Residents of Melbourne’s wealthy eastern and bayside suburbs are among the highest users of colonoscopies in Australia while their poorer neighbours in Frankston top the state for using mental health plans for psychological care.
A new atlas of health care has also revealed that children under the age of 17 in Sale have the highest rate of antidepressant drug use in Victoria, while people over 65 in Melbourne’s wealthy inner south-eastern suburbs are Australia’s greatest users of anti-psychotic medicines.
In a worrying discovery, there are huge variations in surgery across Australia, too, with women in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley having the highest rate of hysterectomies (removal of the uterus) – five times higher than other areas. And children under 17 in Glenelg are the most likely in Australia to have their tonsils removed. The shire, in Victoria’s south-west, has six times the rate of tonsillectomies compared to other parts of the country. For the full article click here
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