Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Health status
- Access and equity
- Quality of care
- Small area analysis
- Australian studies of variation
- Purposes of this study
- 2. Method
- Development of the mappings
- Data collection
- Public patients
- Private patients
- Merging public and private data
- Data analysis
- Insurance status
- Statistical tests
- Cesarean section
- Limitations of the data
- 3. Results
- Rates for mainland Australia
- Cesarean section
- 4. Discussion
- National rates
- Variability at State/Territory level
- Variability within States at statistical division (SD) level
- Variability within SDs at statistical subdivision (SSD) level
- Variability across capital cities
- Variability between metropolitan/non-metropolitan areas
- Cesarean section
- Variability at SD level
- Variability at SSD level
- Variability between metropolitan/non-metropolitan areas
- Summary
- Possible causal factors
- 5. References
- Appendixes
- A. Mappings for selected surgical procedures
- B. Area of usual residence c n1versions
- C. Notes on statistical procedures and tests for analysing surgery rates
- D. Other limitations of the data