Profiles And Contributions To This Article

The Fly-in Fly-out and Drive-in Drive-out model of health care service provision for rural and remote Australia: benefits and disadvantages

Rafat  Hussain

Rafat Hussain

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts, contributed to drafts

position: Professor

Australia

My academic background spans clinical medicine, public health, & health services management. I have expertise across a range of disciplinary areas, and taught across a variety of units in public health, health management, international health, health promotion, health sciences and research methodologies - and across a range of courses and awards from Bachelors and Masters to Doctoral students. I have published extensively in high quality international journals and positively reviewed books: 6 book chapters, 64 refereed papers, 11 refereed conference proceedings and other scholarly works. I also have presented papers at over 70 research conferences. Many of my research publications are widely cited, with 1,946 citations to 102 published works in Google Scholar with an H-index of 26 and i10-index of 36 (Feb 2014).


Myfanwy  Maple

Prof Myfanwy Maple

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor

Australia

Social Work academic with research interests in suicide, suicide bereavement, trauma and loss, mental health, high risk young people.


Sally  Hunter

Sally Hunter

qualifications: PhD

contribution: literature review, contributed to drafts

position: SEN

Australia

Dr Sally Hunter is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England, Australia.


Virginia  Mapedzahama

Virginia Mapedzahama

qualifications: PhD

contribution: wrote the first draft

position: Postdoctoral researcher


Prasuna  Reddy

Prasuna Reddy

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Professor


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