Equity in primary health care provision: more than 50 years of the inverse care law
Ben Harris-Roxas
A and Elizabeth Sturgiss B A *
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A School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
B School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University, Frankston, Vic., Australia.
* Correspondence to: liz.sturgiss@monash.edu
Australian Journal of Primary Health 29(2) i-ii https://doi.org/10.1071/PY23062
Published: 20 April 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of La Trobe University
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