From population numbers to population needs: Incorporating epidemiological change into health service planning in Australia

Sabrina Lenzen and Stephen Birch

Social Science & Medicine, 2023, vol. 328, issue C

Abstract: In the face of rapidly ageing populations and increasing costs of health care provision, questions continue to be raised about the long-term sustainability of publicly funded health care programmes around the world. But despite increasing evidence of dynamic changes in epidemiology, most official health service planning models continue to rely on the implicit assumption that age-specific requirements for services (and by implication age-specific needs for care) will remain constant across future years (‘constant-use models').

Keywords: Health service planning; Needs-based; HILDA; Cohort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115972

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