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Projecting The Fiscal Impact Of Population Ageing On The Hospital System: A Distributional Analysis, Linc Thurecht, Agnes Walker, Ann Harding, Edwin J. Pearse Jan 2003

Projecting The Fiscal Impact Of Population Ageing On The Hospital System: A Distributional Analysis, Linc Thurecht, Agnes Walker, Ann Harding, Edwin J. Pearse

Sydney Business School - Papers

This study examines the socioeconomic status of NSW hospital patients in 1999-00 and projects likely hospital costs to 2009-10. It draws upon unique patient based datasets from NSW public and private hospitals that include hospital admissions, as well as the associated treatment costs in each of the four years to 1999-00. Using a novel method, we impute socioeconomic status to each patient, accounting for age, sex, family income, family size and the geographic area of the patient’s residence at the Census Collector District level. First, we use the 1999-00 dataset to examine whether patients of similar age had similar per …


Creating Connections - Health, Community And Residential Care Assessments, Kathy Eagar Jan 2003

Creating Connections - Health, Community And Residential Care Assessments, Kathy Eagar

Sydney Business School - Papers

Health - multiple program and service types. - primary, secondary, tertiary and super-speciality levels Community Care - multiple programs and service types -including extended aged care in the home packages Residential Care -residential programs with various levels of care