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Podcast: Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke
Episode: Episode 95. Remote and Rural Medicine with Dr Etienne Cawood
Description: About 7 million Australians, around 28% of our population, live in rural and remote areas encompassing many diverse locations and communities that in some instances have poor access to the medical services we may take for granted in metropolitan centres. Higher rates of hospitalisations, deaths and injury are reported from remote and rural areas and statistics show that remote and very remote areas experience a greater burden of disease and injury compared to major city populations (about 1.4 times). The practice of medicine in such communities requires a higher level of medical literacy.
On average, people living in remote and...