‘Imagine if we had an actual service ...’: a qualitative exploration of abortion access challenges in Australian rural primary care

Introduction: Rural populations in Australia rely upon local primary health care for medication abortion access. Yet little is known about how individual primary healthcare providers themselves negotiate the unique complexities of the rural health system to provide local abortion services. Method...

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Published in:	Rural and Remote Health
Main Authors:	Anna Noonan, Erica Millar, Jane Tomnay, Georgina Luscombe, Kirsten Black
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	James Cook University 2024-11-01
Subjects:	abortion Australia health service access primary care reproductive rights.
Online Access:	https://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/9229/

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