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High quality health services

Delivering ‘high quality health services’ is crucial to our public and economic health. With an ageing population, an ever-increasing share of our GDP spent on service delivery, a large and diverse workforce and opportunities for innovation that could have a global impact – understanding and monitoring views on health is critical to local and national prosperity. The provision of ‘high quality health services’ is always among the top attributes that Australians believe make somewhere a good place to live, and is often more important to older Australians. Read more about .id's views on the importance of 'high quality health services' here.

High quality health services in Australia

Greater Importance & Better Experiences

45% of residents selected ‘High quality health services’ as an important attribute when considering what makes somewhere a good place to live, making it the 4th most important liveability aspect for Australia residents overall. Residents rated their experience of ‘High quality health services’ in their local area 6.5 out of 10, on average, making it the 7th most positively experienced attribute of 16. In comparison to May 2023, residents of Australia reported better local area experiences for High quality health services.

Benchmarks

Importance
Experience
Australia
45%
6.5
May 2023
45%
6.2
Metropolitan Australia: 2024
42%
6.9
Regional Australia: 2024
50%
5.6

Local areas

Importance
Experience
Australia
45%
6.5
South East Queensland (n = 487)
38%
7.0
Melbourne (n = 367)
37%
7.1
Sydney (n = 377)
48%
7.3
Adelaide (n = 207)
47%
6.9
Darwin (n = 229)
55%
5.2
Hobart (n = 232)
45%
4.9
Perth (n = 327)
39%
7.0
The ACT (n = 302)
48%
6.2
Western VIC (n = 178)
53%
6.2
Northern NSW (n = 169)
49%
5.6
Eastern VIC (n = 286)
43%
5.3
Southern NSW (n = 214)
56%
5.0
Central NSW (n = 284)
51%
5.8
Central VIC (n = 185)
55%
7.1
Central QLD (n = 166)
51%
4.8
Regional SA (n = 113)
58%
5.1
Rest of QLD (n = 31)
49%
5.6
Regional Tas (n = 263)
47%
4.8
Regional WA (n = 317)
45%
5.3
Far North Queensland (n = 208)
54%
5.6
Regional NT (n = 122)
49%
5.2

Gender

Importance
Experience
Australia
45%
6.5
Male (n = 1954)
43%
6.7
Female (n = 2943)
47%
6.4
Other (n = 64)
44%
5.5

Age

Importance
Experience
Australia
45%
6.5
18 - 34 (n = 1035)
32%
6.4
35 - 59 (n = 1810)
45%
6.4
60 + (n = 1992)
57%
6.9

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