Profiles And Contributions To This Article

More is more in remote Central Australia: more provision of primary healthcare services is associated with more acute medical evacuations and more remote telephone consultations

Joy Juhaina  Hussain

Dr Joy Juhaina Hussain ORCID logo

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Senior rural medical practitioner

Australia

Australian/American GP/Researcher interested in thermotherapies, sweat metabolomics, complementary medicine, lifestyle/wellness medicine, and environmental health issues of urban, rural and remote residents worldwide.


Anske  Robinson

Anske Robinson

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, contributed to drafts

position: Lecturer

Projects are: Rural Health Research Register, LISARRH (Literature Information Service for Australian Rural and Remote Health), Health and Information Technology.


Margaret  Stebbing

Margaret Stebbing

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Senior lecturer

Australia

Dr Margaret Stebbing is the Adjunct Lecturer C for Population Health in the Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health, in the School of Rural Health in Moe. Margaret's professional background is in nursing, public health practice and both clinical and social epidemiology. She has worked in rural and remote health projects in Victoria, the NT of Australia, Nepal and China. Recently completed research projects include a study at the household level of perceived health impacts of long term water insecurity in small rural towns in Victoria, and a research and action project to develop a workforce model to support retention of allied health professionals at retirement age in rural Victoria. Margaret teaches a Masters unit in Health, ecology and environmental change.


Matthew R McGrail

Assoc Prof Matthew McGrail ORCID logo

qualifications: PhD

contribution: statistical analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Senior research fellow


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