解剖学和形态学
麻醉学
听力与言语-语言病理学
行为科学
心脏和心血管系统
细胞和组织工程学
临床神经病学
危重症监护医学
牙科,口腔外科和医学
皮肤病学
急诊医学
内分泌学和新陈代谢
肠胃学和肝脏学
老人病学和老年医学
卫生保健科学和服务
血液学
免疫学
传染病
综合和补充性医学
医学伦理学
医学信息学
医学实验室技术
医学,全科和内科
医学,法律
医学,研究和试验
神经系统科学
护理
营养学和饮食学
产科医学和妇科医学
肿瘤学
眼科学
整形外科学
耳鼻喉科学
病理学
儿科学
周围血管疾病
药理学和药剂学
生理学
基本医疗保健
精神病学
公共、环境和职业卫生
放射学,核医学和医学成像
康复学
生殖生物学
呼吸系统
风湿病学
运动科学
外科学
毒理学
热带医学
泌尿学和肾脏学
病毒学
老年医学
健康政策和服务
心理学,临床
abstract:CONTEXT:The World Health Organization's World report on disability calls upon all nations to 'remove the barriers which prevent [people with disabilities] from participating in their communities; getting a quality education, finding decent work, and having their voices heard' (p. 5). People with communication disabilit...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Rural clinicians require expertise across a broad range of specialties, presenting difficulty in maintaining currency of knowledge and application of best practice. Free open access medical education is a new paradigm in continuing professional education. Use of the internet and social media allows a globally accessib...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:An unbalanced geographical distribution of physicians leads to important differences in healthcare outcomes and difficulties in accessing healthcare services in rural areas. As in many other countries in the world, the geographical distribution of physicians in Turkey is unbalanced. Although there has been...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Early diagnosis and supervised treatment remains the mainstay for tuberculosis (TB) control in India. METHODS:A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess diagnostic and treatment practices of tuberculosis management as per the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme at a seconda...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The traditional view of paramedic practice is one of provision of emergency care and transport within community or industrial settings. With greater integration of emergency services with the overall health system, this role is changing. Paramedics, especially in rural areas, are now working more closely w...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:A lack of education capacity to support the development of medical supply management competency is a major issue affecting Pacific Islands countries (PICs). Limited human resources and underdeveloped medicines supply management competency are two significant impediments to reaching the health-related Mille...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:Diabetes mellitus is a healthcare burden in India. Seventy-four percent of India's population lives in rural areas with limited access to healthcare resources. Telemedicine can play a big role in screening people with diabetes at grassroots level. In the telescreening model, single field 45-degree photographs a...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The authors examined the effect of referrals from outreach specialists on total hospitalisation costs of rural Chinese patients receiving surgical treatment for digestive tract cancer at a tertiary hospital within a vertically integrated medical consortium. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was conduct...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Australia is the sixth largest country (in area) in the world with a total area of over 7.5 million km² (3 million miles²). To date much of the research and policy activity in the dental workforce has been based on simple statistical analysis including practitioner-to-population ratios; however, risks are ...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The next influenza pandemic is predicted to disproportionately impact marginalized populations, such as those living in geographically remote Aboriginal communities, and there remains a paucity of scientific literature regarding effective and feasible community mitigation strategies. In Canada, current pan...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:The Nepalese primary healthcare system at sub-district level consists of three different levels of health facility to serve the mostly rural population. The Ministry of Health and Population decentralised health services by handing over 1433 health facilities in 28 districts to Health Facility Operation and Man...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:Exposure of undergraduate medical students to general practice and community healthcare services is common practice in the international medical curricula. Nevertheless, proponents of the hospital and biotechnology based paradigm, which is still dominant within the medical academic environment, question both th...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:Diabetes is a chronic long-term disease with an increasing incidence. There is a need to increase access to effective care and to ensure such care is delivered as locally as possible. The geographical spread of NHS Highland Scotland presents additional challenges to ensuring a skilled workforce given education ...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Locally and internationally, there have been renewed calls for equitable access to healthcare services. Simultaneously, caseloads have become more challenging and contexts more complex, which may be overwhelming to new graduates. The South African context offers a particularly interesting example of these ...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe caries prevalence and experience among Aboriginal children; and (2) investigate the disparity in dental caries between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian children. As background, dental caries is a widespread disease within Aboriginal communities and it ...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Traditionally dental plaque, calculus and stains have been removed by scaling and polishing manually with hand instruments such as curettes, chisels, hoes and scalers. However, ultrasonic scaling is becoming the preferred method of initial periodontal treatment and maintenance, due to improved patient and operator com...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Portions of Montgomery County, Virginia, are designated a Medically Underserved Area with a large portion of this population experiencing limited access to healthcare services. In September 2008, the Federal Bureau of Primary Care awarded the authors a planning grant to assess community need in Montgomery ...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:In mid-July 2010 flash flooding in Pakistan destroyed the basic water, environmental sanitation and livelihood infrastructures in 82 districts. Two months later, the local press of Swat (northern Pakistan) reported that several residents of Marghazar town became ill and were hospitalized after drinking con...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Health professions students interested in future rural practice locations spend a week learning about and investigating all aspects of small town personal, professional and community life. This augments the mainly clinical experience provided by clinical rotations they complete as part of their professiona...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The chronic diseases associated with overweight and obesity are major contributors to the excess disease burden of Aboriginal Australians. Surveillance of overweight and obesity is required to monitor these conditions, and to develop and evaluate interventions to improve health and wellbeing. Remote Aborig...