Area remoteness and the distribution and attrition of the rural health workforce in Australia

Our results provide new insight into variation in HW availability, and trends in availability, between major health professional groupings between States, degrees of rurality and local government areas across Australia. This presents new opportunities for understanding and addressing factors that underly the variation in trends for the purpose of refining policy and programs that aim to address the persistent maldistribution and shortages in health worker availability between major cities and regional and remote parts of Australia.