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Assessing the benefits of medical innovation—its impact on health outcomes—is as important as assessing the costs … that investigates the benefits and costs of another broad category of medical innovation—inpatient therapeutic procedure … innovation—using data on over one million hospital discharges. …
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breast cancer diagnosis. The sample includes women living in urban and rural Australia. The study found that after a breast …
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Using data from waves 3, 7 and 9 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, a group … nativity health gap in Australia. We investigated whether differences exist in the reporting of any chronic condition … both ES and NES countries living in Australia for less than 20 years were significantly less likely to report a chronic …
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Information System for all suicides in Australia from 2004 to 2008. Scan statistics were initially used to identify those deaths … capital city, or living in the northern part of Australia (in particular, Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia …
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The increasing prominence of the private sector in health care provision has generated considerable interest in understanding its implications on quality and cost. This paper investigates the phenomenon of cream skimming in a mixed public-private hospital setting using the novel approach of...
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This cross-cultural qualitative study examined the ethical, language and cultural complexities around offering fetal anomaly screening in Australian Aboriginal communities. There were five study sites across the Northern Territory (NT), including urban and remote Aboriginal communities. In-depth...
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Public discourses have influence on policymaking for emerging health issues. Media representations of unfolding events, scientific uncertainty, and real and perceived risks shape public acceptance of health policy and therefore policy outcomes. To characterize and track views in popular...
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The objective was to develop and test a framework based on a biopsychosocial model that can be used to identify factors associated with subjective (self-estimated) life expectancy (SLE). SLE predicts important work and retirement decisions so a better understanding of the factors that contribute...
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People on low-income living in low socio-economic neighbourhoods have poorer health in comparison with those living in advantaged neighbourhoods. To explore neighbourhood effects on health and social capital creation, the experiences of low-income people living in contrasting socio-economic...
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and promotional material on the vaginal ring, newly introduced into Australia and on the transdermal patch, which is … unavailable in Australia. Respondents completed 32 choice sets with 3 product options where each option was described by a product …
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