Economic Status and the Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Health Gap

Booth, Alison; Carroll, Nick

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Economic Status and the Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Health Gap

Date

2008

Authors

Booth, Alison

Carroll, Nick

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Using unique survey data, we find a significant gap in the self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The former have significantly worse health and almost half of the Indigenous health gap is explained by differences in economic variables.