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John Stirling Humphreys

Researcher at Monash University

Publications -  199
Citations -  8714

John Stirling Humphreys is an academic researcher from Monash University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rural health & Health care. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 193 publications receiving 7681 citations. Previous affiliations of John Stirling Humphreys include Monash University, Clayton campus & University of New England (United States).

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Addressing the health disadvantage of rural populations: How does epidemiological evidence inform rural health policies and research?

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature review of rural-urban health status differentials within Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, the UK, and a variety of other western European nations was undertaken to understand the differences in life expectancy and cause-specific morbidity and mortality.
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Measuring spatial accessibility to primary care in rural areas: Improving the effectiveness of the two-step floating catchment area method

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method, a recent solution for measuring primary care service accessibility across rural areas of Victoria, Australia.
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Systematic review of effective retention incentives for health workers in rural and remote areas: Towards evidence-based policy

TL;DR: A comprehensive rural and remote health workforce retention framework to address factors known to contribute to avoidable turnover is proposed and should be rigorously evaluated using appropriate pre- and post-intervention comparisons.
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Farming and mental health problems and mental illness.

TL;DR: Conclusive data do not exist to indicate whether farmers and farming families experience higher rates of mental health problems compared with the non-farming community, but it is clear that farming is associated with a unique set of characteristics that is potentially hazardous to mental health.
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Mutations in the cinnamate 4-hydroxylase gene impact metabolism, growth and development in Arabidopsis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterized an allelic series of Arabidopsis reduced epidermal fluorescence 3 (ref3) mutants, each of which harbor mis-sense mutations in C4H (At2g30490).