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Economics of health

Databases | Government sites | Organisations | E-texts

Databases

AIDS Economics Bibliographic Search
AIDS Economics maintains a searchable database of new and important publications relevant to the economics of HIV/AIDS.

University of Sydney Databases
ABI Inform (Full text)
Bibliographic references and abstracts, with partial full text provision, to journal articles covering business, industry and management.
APAIS-Health
Produced by the National Library of Australia this database focuses on items of relevance to the health industry. It covers the legal, social, economical and ethical aspects of health but does not cover clinical medicine.
ECONLIT
Bibliographic references and abstracts to articles in journals, books, higher degree theses, articles from collective volumes (e.g. conference proceedings, research papers), book reviews and economic working papers on economics.
Medline
i) Search a specific disease and limit by choosing the subheading economics
ii) Use economics as a subject ie. Economics/ Economics,hospital/ Cost of Illness/ Health Care Costs/ Socioeconomic Factors/ etc.
Meditext
Includes the Australian Medical Index. Use the same subject headings as Medline.

Government sites

Department of Health and Aged Care
Casemix in Australia which includes hospital cost data. Public Health Outcome Funding are bilateral funding agreements between the Commonwealth and each State and Territory which provide broad banded and special purpose funding from the Commonwealth to the States and Territories for a range of public health programs.

Organisations

Australian Private Hospitals Association
Future Financial Impact of the Current Health Financing System.

World Bank
Health Nutrition and Population information.

E-texts

Australian Institute of Health publications
Titles include:
Health system expenditures on cancer and other neoplasms in Australia 2000-01.
Health care expenditure and the burden of disease due to Asthma in Australia.
Health expenditure Australia 2004-05.
National public health expenditure report 2001-02 to 2003-04.
Cardiovascular disease - Health care expenditure 2000-01.
Disease costing methodology used in the disease costs and impact study 1993-94.
Health expenditure for arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions in Australia, 2000-01.

NHMRC Publications
How to compare the costs and benefits: evaluation of the economic evidence