Primary Aim:
To develop patient catchment areas and models based on these areas for prioritising
resource allocation that could inform for example Medicare Locals and other service
delivery organisations how to best target their services based on population need
Objectives:
• To examine the geography of care-seeking behaviour, through developing patient
catchment areas
• To measure the variation in health care need, utilisation and costs across these
catchment areas
• To combine measures and geographies to develop models for prioritising resource
allocation