Booth, Alison L and Carroll, Nick (2005) Overcrowding and Indigenous Health in Australia. Working Paper. Australian National University, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Papers.
Booth, Alison L and Carroll, Nick (2005) Overcrowding and Indigenous Health in Australia. Working Paper. Australian National University, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Papers.
Booth, Alison L and Carroll, Nick (2005) Overcrowding and Indigenous Health in Australia. Working Paper. Australian National University, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Papers.
Abstract
We use unique survey data from the 2001 National Health Survey to examine the association between overcrowding and the self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Our goal is to determine whether or not overcrowding explains why the Indigenous population has worse health than the non-Indigenous population. We find that, after we control for a number of factors, overcrowding of adults (i) appears to be associated with worse health and (ii) explains approximately 30% of the health gap between the Indigenous population living in remote areas and the non-Indigenous population.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | self-assessed health; Indigenous health; overcrowding |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
Depositing User: | Jim Jamieson |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2012 12:19 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2012 12:19 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/3135 |