Strengthening Medicare: Will increasing the bulk-billing rate and supply of general practitioners increase access to Medicare-funded general practitioner services and does rurality matter?

Australia and New Zealand Health Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Day, Susan E ^a   Alford, Katrina ^a   Dunt, David ^a   Peacock, Stuart ^b   Gurrin, Lyle ^a   Voaklander, Don ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNDING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; MEDICARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 33845207122     PISSN: 17438462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-2-18     Document Type: Article

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