Rural–urban disparities in health: How does Canada fare and how does Canada compare with Australia?

RW Pong, M DesMeules… - Australian journal of rural …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To analyse rural–urban and intra‐rural disparities in health status in Canada and
to compare Canada with Australia with respect to such disparities. Design: Four indicators …

Factors influencing family physicians to enter rural practice: does rural or urban background make a difference?

BTB Chan, N Degani, T Crichton, RW Pong… - Canadian Family …, 2005 - cfp.ca
OBJECTIVE To examine where rural physicians grew up, when during their training they
became interested in rural medicine, factors influencing their decision to practise rural medicine…

Determinants of health care demand in poor, rural China: the case of Gansu Province

D Qian, RW Pong, A Yin, KV Nagarajan… - Health Policy and …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines the determinants that influence health care demand decisions in rural
areas of Gansu province, China. This represents the first effort to identify and quantify the …

Patterns of health services utilization in rural Canada.

RW Pong, M DesMeules, D Heng… - Chronic diseases and …, 2011 - europepmc.org
CONTEXT OF THIS STUDY: Canadians value ease of access to their health services.
Although many studies have focused on accessibility to health services in Canada, few have …

Milestones on the social accountability journey: family medicine practice locations of Northern Ontario School of Medicine graduates

…, PE Timony, MG French, R Strasser, RW Pong… - Canadian Family …, 2016 - cfp.ca
Objective To assess the effect of different levels of exposure to the Northern Ontario School
of Medicine’s (NOSM’s) distributed medical education programs in northern Ontario on FPs’ …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to overcome physician shortages in northern Ontario: a study of policy implementation over 35 years

RW Pong - Human resources for health, 2008 - Springer
Background Shortages and maldistibution of physicians in northern Ontario, Canada, have
been a long-standing issue. This study seeks to document, in a chronological manner, the …

Don't take" geography" for granted! Some methodological issues in measuring geographic distribution of physicians

RW Pong, JR Pitblado - Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, 2001 - search.proquest.com
Other geopolitical or administrative areas may not reflect the planning, distribution or
organization of health services. Even" health regions" may not be an appropriate unit of analysis. …

[BOOK][B] A review and synthesis of strategies and policy recommendations on the rural health workforce

RW Pong - 2003 - policycommons.net
The objective of the entire project is to gain a deeper understanding of rural health human
resources issues, develop a set of strategies to strengthen the health workforce in rural Ontario…

[HTML][HTML] Different models of hospital–community health centre collaboration in selected cities in China: a cross-sectional comparative study

J Xu, R Pan, RW Pong, Y Miao… - International journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: In recent years, in order to provide patients with seamless and integrated healthcare
services, some models of collaboration between public hospitals and community health …

[HTML][HTML] Breaks in continuity of care and the rural senior transferred for medical care under regionalisation

…, D Morgan, HB Biem, RW Pong - … Journal of Integrated …, 2003 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Continuity of care, defined as the patient experiencing coherent care over time and place, is
challenged when a rural senior with multiple medical problems is transferred to a regional …