Variation in public‐funded bariatric surgery intervention rate by New Zealand region
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Peter Sandiford; Mazin Ghafel; Grant Beban; Karen Bartholomew; Rinki Murphy; Michael Booth
- Source
- Internal Medicine Journal. 49:391-395
- Subject
- Male
education.field_of_study
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Population
Bariatric Surgery
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Health Services Accessibility
Obesity, Morbid
Surgery
Morbid obesity
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Variation (linguistics)
Intervention (counseling)
Prevalence
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Female
030212 general & internal medicine
Healthcare Disparities
education
business
New Zealand
- Language
- ISSN
- 1445-5994
1444-0903
Inequitable access to bariatric surgery by geographical region has been reported internationally, but comparable data on provision of bariatric surgery have not previously been reported in New Zealand. We examined allocated funding and provision of bariatric surgery amongst different regions in New Zealand in the 2013/14 year, and found that there was large variation in both. This highlights that public funded bariatric surgery needs to take into account population prevalence of morbid obesity to reduce inequities by geographical region.