Economic status and the Indigenous/non-Indigenous health gap

Alison Booth and Nick Carroll

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 99, issue 3, 604-606

Abstract: Using unique survey data, we find a significant gap in the self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The former have significantly worse health and almost half of the Indigenous health gap is explained by differences in economic variables.

Date: 2008
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