Primary care access for mental illness in Australia: Patterns of access to general practice from 2006 to 2016.

ABSTRACT: General practice has an important role within the Australian healthcare system to provide access to care and effective management of chronic health conditions. However, people with serious mental illness experience challenges associated with service access. The current paper seeks to examine drivers of access to general practice for people with common and serious mental disorders, compared with people who access care for type II diabetes, a common physical health problem managed in general practice. The Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) programme provides the most comprehensive and objective measurement of general practitioner activity in Australia. Using BEACH data, this study compared general practice encounters for depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia,

SUBMITTER: Farrer LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5983527 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature