The study commences with a question that epidemiology would regard as old' viz. whether suicide rates are higher in rural areas or urban areas, and turns to applying an economic technique of analysis to studying regional suicide disparities. Several dispersion measures are applied to time series...

The objective of this thesis is to present the results of several conceptual and empirical analyses of the services of private psychiatrists that are provided in Australia on a fee-for-service (FFS) basis. The contributions to knowledge provided by this study are outlined here. Part I of the...