Distress and mental health service rates by socio-economic and geographic measures: Australian and Canadian comparison
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2015
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Enticott, Joanne
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Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University.
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Australia and Canada are both high-income countries with health care systems that aspire towards
universality. If this aspiration is being fulfilled then we would see more equity of access to mental
health services, especially for those in low socioeconomic populations and those living outside of
major cities. Mental illness is associated with socioeconomic factors and service utilisation is also
associated with geography, but population-level information on this is limited. This study used
national surveys and national health service activity data from Australia and Canada, and aimed to
better understand factors affecting equitable access to mental health care.
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