Sentences with phrase «greater access to primary health care»

The Close the Gap Campaign is urging the Federal Government to focus on greater access to primary health care services to detect, treat and manage chronic health conditions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Not exact matches

For example, quantifying the Medicare Benefit Scheme spending shortfall on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has provided a basis for quantifying the primary health care shortfall and stimulated initiatives to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enjoy greater access to Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

The interrelation between disadvantage, poor health, low rates of primary care, and greater use of emergency facilities is found even within universal access health care systems, suggesting that factors in addition to financial affordability impact children's health care.

For example, given that Indigenous peoples» poorer health status would indicate a greater need for primary health care services, it is disturbing that in 2004 it was estimated that Indigenous peoples enjoyed 40 % of the per capita access of the non-Indigenous population to primary health care provided by mainstream general practitioners.