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Health inequalities, physician citizens and professional medical associations: an Australian case study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, August 2007
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Title
Health inequalities, physician citizens and professional medical associations: an Australian case study
Published in
BMC Medicine, August 2007
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-5-23
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Authors

John Furler, Elizabeth Harris, Mark Harris, Lucio Naccarella, Doris Young, Teri Snowdon

Abstract

As socioeconomic health inequalities persist and widen, the health effects of adversity are a constant presence in the daily work of physicians. Gruen and colleagues suggest that, in responding to important population health issues such as this, defining those areas of professional obligation in contrast to professional aspiration should be on the basis of evidence and feasibility. Drawing this line between obligation and aspiration is a part of the work of professional medical colleges and associations, and in doing so they must respond to members as well as a range of other interest groups. Our aim was to explore the usefulness of Gruen's model of physician responsibility in defining how professional medical colleges and associations should lead the profession in responding to socioeconomic health inequalities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 1 3%
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 29 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 23%
Researcher 4 13%
Student > Master 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Lecturer 2 6%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 7 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 29%
Social Sciences 8 26%
Linguistics 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 7 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 September 2021.
All research outputs
#4,640,768
of 23,702,491 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,150
of 3,585 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,895
of 68,581 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#3
of 8 outputs
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