Report Archive

Research and reports we’ve produced

Health and disability, Closing the gap Clare Maxwell Health and disability, Closing the gap Clare Maxwell

Measuring the Gap in Health Expenditure: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

Equity Economics, in partnership with the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), undertook an analysis of the gap in health expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In order to calculate the gap, we accounted for the burden of disease, which is more than twice the rate for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population than for the non-Indigenous population.

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Health and disability Clare Maxwell Health and disability Clare Maxwell

Towards a strengthened rare disease workforce for Australia

Australia’s first nationally coordinated effort to address rare diseases—the National Strategic Action Plan for Rare Diseases —called for the development of a national rare disease workforce strategy that responds to current and future demands, including the impact of genomics. This White Paper is an initial step to progress that priority.

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Health and disability Clare Maxwell Health and disability Clare Maxwell

Funding Rare Disease Therapies in Australia

Seven years ago, Equity Economics prepared a report for the McKell Institute’s: Funding Rare Disease Therapies in Australia – Ensuring equitable access to health for all Australians. The report placed the issue of inequities in access to new medicines for the one in eight Australians that live with a rare disease on the national policy agenda.

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