Solving Australia's rural medical workforce shortage
A longstanding but complex health policy issue has been to ensure people in rural Australia have good access to medical care. In the context of a reported national oversupply of doctors, policies to redistribute doctors to areas of undersupply are of particular relevance. This policy brief summarises key evidence from the [Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life] MABEL survey in relation to supporting the rural medical workforce. [This] evidence shows that a range of factors throughout the medical training pipeline and the course of doctors' work influences the supply of doctors i... Show more
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Published: Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, 2017
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: [4] p.
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http://mabel.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/2294578/MABEL-policy-brief-no-3.pdf
