Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344745

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0344745

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Private Health Insurance and Utilisation of Health Care in Australia. The breakdown of activity between the Australian public and private health sectors is currently subject to considerable scrutiny. The combination of a comprehensive public system with minimal co-payments, but considerable waiting times for some treatment, and a private system with minimal waiting but sizeable co-payments has interesting economic implications for both consumer and provider behaviour. This research project will explore the relationship between insurance status and utilisation of health care in Australia. Because insurance reduces the out-of-pocket price for consumers, they tend to purchase more care than they would without insurance.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2004

End Date: 06-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $75,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industry Economics And Industrial Organisation | Health Economics | Panel Data Analysis | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial organisations | Health policy economic outcomes

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