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Rural outreach by specialist doctors in Australia: a national cross-sectional study of supply and distribution

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, September 2014
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Title
Rural outreach by specialist doctors in Australia: a national cross-sectional study of supply and distribution
Published in
Human Resources for Health, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/1478-4491-12-50
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Authors

Belinda G O’Sullivan, Catherine M Joyce, Matthew R McGrail

Abstract

Outreach has been endorsed as an important global strategy to promote universal access to health care but it depends on health workers who are willing to travel. In Australia, rural outreach is commonly provided by specialist doctors who periodically visit the same community over time. However information about the level of participation and the distribution of these services nationally is limited. This paper outlines the proportion of Australian specialist doctors who participate in rural outreach, describes their characteristics and assesses how these characteristics influence remote outreach provision.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 63 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 14%
Other 9 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 10%
Student > Postgraduate 6 10%
Student > Master 6 10%
Other 11 17%
Unknown 16 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 35%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 6%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 20 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 December 2014.
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#14,915,476
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#979
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#121,268
of 249,403 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#19
of 24 outputs
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