AMA VICDOC Autumn 2024 - Magazine - Page 22
ENVIRONMENT:
THE URBAN
+ RURAL
HEALTH
DISPARITY
—
Growing up in regional
Queensland, I always felt like an
outsider. At the time, it was hard
to see why. It is only now, as
a student in the city studying
public health, do I understand
why: narratives often revolve
around those holding power.
OPINION EELEEN TEY
Urban
Australia
has forgotten that
it created the rural
health disparity — and
both rural and urban
Australia will
suffer for it
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AMA VI C TO RIA
It is clear rural healthcare
must be improved – not
only because health is a
fundamental human right,
but because worsening
rural health standards will
worsen urban health too
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