Lixin Ou|Jack Chen|Pamela Garrett|Ken Hillman
Ethnic and Indigenous access to early childhood healthcare services in Australia: parents’ perceived unmet needs and related barriers
UNSW Sydney|UNSW Sydney|Sydney South West Area Health Service|UNSW Sydney
evaluate parents perceived unmet needs early childhood healthcare services among indigenous nonenglishspeaking background nesb englishspeaking background esb children related barriers data longitudinal study australian children lsac raoscott chisquare used examine level parents perceived unmet needs three ethnic groups early childhood healthcare services 12 month period survey logistic regression used assess association groups infants barriers utilisation ten per cent australian infants least one parents perceived unmet need early childhood healthcare services nesb 153 indigenous 151 infants likely esb infants 99 p0001 parents perceived unmet needs health care services barriers service access include cost transport problems child care difficulties service availability family reasons parents esb infants likely cite operating hours major barrier accessing services parents perceived unmet needs number health services australian infants different levels indigenous nesb esb groups common barrier services utilisation related cost private health insurance availability accessibility service provision socioeconomic issues policy attention operational changes required improve equity accessing early childhood services well improve overall access healthcare services australian infants