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23 May 2016 - Page 15 updated, first paragraph, last sentence removed 'Results at the SA1 level are available from the AIHW on request.'
Access to primary health care relative to need for Indigenous Australians
Publication
Release Date:
Topic: First Nations people
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) Access to primary health care relative to need for Indigenous Australians, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 29 September 2023.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2014). Access to primary health care relative to need for Indigenous Australians. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Access to primary health care relative to need for Indigenous Australians. AIHW, 2014.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Access to primary health care relative to need for Indigenous Australians. Canberra: AIHW; 2014.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2014, Access to primary health care relative to need for Indigenous Australians, AIHW, Canberra.
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This paper describes the development, and presents the results, of an area-based index that measures access to General Practitioners relative to the need for primary health care for both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations of Australia. The Access Relative to Need index is able to explain more of the variation in health outcomes than measures of access to GPs alone. Indigenous people experience a general pattern of worsening access to GPs relative to need with increasing remoteness. A less dramatic decrease by remoteness is noted in the non-Indigenous population.
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-586-6
- Cat. no: IHW 128
- Pages: 45
Findings from this report:
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The AIHW has developed a geospatial index which measures access to health services relative to need for health care
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Indigenous people generally have worse access to GPs relative to need in remoter areas
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Non-Indigenous people in very remote areas tend to live in SA1s with higher access to GPs than Indigenous people
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Access to primary health care relative to need is a key factor underlying geographic variation in health outcomes