Medicare
Australia’s universal health insurance scheme.
What is medicare?
The Australian Government scheme that subsidises the cost of many medicines.
What is the PBS?
The number of deaths in a population during a specific period.
What is mortality?
This Australian scheme provides funding and support for people with permanent and significant disabilities.
What is the NDIS?
A doctor who is often the first point of contact with the healthcare system.
What is a GP?
This Medicare feature allows Australians to receive free treatment as public patients in public hospitals.
What is public hospital treatment?
This is the maximum amount a general patient is required to pay for a PBS-listed medicine.
What is the PBS co-payment?
The number of new cases of a condition during a given period.
What is incidence?
One of the main goals of the NDIS is to increase these opportunities for people with disabilities in education, employment, and community life.
What is participation?
Physiotherapists, dietitians and occupational therapists are examples of this type of healthcare.
What is allied healthcare?
This Medicare feature can reduce out-of-pocket costs when an individual or family has high medical expenses.
What is the medicare safety net?
This list contains the medicines that are subsidised by the Australian Government through the PBS.
What is the PBS Schedule?
The total number or proportion of cases of a particular condition in a population at a given time.
What is prevalence?
The NDIS reflects this principle of social justice by ensuring people with disabilities have access to the support they need to achieve similar opportunities as others.
What is equity?
This healthcare professional specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the feet and lower limbs.
What is a podiatrist?
This occurs when a healthcare provider bills Medicare directly and the patient pays no out-of-pocket fee.
What is bulk billing?
People with certain concession cards generally pay this type of reduced PBS price for medicines.
What is the concessional co-payment?
One of the two components of a DALY that measures years of healthy life lost due to disability or illness.
What is YLD?
To be eligible for the NDIS, a person must have a permanent and significant impairment that affects their ability to do these everyday tasks.
What are daily activities?
This document from a GP allows a patient to access certain specialist services and may be required to receive a Medicare benefit.
What is a referral?
The amount the Australian Government considers appropriate to charge for a particular medical service.
What is the scheduled fee?
Once a person or family reaches this threshold, PBS medicines become cheaper or free for the remainder of the calendar year
What is the PBS Safety Net?
A measure of burden of disease equal to the sum of YLL and YLD.
What is a DALY?
A key feature of the NDIS is that participants can choose the services and supports they receive, giving them more of this over their lives.
What is choice and control?
This term describes treatments used alongside conventional medical treatment, such as acupuncture being used alongside standard medical care.
What is complementary medicine?