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The National Rural Health Strategy
Author(s) -
HUMPHREYS JOHN S.,
MURRAY DES
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.48
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1584
pISSN - 1038-5282
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.1994.tb00114.x
Subject(s) - commonwealth , workforce , library science , human services , citation , section (typography) , management , sociology , medicine , gerontology , political science , business , advertising , law , computer science , economics
There are many health care challenges for Canadians, but none are any greater than the challenge of providing care for those who live in remote and sparsely populated regions of this country. In 2005, 21% of the Canada’s population lives in rural communities of less than 10,000 population and only 9.4% of the physicians live and work in these communities. The rural physicians’ workforce comprised of 16% of family physicians and 2% of specialists.