Spatial variation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to primary health care
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2015) Spatial variation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to primary health care, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 29 March 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). Spatial variation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to primary health care. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Spatial variation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to primary health care. AIHW, 2015.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Spatial variation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to primary health care. Canberra: AIHW; 2015.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2015, Spatial variation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to primary health care, AIHW, Canberra.
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The report shows that overall, Australian Government funded Indigenous-specific primary health-care services appear to be well positioned relative to the geographic distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to the distribution of other GP services. However, there are a number of areas where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have very limited access to both Indigenous-specific services and GP services in general.
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-758-7
- Cat. no: IHW 155
- Pages: 65
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Remote and very remote areas have more Indigenous-specific primary health care services per 1,000 Indigenous people
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Indigenous people in remote and very remote areas have to travel further to access primary health care services
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40 SA2s were identified as “service gap areas” in which Indigenous people had limited access to primary health care
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10 of the service gaps areas have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations of at least 600