by 2018, increase by five percentage points the proportion of Australian adults and Australian children at a healthy body weight, over the 2009 baseline by 2018, reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent of the population and halve the Indigenous smoking rate, over the 2009 baseline Better health services by 2014-15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006-07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions the rate of (including MRSA) bacteraemia is no Staphylococcus aureus more than 2.0 per 10 000 occupied bed days for acute care public hospitals by 2011-12 in each State and Territory. [NHA para. 18] Outlined below are the performance benchmarks, any associated issues, and data for the current reporting year. Links are provided to the related NHA outcome and, where relevant, to the related performance indicator. Performance benchmark (a) Better health: close the life expectancy — gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation
by 2018, increase by five percentage points the proportion of Australian adults and Australian children at a healthy body weight, over the 2009 baseline by 2018, reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent of the population and halve the Indigenous smoking rate, over the 2009 baseline Better health services by 2014-15, improve the provision of primary care and reduce the proportion of potentially preventable hospital admissions by 7.6 per cent over the 2006-07 baseline to 8.5 per cent of total hospital admissions the rate of Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) bacteraemia is no more than 2.0 per 10 000 occupied bed days for acute care public hospitals by 2011-12 in each State and Territory. [NHA para. 18] Outlined below are the performance benchmarks, any associated issues, and data for the current reporting year. Links are provided to the related NHA outcome and, where relevant, to the related performance indicator. Performance benchmark (a) — Better health: close the life expectancy gap for Indigenous Australians within a generation
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