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:Providing health care in remote and very remote areas has long been a major concern in Indonesia. In order to improve access to quality health care for residents in these areas, various policies on recruitment and deployment of health workers have been implemented, among them compulsory service, contracted staf...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Although some characteristics of physicians are known to be associated with their recruitment in rural and remote areas, the factors that predict mobility of physicians, and in particular, their mobility to rural and distant areas are largely unknown. METHODS:Flows of all physicians (n=4268) among municip...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:As in many other countries, Australian consumers have recently had to accommodate increases in costs of basic food, and during the financial year 2007-2008 overall food prices rose by nearly 4%. Food costs are mediating factors in food choice, especially for low-income groups, where food security is often ...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Decreasing physical activity levels, particularly among youth, continue to be a prominent health concern in Canada, and youth living in rural areas may encounter unique facilitators and barriers to physical activity. In addition, current research suggests that overweight and obesity rates are higher for yo...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Smoke-free laws and the addition of graphic warning labels to cigarette packages represent public health policies that can potentially reduce smoking and smoking-related disease. The attitudes and beliefs relating to these policies were examined among residents of Ohio Appalachia, a mostly rural region wit...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Recruitment and retention of allied health professionals (AHPs) to remote and rural Australia is challenging and correlates with poorer health status of remote and rural residents. While much has been written about the recruitment and retention problem, this study took a new approach by reviewing the liter...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:This study was undertaken to assess the prevalence and predominant causes of low back pain (LBP) among peasant farmers in Ebubu community in South-south Nigeria. METHODS:This was a community based cross-sectional study of 310 consenting, adult, full-time farmers, recruited using a two-stage cluster sampli...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Health worker shortages and maldistribution have important implications for the capacity of health systems. Ghana has one of the highest physician emigration rates in the world, and over 75% of those who remain work in Ghana's two largest cities. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:There is evidence in the literature that rural background significantly encourages eventual rural practice. Given the shortage of healthcare providers in rural areas, we need to explore ways of ensuring throughput and success of rural-origin students in health sciences. It is therefore important to underst...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:There has been no research exploring the financial impact on the live renal donor in terms of testing, hospitalisation and surgery for kidney removal (known as nephrectomy). The only mention of financial issues in relation to live renal transplantation is the recipients' concerns in relation to monetary pa...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Breastfeeding provides health benefits to infants and mothers, yet many women decide against breastfeeding. This study examined differences in the prevalence of breastfeeding among national, urban, rural, and Appalachian regions of the USA. METHODS:Secondary data analysis of the US 2007 National Survey of...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:Entry to practice medical programs (graduate- and undergraduate-entry) in Australia are under considerable pressure to provide clinical training as a result of increased student numbers. At the same time modern medical curricula require the development of active placements in expanded settings to achieve gradua...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Diabetes is a growing worldwide problem, characterized by considerable ethnic variation and being particularly common in modernizing populations. Modernization is accompanied by a variety of stressful sociocultural changes that are believed to increase the risk of diabetes. Unfortunately, there is little a...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The environmental degradation following crude oil exploration in the Niger Delta has resulted in poverty for local rural dwellers. For those who are ill, if herbal treatments and/or self-medication with orthodox drugs are unsuccessful, the only alternative is expensive medical treatment in clinics. Surgica...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Skin diseases are common among school children worldwide. However, limited information is available about the socioeconomic correlates that contribute to their development among school children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). OBJECTIVES:to identify the prevalent transmissible and non-transmissible s...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Nurses in rural settings are often the first to assess and interpret the patient's clinical presentations. Therefore, an understanding of how nurses experience decision-making is important in terms of educational preparation, resource allocation to rural areas, institutional cultures, and patient outcomes....
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Maintaining hospital consultant staffing levels often requires the employment of locum tenens to meet service needs. This is particularly so in hospitals where core clinical services are run by a small number of permanently appointed consultants. The problems associated with locum employment are underestim...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Flinders University in Australia has had a rural longitudinal integrated clerkship for selected medical students, the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum, since 1997. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) in Canada introduced a similar clerkship for all NOSM students in 2007. An external evaluatio...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:CONTEXT:Suicide is an important public health issue among rural communities although there is no single pattern of suicide in rural areas. Despite this, there are common themes in much of the research evidence on suicide in rural areas. From the published research in the area, a conceptual model of rural suicide has be...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:The mental health of older adults is of increasing concern in an aging population and GPs are frequently the gatekeepers to specialist mental health services. Psychotherapy, social interventions and bibliotherapy all have an evidence-base for treating depression and anxiety in the elderly, as does pharmaco...
journal_title:Rural and remote health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2011-01-01 00:00:00