Health Expenditure, Income and Health Status Among Indigenous and Other Australians

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and acronyms

Executive summary

Equity issues: comparing like with like

Estimating per capita health expenditure by income—method and data issues

Per capita health expenditure by income and Indigenous origin

Health status by equivalent income

Discussion

1. Background issues

Healthy Expenditure?

Data sources

A caveat

Equity issues: comparing like with like

Expenditure, income and health status

2. Indigenous health status in perspective

Infant mortality

Life expectancy

Mortality—rates and causes

Morbidity

Reported illness and health status

Health risk factors

3. Comparing like with like: analysis by income

Estimating access to resources using equivalent income

Estimating per capita health expenditure by income—method and data issues

4. Per capita health expenditure by income and Indigenous origin

5. Further information on the usage of health services by equivalent income

6. Health status by equivalent income

7. Conclusion

A. Construction of utilisation rates using the 1995 National Health Survey

B. Distribution of health expenditure by equivalent income

C. Estimates of cost per medical service

D. Method for estimation of standard errors and confidence intervals

Approximation of standard errors using the binomial formula and a design effect

Combining standard errors for confidence intervals

I. References

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