Rural hospital focus: no transport, no primary health care.

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:Rural and Remote Health is committed to the task of providing a freely accessible, international, peer-reviewed evidence base for rural and remote health practice. Inherent in this aim is a recognition of the universal nature of rural health issues that transcends local culture and regional interests. While RRH is already publishing such peer-reviewed material, the Editorial Board believes many articles of potential worth are largely inaccessible due to their primary publication in small-circulation, paper-based journals whose readership is geographically limited. In order to generate and make available a comprehensive, international evidence base, the RRH Editorial Board has decided to republish, with permission, selected articles from such journals. This will also give worthwhile small-circulation articles the wide audience only a web-based journal can offer. The RRH RRH editorial team encourages journal users to nominate similar, suitable articles from their own world region. This article 'Rural hospital focus: No transport, no primary health care', is second in our series. It first appeared in South African Family Practice 2000; 22 (6), and is reproduced here in its original form, with kind permission of both publisher and author, prominent South African rural doctor, Professor Ian Couper. 'Rural hospital focus' was the title of the SAFP column which presented this article.

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Rural Remote Health

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Rural and remote health

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2003-01-01 00:00:00

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