Spain
Rafael Gracia Ballarín is a 46 year-old family doctor. He was born and studied Medicine in Zaragoza (Spain) a city with 650,000 inhabitants. After several destinations, he obtained a job for the Health National System in Amurrio, The Basque Country, Spain, where he has worked since 1991. Amurrio is a rural town with 10,000 inhabitants. It has several hundreds of years of history. It still maintains the characteristics of rural way of life but, because of all the means of the communications and transport around here, it enjoys some of the advantages of the city. He works in the place where he lives with his wife and his teenage son and daughter.
Personal View 23 December 2005
COVID-19 in endangered Indigenous groups from the Amazonia, Ecuador
article
Experiences of rural Australian men with online SMART Recovery mutual-help groups
article
Attraction and retention of nurses in rural, remote and isolated locations
article
Obstetric outcomes across US urban and rural hospitals
article
11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
web link
Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
web link
4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
web link