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dc.contributor.authorVecchio, Nerina
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Debbie
dc.contributor.authorRohde, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-02T04:08:48Z
dc.date.available2019-08-02T04:08:48Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0202559
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/382939
dc.description.abstractThis paper estimates the influence of inadequate access to healthcare services on the rate of Emergency Room (ER) hospital visits in Australia. We take micro-data on different types of healthcare shortfalls from the 2012 Australian Survey of Disability, Aging and Carers, and employ Propensity Score Matching (PSM) techniques to identify their effects on ER visits. We find that shortfalls in access to various medical services increases ER visits for individuals with mental and physical conditions by about the same degree. Conversely, inadequate community care services significantly predict ER visits for individuals with physical conditions, but not for persons with mental conditions. The lack of predictive power for inadequate community care for persons with mental health problems is surprising, as “acopia” is thought to be a significant driver of crises that require emergency treatment. We discuss some of the mechanisms that may underpin this finding and address the policy implications of our results. Lastly a number of robustness checks and diagnostics tests are presented which confirm that our modelling assumptions are not violated and that our results are insensitive to the choice of matching algorithms.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.relation.ispartofissue8
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPLoS One
dc.relation.ispartofvolume13
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEmergency medicine
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode320207
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.titleThe effect of inadequate access to healthcare services on emergency room visits. A comparison between physical and mental health conditions
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Vecchio et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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gro.griffith.authorRohde, Nicholas


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