducted outside of the service, that are known by the service, are included in the calculation of this indicator. Presented as a number. |
| Computation: | Numerator only. |
| Numerator: | Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 15 years and over and whose smoking status has been recorded at the primary health care service. |
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| Disaggregation: | 1. Sex: 2. Age: |
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Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Count |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Health Behaviours |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Indigenous primary health care: PI09a-Number of regular clients whose smoking status has been recorded, 2013
See also Indigenous primary health care: PI09b-Proportion of regular clients whose smoking status has been recorded, 2012
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