Patient experiences in Australia: Summary of findings, 2016–17. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/by%20Subject/4839.0~2016–17~Main%20Features~General%20practitioners~2 [10 Sept 2018].
Patient experiences in Australia: Summary of findings, 2017–18 http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/4839.0 [20 November 2018].
Local government areas and statistical local areas. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/1216.0Jul%202009?OpenDocument [October 2015].
Statistical local area 2011 to remoteness area 2011 http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/1270.0.55.006July%202011?OpenDocument [1 March 2016].
2011 lga from 2011 sla correspondence, australian standard geographical classification (asgc) correspondences. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/1216.0.15.002July%202011?OpenDocument [1 March 2016].
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC). Medical practice variation: Background paper. Sydney: ACSQHC, 2013.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia’s health 2016. Australia’s health series no. 15. Cat. no. AUS 199. Canberra: AIHW, 2016.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Health in rural and remote Australia. AIHW Cat. No. PHE 6. Canberra, 1998.
Bech M, Lauridsen J. 2009. Exploring spatial patterns in general practice expenditure. The European Journal of Health Economics 10: 243–254.
Bernal-Delgado E, García-Armesto S, Peiró S. 2014. Atlas of variations in medical practice in spain: The spanish national health service under scrutiny. Health Policy 114: 15–30.
Busato A, Künzi B. 2008. Primary care physician supply and other key determinants of health care utilisation: The case of switzerland. BMC Health Services Research 8: 8.
Bywood PT, Katterl R, Lunnay BK. 2011. Disparities in primary health care utilisation: Who are the disadvantaged groups? How are they disadvantaged? What interventions work? Primary Health Care Research & Information Service.
Camenzind PA. 2012. Explaining regional variations in health care utilization between swiss cantons using panel econometric models. BMC Health Services Research 12: 62.
de Vries EF, Heijink R, Struijs JN, Baan CA. 2018. Unraveling the drivers of regional variation in healthcare spending by analyzing prevalent chronic diseases. BMC Health Services Research 18: 323.
Department of Health. 2013. Australian standard geographical classification - remoteness area (asgc-ra).
Eibich P, Ziebarth NR. 2014. Analyzing regional variation in health care utilization using (rich) household microdata. Health Policy 114: 41–53.
Finkelstein A, Gentzkow M, Williams H. 2016. Sources of geographic variation in health care: Evidence from patient migration. The quarterly journal of economics 131: 1681–1726.
Göpffarth D, Kopetsch T, Schmitz H. 2016. Determinants of regional variation in health expenditures in germany. Health Economics 25: 801–815.
Gusmano MK, Weisz D, Rodwin VG, Lang J, Qian M, Bocquier A, et al. 2014. Disparities in access to health care in three french regions. Health Policy 114: 31–40.
Health workforce data. http://www.hwa.gov.au/resources/health-workforce-data [10 February 2016].
Leporatti L, Ameri M, Trinchero C, Orcamo P, Montefiori M. 2016. Targeting frequent users of emergency departments: Prominent risk factors and policy implications. Health Policy 120: 462–470.
Lowe RA, Localio AR, Schwarz DF, Williams S, Tuton LW, Maroney S, et al. 2005. Association between primary care practice characteristics and emergency department use in a medicaid managed care organization. Medical Care 43: 792–800.
Healthy communities: Australians’ experience with primary health care in 2010–11. http://www.nhpa.gov.au/internet/nhpa/publishing.nsf/Content/Healthy-Communities-Australians-experiences-with-primary-health-care–2010–11 [1 January 2016].
Social health atlas of Australia: Data by statistical local area. http://www.publichealth.gov.au/phidu/maps-data/data/ [3 March 2016].
Rosenberg BL, Kellar JA, Labno A, Matheson DHM, Ringel M, VonAchen P, et al. 2016. Quantifying geographic variation in health care outcomes in the united states before and after risk-adjustment. PloS One 11: e0166762.
Skinner J. 2011. Causes and consequences of regional variations in health care. In Handbook of health economics. Elsevier.
Sundmacher L, Busse R. 2014. Geographic variation in health care—a special issue on the 40th anniversary of “small area variation in health care delivery”. Health Policy 114: 3–4.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Geographic variations in health care. OECD Health Policy Studies, 2014.
Turrell G, Oldenburg BF, Harris E, Jolley D. 2004. Social inequality: Utilisation of general practitioner services by socio-economic disadvantage and geographic remoteness. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 28: 152–158.
Zuckerman S, Waidmann T, Berenson R, Hadley J. 2010. Clarifying sources of geographic differences in Medicare spending. The New England journal of medicine 363: 54–62.