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John Stirling Humphreys

John Stirling Humphreys

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
62
Citations
12295
World Ranking
1291
National Ranking
95

Overview

John Stirling Humphreys is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Health Professions. Their research covers several subfields, including Emergency Medical Services, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Economics and Econometrics, and Molecular Biology.

Humphreys' work frequently addresses topics related to the Global Health Workforce Issues, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Healthcare Policy and Management, Global Health and Surgery, Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, as well as Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Recent publications by Humphreys include the following papers:

  • Interventions for health workforce retention in rural and remote areas: a systematic review (2021, Human Resources for Health)
  • An immune dysfunction score for stratification of patients with acute infection based on whole-blood gene expression (2022, Science Translational Medicine)
  • Telehealth in remote Australia: a supplementary tool or an alternative model of care replacing face-to-face consultations? (2023, BMC Health Services Research)
  • Understanding and responding to the cost and health impact of short-term health staffing in remote and rural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health services: a mixed methods study protocol (2021, BMJ Open)
  • Comparison of urban and rural mortality rates across the lifespan in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a population-level study (2023, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health)

Humphreys has published multiple times in the following journals:

  • Human Resources for Health
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • BMJ Open
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Science Translational Medicine

Frequent coauthors in Humphreys' research collaborations include:

  • John Wakerman
  • Deborah Russell
  • Mark Ramjan
  • Yuejen Zhao
  • Supriya Mathew

Best Publications

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

    Karly Brenda Smith;John Stirling Humphreys;Murray G Wilson

  • Measuring spatial accessibility to primary care in rural areas: Improving the effectiveness of the two-step floating catchment area method

    Matthew Richard McGrail;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Farming and mental health problems and mental illness.

    Caitlin E Fraser;Karly B Smith;Fiona Judd;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Systematic review of effective retention incentives for health workers in rural and remote areas: Towards evidence-based policy

    Penelope Buykx;John Stirling Humphreys;John Wakerman;Dennis R Pashen

  • Primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia – a systematic review

    John Wakerman;John Stirling Humphreys;Robert Wells;Pim Kuipers

  • Understanding rural and remote health: a framework for analysis in Australia.

    Lisa Bourke;John Stirling Humphreys;John Wakerman;Judy Taylor;Judy Taylor;Judy Taylor

  • A randomised trial and economic evaluation of the effect of response mode on response rate, response bias, and item non-response in a survey of doctors

    Anthony Scott;Sung-Hee Jeon;Catherine Marie Joyce;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Measuring spatial accessibility to primary health care services: Utilising dynamic catchment sizes

    Matthew Richard McGrail;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Interventions for health workforce retention in rural and remote areas: a systematic review

    Deborah Russell;Supriya Mathew;Michelle Fitts;Zania Liddle

  • Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia: determining the factors that influence length of practice

    John S Humphreys;Michael P Jones;Judith A Jones;Paul R Mara

  • The index of rural access: an innovative integrated approach for measuring primary care access

    Matthew Richard McGrail;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Remote health workforce turnover and retention: what are the policy and practice priorities?

    John Wakerman;John Humphreys;Deborah J. Russell;Steven Guthridge

  • The "Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)" longitudinal survey - Protocol and baseline data for a prospective cohort study of Australian doctors' workforce participation

    Catherine Marie Joyce;Anthony Scott;Sung-Hee Jeon;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Helping policy-makers address rural health access problems.

    Deborah Russell;John Stirling Humphreys;Bernadette Maree Ward;Marita Chisholm

  • Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available?

    Susan L Thomas;John Wakerman;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Whither Rural Health? Reviewing a Decade of Progress in Rural Health

    John Humphreys;Desley Hegney;Joan Lipscombe;Gordon Gregory

  • Patterns of resident health workforce turnover and retention in remote communities of the Northern Territory of Australia, 2013–2015

    Deborah J Russell;Yuejen Zhao;Steven Guthridge;Mark Ramjan

  • Overseas-trained doctors in Australia: community integration and their intention to stay in a rural community.

    Gil-Soo Han;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Getting doctors into the bush: general practitioners' preferences for rural location

    Anthony Scott;Julia Witt;John Stirling Humphreys;Catherine Marie Joyce

  • Spatial access disparities to primary health care in rural and remote Australia.

    Matthew Richard McGrail;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Rurality and mental health: the role of accessibility

    Greg Murray;Fiona Judd;Henry J Jackson;Caitlin Fraser

  • Where is the evidence that rural exposure increases uptake of rural medical practice

    Geethanjali Piyawadani Ranmuthugala;John Stirling Humphreys;Barbara Solarsh;Lucie Walters

  • A critical review of rural medical workforce retention in Australia.

    John Humphreys;Judith Jones;Mike Jones;Graeme Hugo

Frequent Co-Authors

John Wakerman
John Wakerman Charles Darwin University
Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott University of Melbourne
Greg Murray
Greg Murray Swinburne University of Technology
Henry J. Jackson
Henry J. Jackson University of Melbourne
Teresa Iacono
Teresa Iacono La Trobe University
Garry Robins
Garry Robins University of Melbourne
Pamela Claire Snow
Pamela Claire Snow La Trobe University
Clint Chapple
Clint Chapple Purdue University West Lafayette
Barbara Griffin
Barbara Griffin Macquarie University
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly University of Newcastle Australia

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