As well as being responsible for a large share of total costs, people who visit the GP more often are more likely to live in the most disadvantaged areas, and to report being in poor health.
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Professor of Health Economics, Queensland University of Technology
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Director of the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, University of Adelaide
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Senior Research Associate at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH), University of Adelaide
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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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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professor of General Practice and Head of Undergraduate Education, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Director, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity and Centre of Research Excellence in Obesity Management and Prevention in Primary Health Care, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Melissa Sweet is a Friend of The Conversation.
Independent journalist and health writer; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney; Founder of Croakey.org. PhD candidate, University of Canberra
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Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The Open University
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Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
