Background Residents of remote communities in Australia and other geographically large
countries have comparatively poorer access to high-quality primary health care. To inform …

Background One third of all Australians live outside of its major cities. Access to health
services and health outcomes are generally poorer in rural and remote areas relative to …

Access is defined as the degree of fit between the user and the service; the better the fit, the
better the access. Using the theory developed by Penchansky and Thomas, access is …

People living in rural places face unique challenges due to their geographic isolation and
often experience poorer health outcomes compared to people living in major cities. The …

Doctors are distributed unequally across different regions in virtually all OECD countries,
and this causes concern about how to continue to ensure access to health services …

Selection and recruitment into healthcare education and practice is a key area of interest for
educators with significant developments in research, policy, and practice in recent years …

O artigo analisa singularidades da organização Atenção Primária à Saúde (APS) em
municípios rurais remotos (MRR) da Amazônia sob influência dos rios e discute desafios …

The field of rural health in Australia, and elsewhere, is known for its problems-the difficulties
of providing accessible health services, recruiting staff and providing quality healthcare. This …

For decades, the Australian Government has been wrestling with how to “fix the rural health
problem”. Long-standing problems of workforce shortages and maldistribution, difficulties …

In recent years the migration of skilled health workers has grown dramatically. At the same
time there has been growing demand for evidence-based health policy; hence this book …