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Unconnected and out-of-sight: Identifying health care non-users with unmet needs
While current debates on how to deliver sustainable health care recognise socio-economic dimensions to health service use, attention has focussed on how to reduce demand for services. However, the measures of demand may not account for a subgroup of the population who to date have remained out of sight because they do not access health...
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Costs of paying higher prices for equivalent effects on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
Abstract The aims of the present study were to illustrate and discuss the effects of the non-maintenance of equivalent prices when the comparators of pharmaceuticals listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) on a cost-minimisation basis come off-patent and are subject to statutory price reductions, as well as further potential price reductions because of the...
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Translating a health service intervention into a rural setting: lessons learned
This article discusses the limited existing research on the process of applying knowledge translation methodology to a rural-based population health intervention and a project that attempted to implement a co-created framework to address musculoskeletal conditions in Port Lincoln, South Australia.