Indigenous-specific primary health care: PI10a-Number of Indigenous regular clients who have a smoking status result within specified categories, December 2020
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Output measure |
| Short name: | PI10a-Number of Indigenous regular clients who have a smoking status result within specified categories, December 2020 |
| METEOR identifier: | 739370 |
| Registration status: |
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| Description: | Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 15 and over whose smoking status has been recorded within the previous 24 months as one of the following:
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| 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 organisations know the smoking status of clients in order to provide appropriate medical care. |
| Indicator set: | Indigenous-specific primary health care national key performance indicators December 2020 Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Population group age from: | 15 years and over. |
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| Computation description: | Count of Indigenous regular clients aged 15 and over whose smoking status has been recorded within the previous 24 months as one of the following:
Presented as a number. Operationalisation of smoking status: Where an Indigenous regular client’s tobacco smoking status does not have an assessment date assigned within the Clinical Information System (CIS), smoking status as recorded in the CIS should be treated as current (i.e. as having been updated within the previous 24 months). Calculated separately for each smoking status. |
| Computation: | Numerator only. |
| Numerator: | Calculation A: Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 15 and over whose smoking status has been recorded as 'current smoker' within the previous 24 months. Calculation B: Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 15 and over whose smoking status has been recorded as 'ex-smoker' within the previous 24 months. Calculation C: Number of Indigenous regular clients aged 15 and over whose smoking status has been recorded as 'never smoked' within the previous 24 months. |
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| Disaggregation: | 1. 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: | Health Behaviours |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | Indigenous-specific primary health care national Key Performance Indicators (nKPI) 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. Australian Government Department of Health. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Indigenous primary health care: PI10a-Number of regular clients with a smoking status result, June 2020
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