Kamalakanthan, Abhaya; Jackson, Sukhan - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2008
Australian estimates of the doctor-to-population ratios for the cities, regional and remote areas seem to exceed the 0 ….71:1,000 benchmark ratio of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. However, statistics are misleading because they do not … qualitative study of the problem of retention and recruitment of rural doctors. In 2006-08, 13 in-depth structured interviews were …