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Registration status:![]() | Health, Superseded 07/09/2023 |
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Indicator set:![]() | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2020 Health, Superseded 11/07/2023 |
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. |
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Denominator:![]() | Number of children under15 years of age. |
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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. |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class:![]() | Rate |
Data type:![]() | Real |
Unit of measure:![]() | Disease type |
Format:![]() | N[NNN].N |
Data source attributes | |
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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 and Aged Care |
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. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Has been superseded by Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.1.8–Notification of selected childhood diseases, 2021 Health, Standard 07/09/2023 |