Primary health care reform: equity is the key

• 1 Discipline of General Practice, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
• 2 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Melbourne, VIC.
• 3 Institute of Postgraduate Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK.

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