Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.1.8–Notification of selected childhood diseases, 2021
Indicator Attributes
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, 2021 |
METEOR identifier: | 777088 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 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, 2021 Health, Standard 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 less than 15 who have been notified as having contracted measles, pertussis or invasive haemophilus influenzae type b. |
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Denominator: | Number of children less than 15 years of age. |
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Disaggregation: | Nationally, by:
Except for pertussis, numbers of notifications may be too small for reporting by state/territory. |
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Comments: | Reporting data is for the financial year 2020-21. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Disease type |
Format: | N[NNN].N |
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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 2022: Table 10A.64). |
Release date: | 23/02/2022 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Steward: | Department of Health and Aged Care |
Origin: | Productivity Commission 2022. 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 2022. Chapter 10 Primary and community health. Canberra: Productivity Commission. |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.1.8–Notification of selected childhood diseases, 2020 Health, Superseded 07/09/2023 |