Expanding the Indigenous health workforce offers the federal government key policy wins

Making necessary investments is a winning formula that will not only reduce critical health staffing shortages, but also advance broader Indigenous policy objectives.
Research shows that applying urban-based approaches to solve rural and remote workforce shortages do not work, write Ivy Bourgeault and Kienan Williams.

A severe shortage of health-care workers is affecting the whole country, but rural and remote regions, including Indigenous communities, bear the greatest burden with a

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