Economic status and the Indigenous/non-Indigenous health gap

Alison L. Booth*, Nick Carroll

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    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)604-606
    Number of pages3
    JournalEconomics Letters
    Volume99
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2008

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