If you live far from a city, you are likely to be in poorer health than your urban counterparts; you’re also less likely to use health-care services and if you do, you’ll have to wait longer for care…
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Data released recently by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show the number of dentists has increased by 24% in the five years to 2011. There are now around 12,700 dentists in Australia, with…
They toiled and they fought through the shame of it - Through wilderness, flood, and drought… …The miseries suffered, unvoiced, unknown - And that’s how the land was won. Henry Lawson’s characterisations…
The recent report of the Senate Inquiry into rural health services gave tantalising glimpses of how the future of rural health services should be. But its central theme is not new. The persistent and consistent…
Can the mining boom be blamed for the rising rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in some states? The Australian Medical Association thinks so, with its Queensland president Dr Richard Kidd…
A sharp decline in the overall suicide rate among young Australian men has masked a rise in remote areas and low socioeconomic groups, according to a series of papers examining global trends in suicide…
Mental health problems cause profound suffering and are worthy of attention for that reason alone. But despite policy and service reform, such problems remain as common, expensive and disabling as they…
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is urging the government to consider the establishment of new medical schools in rural and regional areas to boost the number of doctors in the countryside. The…
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health and Professor of Rural Health Research, University of Newcastle
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Professor, Chair of Population Oral Health + Head of School, Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne
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Founder of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance & Emeritus Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Economics, Monash University
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Professor and Dean La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Head, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
