THE National Rural Health Alliance is concerned about new rural and remote health data just released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), which showed potentially avoidable deaths and hospitalisations were two to three times higher in remote and very remote areas, compared with major cities in Australia.
In addition, the number of non-hospital, non-referred attendances per person were lowest in remote and very remote communities.
"The Alliance urgently calls for increased investment in rural healthcare, given the appalling health spending deficit in rural Australia which has compounded the health problems faced by our rural communities," said the Alliance Chief Executive Susi Tegen (pictured).
The numbers released today by AIHW confirm that rural areas also continue to have low levels of health workforce and higher rates of burden of disease and preventable death.
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