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General Practice in Australia: 2004

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General Practice in Australia: 2004 contains more than 600 pages of information, debate, thoughts and research - some not available elsewhere.


This publication is distributed free to interested organisations and health professionals.
Individual chapters of General Practice in Australia: 2004 are available below for download:


Erratum (PDF 91 KB)

Forward, Acknowledgements, Contents, Tables, Figures, Introduction (PDF 1872 KB)

Chapter 1 - History, policy and context (PDF 2054 KB)

Chapter 2 - Financing general practice, health services and expenditures (PDF 3594 KB)

Chapter 3 - The supply and distribution of general practitioners (PDF 2105 KB)

Chapter 4 - General practitioner services in Australia (PDF 4779 KB)

Chapter 5 - General practice research (PDF 3409 KB)

Chapter 6 - Education and training (PDF 1066 KB)

Chapter 7 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care and general practice (PDF 2316 KB)

Chapter 8 - Aboriginal community controlled health services (PDF 1434 KB)

Chapter 9 - The industry of general practice: its infrastructure (PDF 4124 KB)

Chapter 10 - General practice in the health system (PDF 2942 KB)

Chapter 11 - Quality and outcomes (PDF 2259 KB)

Chapter 12 - Ethical and legal issues in general practice (PDF 2916 KB)

Chapter 13 - Developments in information systems (PDF 2872 KB)

Glossary and Acronyms (PDF 1342 KB)

Map Section (PDF 1979 KB)

Index (PDF 1739 KB)



A hard copy of General Practice in Australia: 2004 may be obtained by contacting: gpinoz@health.gov.au

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