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Improving health equity in Australia: practical advice for those ready to act

Jeanette Ward
Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): . || doi: 10.5694/mja15.00415
Published online: 19 October 2015

A personal checklist for the time-poor clinician

In these times of health reform mired in complexity and politics, I found myself recently wondering where physicians with a particular concern about health inequities for rural and remote Australia, especially public health physicians like me dealing daily with their distribution and determinants, might turn for guidance.


  • University of Ottawa, Ottawa


Correspondence: jward@uottawa.ca

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