Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.1.8–Notification of selected childhood diseases, 2020
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | AHPF PI 3.1.8–Notification of selected childhood diseases, 2020 |
| METEOR identifier: | 728412 |
| Registration status: |
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| Description: | The rate of children aged less than 15 notified as having selected vaccine preventable diseases. |
| Rationale: | The Immunise Australia program has had a substantial influence on reducing rates for a wide variety of communicable diseases. Despite this progress, outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases can still occur. |
| Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2020 Health, Standard 13/10/2021 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | Birth |
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| Population group age to: | 14 years |
| Computation description: | The rate per 100,000 children aged less than 15 notified as having selected vaccine preventable diseases. |
| Computation: | 100,000 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
| Numerator: | Number of children aged 0 to 14 who have been notified as having contracted measles, pertussis or invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b. |
| Numerator data elements: | |
| Denominator: | Number of children under15 years of age. |
| Denominator data elements: | |
| Disaggregation: | Nationally, by:
Except for pertussis, numbers of notifications are too small for reporting by age group, sex or Indigenous status, and may also involve suppressions by state/territory. |
| Disaggregation data elements: | |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Rate |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Disease type |
| Format: | N[NNN].N |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) Frequency Annual Data custodian Australian Government Department of Health |
Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | Australian Health Performance Framework |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Government Department of Health |
| Accountability: | Australian Government Department of Health |
| Further data development / collection required: | Mumps and other vaccine preventable communicable diseases could be considered for addition to the numerator. |
| Other issues caveats: | The 3 vaccine preventable diseases selected for this indicator are the 3 currently reported by the Productivity Commission. Available diagnostic tools make it uncommon for cases of measles or invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b to go undiagnosed, however, diagnosis of pertussis cannot always be confirmed using available tools (Productivity Commission 2019: Table 10A.57) |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Steward: | Department of Health |
| Origin: | Productivity Commission 2019. Final report 2019 Chapter 10 Primary and community health. Canberra: Productivity Commission. |
| Reference documents: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2015. National youth information framework (NYIF) indicators vaccine-preventable diseases. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Productivity Commission 2019. Final report 2019 Chapter 10 Primary and community health. Canberra: Productivity Commission. |