16 May 2012
"Twenty steps to equal health by 2020" moves chronologically through measures to support the lifetime path of an individual working in the rural and remote health sector. Inspired by the Senate Inquiry into factors affecting the supply of health services in rural areas, it moves from measures for getting more rural students into health professions and more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into the health workforce through recruitment and retention to policy levers and national data analyses by remoteness to improve rural health and workforce.