Financing, funding and organisation of health and care in Australia

The Health Care Organisation and Financing SIG brings together researchers interested in how health, aged care and disability care systems are funded, organised and delivered, with a focus on how policy, market structures and provider incentives influence access, costs and health outcomes.

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The SIG will include members interested in the financing and organisation of health care, aged care, and disability care. This includes those undertaking research examining the impact of changes in the supply-side (see below) on provider behaviour, access, costs and health outcomes. Research will typically draw on labour economics, industrial organisation, public economics, and applied micro-econometrics and causal inference, as well as other disciplinary approaches (e.g. implementation science).

Areas of interest include:

Financing and funding: Taxation and insurance (Medicare, NDIS, aged care), public-private finance, out of pockets, provider payment models
Market organisation: competition, integration, public-private provision, regulation
Input markets: health workforce, pharmaceuticals.
Provider decision-making: practice variations, incentives, behavioural economics.

Aim and objectives

Aim To build a stronger and high quality evidence base for Australian policy decisions

Objectives

To enhance co-operation and collaboration between researchers
To build academic capacity in research by supporting PhD students, ECRs and MCRs
To promote the importance of this research with non-academics (e.g. public servants, research councils and funders, other stakeholders, then public) and within health services research