Emily J. Callander

Nov 3, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Emily J. Callander |Debra Bick |Hema Mistry

1 INTRODUCTION Maternity care is challenged by increasing rates of high cost medical interventions in low-risk service users without demonstrable improvement in health outcomes, and with evidence of significant long-term harm, including negative effects on physical, mental, and social, well-being for birthing people postpregnancy, as well as negative developmental effects for children over their lifetime.1, 2 Combined with low levels of satisfaction with care,3 rapidly escalating costs,4 and...

Apr 2, 2023 | mja.com.au | Emily J. Callander

Med J Aust || doi: 10.5694/mja2.51895 Published online: 3 April 2023 Out‐of‐pocket fees create access barriers to health care, exacerbating health inequalities In Australia, 15% of all expenditure on health care comes directly from individuals in the form of out‐of‐pocket fees — this is almost double the amount contributed by private health insurers.1 There is concern that vulnerable groups — socio‐economically disadvantaged people and older Australians in particular, who also have higher...

Apr 2, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Emily J. Callander

JEL Classification Health services administrationSocial Determinants of Health In Australia, 15% of all expenditure on health care comes directly from individuals in the form of out-of-pocket fees — this is almost double the amount contributed by private health insurers.1 There is concern that vulnerable groups — socio-economically disadvantaged people and older Australians in particular, who also have higher health care needs — are spending larger proportions of their incomes on...