Publications

• Law, H, Marasinghe, D, Butler, D et al. 2023, 'Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs under Australia�s universal health care system: A national linked data study', Health Policy, vol. 127, pp. 44-50.
• Butler, D, Joshy, G, Douglas, K et al. 2023, 'Changes in general practice use and costs with COVID-19 and telehealth initiatives: analysis of Australian whole-population linked data', British Journal of General Practice, vol. 73, no. 730, pp. e364-e373.
• Butler, D, Agostino, J, Paige, E et al. 2022, 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health checks: sociodemographic characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors', Public Health Research & Practice, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-9.
• Butler, D, Paige, E, Welsh, J et al. 2022, 'Factors related to under-treatment of secondary cardiovascular risk, including primary healthcare: Australian National Health Survey linked data analysis', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 533-539.
• Wang, S, Parkinson, A, Butler, D et al. 2022, 'Real price of health-experiences of out-of-pocket costs in Australia: protocol for a systematic review', BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. e065932.
• Butler, D, Jorm, L, Larkins, S et al. 2021, 'Examining area-level variation in service organisation and delivery across the breadth of primary healthcare. Usefulness of measures constructed from routine data', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 16, no. 12 December, pp. 1-15.
• Welsh, J, Joshy, G, Moran, L et al. 2021, 'Education-related inequalities in cause-specific mortality: first estimates for Australia using individual-level linked census and mortality data', International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 1981-1994.
• Welsh, J, Bishop, K, Booth, H, Butler, D, Gourley, M, Law, HD, Banks, E, Canudas-Romo, V & Korda, RJ. 2021, 'Inequalities in life expectancy in Australia according to education level: a whole-of-population record linkage study', International Journal for Equity in Health 20(1):178 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01513-3.
• Law, H, Biddle, N, Lancsar, E et al. 2020, 'Using Newly Linked Data to Assess Equity of Out-Of-Pocket Healthcare Costs in Australia', International Population Data Linkage Conference 2020 - Data Linkage: Information to Impact, ed. Kerina Jones, Swansea University, UK, United Kingdom.
• Mazumdar, S, Butler, D, Bagheri, N et al 2016, 'How useful are Primary Care Service Areas? Evaluating PCSAs as a tool for measuring Primary Care Practitioner access', Applied Geography, vol. 72, no. -, pp. 47-54pp.
• Bagheri, N, McRae, I, Konings, P et al 2014, 'Undiagnosed diabetes from cross-sectional GP practice data: An approach to identify communities with high likelihood of undiagnosed diabetes', BMJ Open, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. e005305-e005305.
• Butler, D, Petterson, S, Phillips, R et al 2013, 'Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery', Health Services Research, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 539-559.
• Butler, D, Thurecht, L, Brown, L et al 2013, 'Social exclusion, deprivation and child health: a spatial analysis of ambulatory care sensitive conditions in children aged 0-4 years in Victoria, Australia', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 94, pp. 9-16.
• Mazumdar, S, Konings, P, Butler, D et al 2013, 'General practitioner (family physician) workforce in Australia: comparing geographic data from surveys, a mailing list and medicare', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 15.
• Naccarella, L, Brooks, P, Newton, B et al 2011, 'Editorial: Evidence-based primary health care workforce reforms: priority areas for research', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 194, no. 3, pp. 109-110.
• Butler, D, Petterson, S, Bazemore, A et al. 2010, 'Use of measures of socioeconomic deprivation in planning primary health care workforce and defining health care need in Australia', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 199-204.
• Douglas, K, Butler, D, Humphreys, J et al 2010, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute Submission in Response to the Medicare Locals Discussion paper on Governance and Functions.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• Developing evidence-informed education modules to support safe and high-quality telehealth consultations in general practice (Secondary Investigator)
• Optimising primary health care in Australia: multi-method whole-of-population investigation of the impact of telehealth on uptake and quality of care (Secondary Investigator)
• The effect of COVID-19 and the introduction of temporary telehealth items on use and costs of GP services: a whole-of-population linked data study (Primary Investigator)
• Transforming access, relational care, and primary health care in an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population through patient-centred medical homes: a prospective observational cohort study using mixed methods. (Secondary Investigator)
• A geographic approach to understanding patterns of health care access and social deprivation for use in primary health care policy (Primary Investigator)