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Dental care is the most-used private health insurance ancillary service. Peter Kyikos/AAP

March 29, 2015

Explainer: why do Australians have private health insurance?

Sophie Lewis, UNSW ; Karen Willis, La Trobe University, and Marika Franklin, Australian Catholic University

All Australian residents have access to Medicare, so why do half the population also decide to take out private health insurance?

Health consumers don’t necessarily use the internet to bypass their GP, they use it as an additional source of information. Flickr/Chelsea Louise

February 12, 2014

Don’t panic! Healthy consumers look online for medical advice

Sophie Lewis, University of Sydney; Karen Willis, University of Sydney, and Marika Franklin, University of Sydney

We’ve all heard the warnings against googling your symptoms in search of a diagnosis: you’ll uncover a range of daunting illnesses and launch into panic-mode over something like a measly cold. There is…

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