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Table 3 Ideal standard of health service staff to population ratios by community size [18]

From: Describing and analysing primary health care system support for chronic illness care in Indigenous communities in Australia's Northern Territory – use of the Chronic Care Model

 

AHWs

Nurses

Doctors

Population range

Ideal staff: population ratios

> 3,000

1:350

1:500

1:1,000

1,300 – 2,999

1:250

1:450

1:1,000

800 – 1,299

1:200

1:300

1:800

400 – 799

1:100

1:200

1:600

250 – 399

1:75

1:200

1:400

75 – 249

1:75

1:150

1:400

< 75

1:50

1:150

1:400