Health Systems Research -- Health Inequalities
It is now widely recognized that inequalities in health exist in almost all countries as people who have lower socio-economic status generally have higher rates of morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this research is to gain an understanding of how health inequalities and inequalities in access to care in Australia compare with other countries and how they are changing over time. A key focus of this research is methodological in that it attempts to understand the properties of current measures used to quantify inequalities (e.g. concentration index) and to develop new techniques for measuring inequalities.
Researchers Involved
- Philip Clarke
- Alison Hayes
- Edmund Fitzgerald
Selected Publications
Clarke P. and Smith L., “More or less equal? Comparing Australian income-related inequality in self-reported health with other industrialized countries”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol 24. pp. 370-374, 2000.
Clarke PM. Gerdtham UG. Johannesson M. Bingefors K. and Smith L., “On the measurement of relative and absolute income-related health inequality, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 55, pp. 1923-1928, 2002.
Van Doorslaer, E. Clarke P, Savage E, Hall J. “Horizontal inequities in Australia’s mixed public/private health care system, Health Policy (accepted Sept 2007)