Bringing primary health and community care in from the cold in the New Zealand health reforms? Tracing reform recommendations to budgets and structures
Don Matheson 1 , Johanna Reidy
2 * , Rawiri Keenan 3 4
1 Department of Medicine, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, Qld 4222, Australia.
2 Department of Public Health, Otago University, 23 Mein Street, Newtown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand.
3 Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
4 Medical Research Centre, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand.
Journal of Primary Health Care 14(3) 194-196 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22077
Published: 28 July 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
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