This paper describes the structure of the Cost Benefit Model of Diabetes Prevention and Care and lists the data sources used and assumptions embedded in the model. Agnes Walker, Stephen Colagiuri and Michele McLennan validate the model through checks of model outputs against data published by other organisations. They also discuss the sensitivity of model...

Late in 2000 NATSEM was awarded a three-year Australian Research Council Strategic Partnership with Industry Research and Training (SPIRT) grant. Among other things, the grant involves adding an indicator of socioeconomic status to patient-based hospitals administrative datasets for New South Wales over the period 1996-97 to 1999-00, in which expenditures have been allocated to each...

Characteristics of NSW Hospital Users in 1998-99 reports on unique evidence from a combined dataset regarding the socioeconomic, demographic, distributional, health and spatial characteristics of those NSW residents who used NSW private or public hospital services in 1998-99. Questions addressed in the paper include: who benefited most and least that year from government funding to...