How fair is Medicare? The income-related distribution of Medicare benefits with special focus on chronic care items

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 197, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 625-630

  Knott, Rachel J ^a   Cass, Alan ^b   Heeley, Emma L ^b   Chalmers, John P ^b   Peiris, David P ^b   Clarke, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEDICARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; INCOME; LONG TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCOME; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84987811355     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.10514     Document Type: Article

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