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Variation in public‐funded bariatric surgery intervention rate by New Zealand region
Author(s) -
Murphy Rinki,
Ghafel Mazin,
Beban Grant,
Booth Michael,
Bartholomew Karen,
Sandiford Peter
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.14226
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , public health , obesity surgery , geographic variation , morbid obesity , variation (astronomy) , population , intervention (counseling) , surgery , general surgery , environmental health , gastric bypass , weight loss , nursing , physics , astrophysics
Inequitable access to bariatric surgery by geographical region has been reported internationally, but comparable data on provision of bariatric surgery have not previously been reported in New Zealand. We examined allocated funding and provision of bariatric surgery amongst different regions in New Zealand in the 2013/14 year, and found that there was large variation in both. This highlights that public funded bariatric surgery needs to take into account population prevalence of morbid obesity to reduce inequities by geographical region.