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A cost-based equity weight for use in the economic evaluation of primary health care interventions: case study of the Australian Indigenous population
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* Corresponding author: Katherine S Ong ongk@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
1 Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Carlton Victoria 3010, Australia
2 Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit and Centre for Health and Society, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Carlton Victoria 3010, Australia
3 Deakin Health Economics, Public Health Research Evaluation and Policy Cluster, Deakin University, Burwood Highway, Burwood Victoria 3125, Australia
International Journal for Equity in Health 2009, 8:34 doi:10.1186/1475-9276-8-34
Published: 7 October 2009Additional files
Additional file 1:
The Indigenous Health Service Delivery (IHSD) Template. A brief outline of work in progress towards development of a template detailing differences in primary health care service delivery between Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) and mainstream general practitioner services in Australia, for use in economic evaluations.
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Additional file 2:
Case study - development and application of a cost-side equity weight for the Australian Indigenous population. A numerical example of how cost-based equity weights for the economic evaluation of primary health care services could be developed for the Indigenous population, based on the processes of care, and then employed.
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