Differential impacts of health care in Australia: trend analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality
Author(s) -
Rosemary Korda,
John R. Butler,
Mark Clements,
Stephen J. Kunitz
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyl282
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , inequality , environmental health , health care , medicine , social class , public health , demography , population , economic growth , economics , sociology , nursing , market economy , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Recent avoidable mortality trends in Australia suggest that health care has made a substantial contribution to reducing mortality. This study investigates if the benefits of health care have been distributed equally by comparing declines in avoidable with non-avoidable mortality over time by socioeconomic status (SES).
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