Instead of asking how to fix the rural GP shortage, we should look at the bigger picture and ask how nurse practitioners could work to their full capacity.
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Despite chronic housing need and persistent health and infrastructural inequities, northern communities are turning to the land and each other to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Americans who live in rural parts of the country have fewer doctors, specialists and hospitals than those who live in cities. It also appears that insurers are working against them.
Rural hospital closings have accelerated in recent years, leaving not only sick people but ghost towns in their wake. Does the failure to fix it speak to the ills of the larger health care system?
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Professor and Dean La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing, and Professor of Health Policy + Management, Deputy Director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center; Associate dean of research, College of Nursing, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor, Executive Director, Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Initiative, Texas A&M University
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Research Fellow, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Professor, Principal Research Fellow at the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Clinical assistant professor, pharmacy, Texas A&M University
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Associate professor, Queen's University, Ontario