Rural health in Aotearoa New Zealand: current state and future challenges

Tim Stokes; Felicity Goodyear-Smith

doi:10.1071/HC24136

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Rural health in Aotearoa New Zealand: current state and future challenges

Tim Stokes

¹ ^* , Felicity Goodyear-Smith

²

+ Author Affiliations

- Author Affiliations

¹ Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

² Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

^* Correspondence to: tim.stokes@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 16(3) 225-227 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24136

Submitted: 2 September 2024 Accepted: 4 September 2024 Published: 25 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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