Geographical classifications to guide rural health policy in Australia

Australia and New Zealand Health Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  McGrail, Matthew R ^a,b   Humphreys, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77955734648     PISSN: 17438462     EISSN: 17438462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-6-28     Document Type: Article

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