Acta Med. 2021, 64: 15-21

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2021.3

Urban or Rural GP? In the Czech Republic It Is not just Distances That Matter

Jan Bělobrádeka,bID, Luděk ŠídlocID, Kateřina Javorskáa,b, David Halatab

aDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové and University Hospital Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
bWorking Group on Rural Practise of the Czech GP Society, Czech Republic
cDepartment of Demography and Geodemography, Charles University, Faculty of Science, Prague, Czech Republic

Received August 9, 2020
Accepted December 4, 2020

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