We all benefit from caring about rural health
Susan Dovey
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Correspondence to: Professor Susan Dovey, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand. Email: susan.dovey@otago.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 8(3) 185-186 https://doi.org/10.1071/HCv8n3_ED1
Published: 27 September 2016
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2016.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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