Equity in access to zero-fees and low-cost Primary Health Care in Aotearoa New Zealand: Results from repeated waves of the New Zealand Health Survey, 1996-2016

Mona Jeffreys, Maite Irurzun Lopez, Lynne Russell, Kirsten Smiler, Lis Ellison-Loschmann, Michael Thomson and Jacqueline Cumming

Health Policy, 2020, vol. 124, issue 11, 1272-1279

Abstract: Primary Health Care in Aotearoa New Zealand is mainly funded through capitation-based funding to general practices, supplemented by a user co-payment. Funding is designed in part to keep the costs of care low for key groups in the population who have higher health needs. We investigated changes in the socio-demographic determinants of no-cost and low-cost access to Primary Health Care using data from sequential waves of the New Zealand Health Survey (1996/97–2016/17). Fees paid were self-reported and inflated using CPI-adjustment to the value of the 2018NZD.

Keywords: Primary health care; Fees; Medical; Health equity; Health expenditures; Out of pocket payments; Co-payments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.08.009

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