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The price of health care for Medicare-ineligible asylum seekers in the community

Katina Kardamanidis and Bruce Armstrong
Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00160.x
Published online: 6 February 2006

Katina Kardamanidis,* Bruce Armstrong


  • 1 Injury Prevention and Trauma Care, The George Institute for International Health, PO Box M201, Camperdown, NSW 2050
  • 2 School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW. kkardATdoh.health.nsw.gov.au


Correspondence: kkard@doh.health.nsw.gov.au

Acknowledgements: 

Thanks to Dr Glenn Salkeld, Associate Professor of Health Economics, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, for his help with calculating health care costs, and Dr Mitchell Smith and the nursing staff of the NSW Refugee Health Service for data collection and other information.

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  • 3. Sinnerbrink I, Silove D, Manicavasagar V, et al. Asylum seekers: general health status and problems with access to health care. Med J Aust 1996; 165: 634-637.
  • 4. Telfer B. Hostility and hospitality: a qualitative analysis of three, key perspectives on barriers to and opportunities for community based asylum seekers accessing health services in Australia, 2001-2003 [MPH treatise]. Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2003.
  • 5. Kardamanidis K. Tangible and intangible costs of the “No work – no Medicare” policy for community based asylum seekers in New South Wales, Australia [MPH thesis]. Sydney: University of Sydney, 2004.
  • 6. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Interactive expenditure data. Select State health expenditures, current and constant prices, 1996-97 to 2002-03. Available at: http://www.aihw.gov.au/expenditure/datacubes/index.cfm (accessed Dec 2005).

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