The Community, the Workplace, and Public Health Measures: A Qualitative Study of Factors that Impacted the Wellbeing of Rural Health Service Staff in Victoria, Australia, during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Table 1

Participating health service characteristics.

Degree of remoteness as per modified monash model (2019)	Staff number
1^†	7,100
1^¶	160
2	4,300
3	930
4	772
4	549
4	518
4	517
4	515

^†Main tertiary hospital located in regional city classified as MMM category 1; however, the health service also operates community health centres in MMM categories 2–5. ^¶Head office located in metropolitan capital city of Victoria; however, majority of staff are located in stations situated across rural Victoria. Organisation services entire state (MMM category 1–MMM category 6; please note: there are no MMM category 7 regions in Victoria) however has a particular focus on rural communities.