Remoteness and socioeconomic status reduce access to specialist mental health care across Australia.

Andrew James Amos Mathew ColemanBreeanna Spring WalshFergus William Gardiner

Published in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2022)

Rural Australians face high mental illness burden, socioeconomic disadvantage and limited service provision. Overcoming the additional disadvantages of reduced likelihood of admission to and reduced time in hospital with increasing distance from hospital will require increased outreach proportional to remoteness.

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