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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of figures and tables

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

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