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Journal of Primary Health Care Journal of Primary Health Care Society
Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

From the editors: challenges and opportunities for sustainable and equitable primary care

Felicity Goodyear-Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-9401 1 * , Tim Stokes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1127-1952 2
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1 Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

2 Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: f.goodyear-smith@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 14(4) 291-292 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22151
Published: 20 December 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)


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