General practitioner (family physician) workforce in Australia: Comparing geographic data from surveys, a mailing list and medicare

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mazumdar, Soumya ^a   Konings, Paul ^a   Butler, Danielle ^a   McRae, Ian Stewart ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data quality; Family physician; General practitioner (GP); Geographical information systems (GIS); Mailing lists; Primary health care; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POSTAL MAIL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

AUSTRALIA; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POSTAL SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84883289647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-343     Document Type: Article

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