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Meeting the primary healthcare needs of small rural communities: lessons for health service planners
qualifications: PhD
contribution: devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft
position: Research Fellow
Australia
Deb is a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University. She has a PhD and Masters in Clinical Epidemiology. Deb has also worked as a rural GP. Deb's main research areas of interest relate to rural and remote health workforce supply (especially retention) and rural and remote primary health care services.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft
position: Emeritus Professor
Australia
Current research interests include:
- the social and spatial patterns of need for health related services in rural areas,
- rural health workforce recruitment and retention,
- the role and contribution of services to the health and wellbeing of communities,
- the provision of appropriate education, training and support for rural health workers and implementation of innovative service delivery models in order to provide sustainable health care in small rural and remote communities,
- the evaluation of rural health care planning and policies, and
- rural community development.
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