Population Ageing, Health Status and Health Outlays: Assessing Impacts and Policy Options During the Next 40 Years

This project will enable the Commonwealth and Australia to develop the modelling infrastructure that will allow them to assess the future distributional consequences of the far reaching human capital and health reforms that are likely to be on the policy agenda during the next few decades. The project will also place Australia at the forefront internationally in the construction of dynamic microsimulation population models, particularly including the simulation of health status and health services. This technology will improve public policy in Australia and be able to be exported to our Asia Pacific neighbours in the near future.