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Journal article
Inequity in psychiatric healthcare use in Australia
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol.58(4), pp.605-616
2023
PMID: 35809116
Abstract
Background: Despite recent substantial mental healthcare reforms to increase the supply of healthcare, mental health inequality in Australia is rising. Understanding of the level of inequity (unmet need gap) in psychiatric service use in Australia's mixed public-private health care system is lacking.
Objective: To present a novel method to measure inequity in the delivery of psychiatric care.
Methods: Data came from wave 9 (year 2009, n = 11,563) and wave 17 (year 2017, n = 16,194) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. Multiple logistic regression was employed to estimate the psychiatric care utilisation compared to its need and the Gini index was used to estimate the standardised distribution of utilisation to measure the extent of inequity.
Results: The results show the inequity indices (need-standardised Gini) in psychiatric care utilisation were significant and found to be 0.066 and 0.096 in 2009 and 2017, respectively, for all individuals. In 2009, the inequity indices were found to be 0.051 and 0.078 for males and females, respectively, and 0.045 and 0.068 for rural and urban residents, respectively. In 2017, the indices were calculated to be 0.081 and 0.109 for males and females, respectively, and 0.086 and 0.097 for rural and urban residents, respectively.
Conclusions: This study showed a marked increase in unmet needs in psychiatric care utilisation since 2009. There is a greater need to develop policies to improve equity in psychiatric care utilisation in Australia.
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- Title
- Inequity in psychiatric healthcare use in Australia
- Authors/Creators
- Rubayyat Hashmi - University of Southern QueenslandKhorshed Alam - University of Southern QueenslandJeff Gow - University of Southern QueenslandKhurshid Alam - Murdoch University, Centre for Healthy AgeingSonja March - University of Southern Queensland
- Publication Details
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol.58(4), pp.605-616
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia CAUL
- Identifiers
- 991005567367807891
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Author(s)
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Healthy Ageing
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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