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cord-294209-6i8nu9l2	O’Sullivan, Belinda	Rural Pandemic Preparedness: The Risk, Resilience and Response Required of Primary Healthcare	2020-08-17		.txt	text/plain	4584	253	46	Rural communities have nuanced risks related to their mobility and interaction patterns coupled with heightened population needs, socio-economic disadvantage, and access and health service infrastructure challenges. Response consists of rural PHC teams adopting new preventative clinics, screening and ambulatory models to protect health workers from exposure whilst maximizing population screening and continuity of healthcare for vulnerable groups. It is imperative that mainstream pandemic policies recognize the nuance of rural settings and address resourcing and support strategies to each level of rural risk, resilience, and response for a strong health system ready for surge events. 28, 29 The focus on strong PHC is essential as most rural towns have small (<10 bed) (minimal high dependency care), or no hospitals and more remote communities rely on community clinics, nursing stations or visiting primary healthcare teams (Table 1) .	./cache/cord-294209-6i8nu9l2.txt	./txt/cord-294209-6i8nu9l2.txt