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Did General Practice Health Assessments of Older Australians improve Equity?
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posted on 2023-05-16, 20:50 authored by Gill, GF, Dominic Geraghty, Desmond FitzGeraldDesmond FitzGeraldObjective: To examine if claims for general practice health assessments of older persons in Australia over the period 1 November 1999 to 30 September 2002 were equitably distributed. Design: Closed cohort study with data analysis using logistic regression. Setting: Private general practice in Australia. Participants: All Australians aged 75 or more years at 1 October 1999, who were eligible to claim for a health assessment. Measures studied: Medicare and Department of Veterans' Affairs (OVA) medical claims data, and personal characteristics of claimants: age, sex, OVA beneficiary status, rurality and socio-economic status of postcode of residence. Rurality was classified by the Rural Remote and Metropolitan Area Classification (RRMA) and socio-economic status by the Index of Relative Socio-economic Deprivation (IRSD) for the postcode. Results: The cohort initially contained 886 185 subjects. Over the 35 months, 271 939 individuals (31%) claimed at least one health assessment. Those most likely to have claimed for a health assessment were aged 80 to 84 years, female, entitled to treatment under OVAarrangements, lived in postcodes classified as RRMA 1-4 and classified as the most disadvantaged IRSD quartile.
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Publication title
Australian Health ReviewVolume
32Pagination
488-493ISSN
0156-5788Department/School
School of Health SciencesPublisher
Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty. Ltd.Place of publication
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