McGrail, Matthew2018-01-152018-01-15McGrail M (2015). ‘Rurality’ and community amenity: How they relate to rural primary care supply and workforce retention. Report on 2014 APHCRI/Robert Graham Center Visiting Fellowship, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139315This project investigated how GIS and large datasets can be efficiently and effectively utilised to underpin rural PHC policies relating to workforce planning and service delivery. This research explored the wider application of McGrail’s earlier Australian Index of Access work to guide planning in areas of workforce shortage. McGrail spent time at the Robert Graham Centre in Washington DC; in Chicago with Dr Wei Luo, and at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at The University of North Carolina.The research reported in this paper is a project of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute which is supported by a grant from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development Strategy.3 vols.application/pdfen-AUAuthor/s retain copyright.2015