Peter Lloyd
University of Sydney
5 Papers
104 Citations
Peter Lloyd is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Public health. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
Caveat emptor or blissful ignorance? Patients and the consumerist ethos
TL;DR: It is concluded that the patients surveyed tended not to think of themselves as consumers who should be wary of the quality of service offered by doctors, rather they preferred to trust their doctor, and therefore did not devote effort to actively seeking out information about their doctor or evaluating his or her services.
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Choosing alternative therapy: an exploratory study of sociodemographic characteristics and motives of patients resident in Sydney
TL;DR: Far from being representative of the Australian community, the majority of the sample population came from a very select group, with a narrow range of socioeconomic backgrounds, and the health risk behaviour of those surveyed was significantly different from that exhibited by the population in general.
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Consumerism in the health care setting: an exploratory study of factors underlying the selection and evaluation of primary medical services.
TL;DR: To test the validity of this perception and to explore the level of consumerism which exists in the Australian health care setting, a cross-sectional survey of general practitioner attenders in the outer western and northern suburbs of Sydney found the population was strongly attracted to the traditional model of medical care.
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Primary Health Care Consumerism amongst Elderly Australians
TL;DR: The aim of the survey was to assess the extent to which patients critically select and evaluate their general practitioner, as a good consumer may be expected to do, and demonstrate a lack of consumer-oriented behaviour both in general and amongst older respondents in particular.
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