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Indigenous health expenditure deficits obscured in Closing the Gap reports
Author(s) -
Alford Katrina A
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja15.00349
Subject(s) - closing (real estate) , indigenous , citation , history , library science , computer science , political science , law , ecology , biology
Private health insurance $138 million Imedical indicators and reports on Indigenous Australians’ health. The Australian Government’s Closing the Gap strategy seeks health equality for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander peoples. However, neglecting the economics of the strategy perpetuates poor system performance as financial and resource constraints on individuals, and increasingly on the public health system, are ignored.