Indigenous-specific primary health care: PI14a-Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 6 months and over who are immunised against influenza, December 2020
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Output measure |
| Short name: | PI14a-Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 6 months and over who are immunised against influenza, December 2020 |
| METEOR identifier: | 731851 |
| Registration status: | Indigenous, Superseded 03/07/2022 |
| Description: | Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 6 months and over who received an influenza vaccine within the previous 12 months. |
| Rationale: | Influenza is the most common vaccine-preventable disease in Australia. Although it can be a mild disease, it can also cause very serious illness in otherwise healthy people. It can require hospitalisation and can cause death. Rates of influenza are higher among Indigenous Australians than non-Indigenous Australians. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | 6 months |
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| Population group age to: | 65 years and over |
| Computation description: | Count of Indigenous regular clients aged 6 months and over who received an influenza vaccine within the previous 12 months. Presented as a number. |
| Computation: | Numerator only |
| Numerator: | Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 6 months and over who received an influenza vaccine within the previous 12 months. |
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| Disaggregation: | Sex: 2. Age group: |
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| Comments: | Census date for reporting is 31 December 2020. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Count |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | N[N(6)] |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Effective/Appropriate/Efficient |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | Funding agreements between the Department of Health and the organisations funded under the Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP). |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Indigenous-specific primary health care organisations or maternal and child health programs/services funded by the Department of Health under its Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP), referred to as funded organisations. |
| Accountability: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare/Department of Health. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Reference documents: | Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) 2018. Australian Immunisation Handbook. Australian Government Department of Health, Canberra. immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au. |
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, June 2020 Health, Retired 13/10/2021 Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021 Has been superseded by Indigenous-specific primary health care: PI14a-Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 6 months and over who are immunised against influenza, June 2021 Indigenous, Superseded 06/11/2022 |