Taken out of context: academic rural health in Aotearoa New Zealand

Garry Nixon

doi:10.1071/HC24133

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Taken out of context: academic rural health in Aotearoa New Zealand

Garry Nixon

¹ ² ^*

+ Author Affiliations

- Author Affiliations

¹ Centre for Rural Health, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.

² Dunstan Hospital, Hospital Street, Clyde, New Zealand.

^* Correspondence to: garry.nixon@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 16(3) 228-229 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24133

Submitted: 2 September 2024 Accepted: 4 September 2024 Published: 23 September 2024

© 2024 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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