Measuring the metropolitan-rural inequity is a report recently published by the National Rural Health Alliance. Given the recent exposure this inequality has received due to the complications of our recent Federal election, this is most timely. It details some of the rural-metropolitan inequities the Alliance sees as justifying special regional investments by the new Gillard Government, such as differences in life expectancy, access to health professionals, health status and risk factors, cancer survival rates, education and educational outcomes, and communications.
The NRHA's website is also a good place to look for all things related to rural health. They publish the Australian Journal of Rural Health, have useful factsheets and other publications, media releases, conference listings, links to databases and other sites, and all the latest news.
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