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Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
EDITORIAL

Failing to thrive: academic rural health in New Zealand

Garry Nixon 1 , Ross Lawrenson 2
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1 Rural Generalist Dunstan Hospital Clyde, and Section of Rural Health, Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, New Zealand

2 University of Waikato, and Waikato DHB, Waikato, New Zealand

3 Corresponding author. Email: garry.nixon@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 11(1) 4-5 https://doi.org/10.1071/HCv11n1_ED2
Published: 3 April 2019

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2019.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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