The largest ever study into mental health services in Australia has found that government programs are failing to give people in poor and remote areas equal access to help. Researchers from Monash University have recently published the results of their study on open access in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Better access to mental health care and the failure of the Medicare principle of universality looked at Medicare data relating to 25 million mental health items billed between 2007 and 2011 and found that people who lived in disadvantaged parts of metropolitan areas and rural and remote areas accessed the least number of services despite needing them the most.
Graham N Meadows, Joanne C Enticott, Brett Inder, Grant M Russell and Roger Gurr
Med J Aust 2015; 202 (4): 190-194. doi:10.5694/mja14.00330
Med J Aust 2015; 202 (4): 190-194. doi:10.5694/mja14.00330
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