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Health policy and horizontal inequities of health-care utilization in Australia: 1983-2005

Date

Authors

Hajizadeh, Mohammad

Connelly, Luke

Butler, James

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

We used five National Health Surveys (NHSs) in order to measure horizontal inequity (equal health care for equal need) in health-care utilization in Australia over five time points from 1983 to 2005. The direct standardization method was used to estimate

Keywords

Keywords: health care; health insurance; health policy; implementation process; Australia Australia; health policy; health-care utilization; horizontal inequity

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/67858

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Applied Economics Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1080/13504851.2012.659337

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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