Indigenous primary health care: PI14a-Number of regular clients aged 50 years and over who are immunised against influenza, 2015
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Output measure |
| Short name: | PI14a-Number of regular clients aged 50 years and over who are immunised against influenza, 2015 |
| METEOR identifier: | 589051 |
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| Description: | Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 50 years and over and who are immunised against influenza. |
| Rationale: | Influenza remains a major cause of illness and death among Indigenous adults. Vaccination has been demonstrated to reduce deaths. |
| Indicator set: | Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators (2015) Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Indigenous, Superseded 20/01/2017 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | 50 years |
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| Computation description: | Count of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 50 years and over and who are immunised against influenza. ‘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. For Indigenous people aged 50 years and over, the Australian Immunisation Handbook (DoH 2013) recommends immunisation against influenza. An Indigenous person aged 50 years and over is immunised against influenza if they have received an influenza vaccine in the previous year. Presented as a number. |
| Computation: | Numerator only |
| Numerator: | Number of regular clients who are Indigenous, aged 50 years and over and who are immunised against influenza. |
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| Disaggregation: | 1. Sex: |
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Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Count |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Effective/Appropriate/Efficient |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | Indigenous primary health care data collection Frequency 6 monthly Data custodian Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Department of Health |
| Reference documents: | DoH (Australian Government Department of Health) 2013. Vaccination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australian Immunisation Handbook, 10th Edition. Canberra: DoH. Viewed 28 October 2014, <http://www.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/handbook10-3-1>. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Indigenous primary health care: PI14a-Number of regular clients aged 50 years and over who are immunised against influenza, 2014
Has been superseded by Indigenous primary health care: PI14a-Number of regular clients aged 50 years and over who are immunised against influenza, 2015-2017
See also Indigenous primary health care: PI14b-Proportion of regular clients aged 50 years and over who are immunised against influenza, 2015
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