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Access to health services by Australians with disability 2012

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Release Date: 04 Jun 2015
Topic: Disability services
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2015) Access to health services by Australians with disability 2012, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 23 March 2023.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). Access to health services by Australians with disability 2012. Canberra: AIHW.

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This report uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2012 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers to examine the level of access to a range of health services by Australians with disability living in the community.

  • ISSN: 1446-9820
  • ISBN: 978-1-74249-739-6
  • Cat. no: AUS 191
  • Pages: 24
Findings from this report:
  • 17% of people with disability who needed to see a GP delayed or did not go because of the cost

  • 20% of people with disability who needed to see a medical specialist did not go mainly because of the cost

  • 67% of people with disability who needed to see a dentist delayed seeing or did not go because of the cost

  • People with disability living in Outer regional and Remote areas faced more barriers to accessing health services

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