Estimating the future health and aged care expenditure in Australia with changes in morbidity.

AIMS:We estimate the pure effect of ageing on total health and aged care expenditure in Australia in the next 20 years. METHODS:We use a simple demographic projection model for the number of people in older age groups along with a needs based estimate of changes in the public and private cost of car...

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Main Authors: Anthony Harris, Anurag Sharma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6084938?pdf=render