abstract：INTRODUCTION:Rural health workforce issues are a priority area for the Australian Government and substantial funding has been provided for rural education programs to address health workforce disparities across Australia's rural and remote communities. The Australian Government established a Rural Health Strategy in 20...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Lee YH,Barnard A,Owen C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:For many women, and particularly rural women, birthing locally and within their own community is important for personal, social and/or cultural reasons. If concerns about the woman or her baby mean transfer to a secondary or tertiary facility is necessary, this can be disruptive and stressful, especially i...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Patterson JA,Foureur M,Skinner JP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mental health literacy assists patients to recognize, manage and prevent emotional disorders such as depression. Depression literacy is a specific type that varies among populations; however, there is a paucity of research on the depression literacy of rural Americans. The purposes of this study were to ev...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Deen TL,Bridges AJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Papua New Guinea Department of Health monitors the performance of the health system using a computerised national health information system. This article draws on the recent evaluation of a national-wide donor-project community development initiative to highlight the problems of the lack of and disaggr...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Ashwell HE,Barclay L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The 'Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada' recognized that people living in rural and remote areas of Canada are at a disadvantage in health status, access to care and health professionals, and it considers the fight against these problems as a national priority. Although some attention has be...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Vanasse A,Courteau J,Cohen AA,Orzanco MG,Drouin C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Soon-to-be graduate nurses who choose to begin their career in rural hospital settings face not only the challenge of learning to do rural nursing, but also how to navigate the complex personal and professional relationships that characterize the close knit community of rural hospital teams. Since every en...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Sedgwick MG,Rougeau J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In Nepal, a number of private sector medical schools have opened recently; although sufficient numbers of doctors are graduating there continues to be a doctor shortage in rural areas. This article analysed the rural doctor shortage in Nepal and reviewed the international literature for strategies that may...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Shankar PR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:People living in rural and remote areas have been found to suffer higher rates of mental illness and psychological distress than their urban counterparts. However, rural and remote Australians also suffer from a lack of specialist mental health services. Mental health consumers are concerned about the lack of a...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Ellis IK,Philip T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:For those residing in rural and isolated parts of Canada, obtaining quality mental health services is often an unfulfilled wish. Rural and isolated communities share the problems of health status and access to care. Health deteriorates the greater the distance from urban areas in the following dimensions: lower...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Haggarty JM,Ryan-Nicholls KD,Jarva JA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In Nunavut, 60-80% of pregnant women report smoking in pregnancy, a rate five times the Canadian average. Nunavut also has the highest rates of preterm birth and low birth weight infants in Canada. The present study assessed whether the number of cigarettes smoked per day, as recorded in the first trimeste...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Mehaffey K,Higginson A,Cowan J,Osborne GM,Arbour LT

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:An urban-rural gap in stroke incidence or mortality has been reported. However, whether the effect of rurality on stroke is independent of the distribution of conventional individual-level risk factors and other community-level risk factors is inconclusive. METHODS:A cohort study was conducted involving 4...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Matsumoto M,Ishikawa S,Kajii E

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:In post-war Japan, a number of factors lead to a general shortage of physicians by the 1950s, which became acute in rural areas and has continued until recent times. ISSUE:Teamwork among national, prefectural, municipal governments and public medical schools has addressed this shortage of physicians. The natio...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Matsumoto M,Inoue K,Kajii E,Takeuchi K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:In February 2008, a new partnership between Maine Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine was formed to create a model medical school program. ISSUE:Major forces for change included: the increasing physician workforce needs of Maine, the need to increase access for medical education for Maine st...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Bing-You RG,Bates PW,Epstein SK,Kuhlik AB,Norris TE

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Health care and research in rural populations are often limited due to poor infrastructure and small sample sizes. However, such populations have a need for medical care and can be of great value when studying the health effects of lifestyle and genetic factors. The Northern Sweden Population Health Study ...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Igl W,Johansson A,Gyllensten U

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this project was to identify if there is a link between what nursing students learn in simulated clinical laboratory sessions and what they experience during their clinical placements. Clinical laboratories are commonly used to assist students to develop clinical nursing skills through simulatio...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Maginnis C,Croxon L

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:This article describes the development and evaluation of a tool to prioritize physiotherapy referrals in a remote, under-serviced region in Canada's eastern Arctic. The Baffin Region of Nunavut is home to approximately 16 000 people dispersed across 12 communities accessible only by air. Physiotherapists are ba...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Miller Mifflin T,Bzdell M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Violence and injuries are under-reported in developing countries, especially during natural disasters such as floods. Compounding this, affected areas are isolated from the rest of the country. During 2007 Bangladesh experienced two consecutive floods which affected almost one-third of the country. The obj...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Biswas A,Rahman A,Mashreky S,Rahman F,Dalal K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Occupational noise injury and hearing loss are common features of agricultural workforces internationally. Farmsafe Australia has identified hearing health as one of its 4 key priority goals and targets. Currently, approximately 60-70% of Australian farmers have measurable hearing loss, compared with 27% o...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Lower T,Fragar L,Depcynzksi J,Challinor K,Mills J,Williams W

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:High prevalence rates of obesity, particularly among those residing in US rural areas, and associated physical and psychosocial health consequences, direct attention to the need for effective prevention programs. The current study describes an initial step in developing a school-based obesity prevention pr...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Schetzina KE,Dalton WT 3rd,Lowe EF,Azzazy N,Vonwerssowetz KM,Givens C,Stern HP

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Health sciences programs are being designed to attract students who are likely to stay and practice in rural and northern Canada. Consequently, student recruitment and screening are increasingly including assessment of suitability for rural practice. Although retention factors among rural physicians and nu...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Manahan CM,Hardy CL,MacLeod ML

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The views of health managers and physicians working in non-metropolitan areas of Western Australia (WA) were sought about which telehealth services are most needed. METHOD:Chief executives and nurse managers of rural hospitals were sent a simple, open-ended questionnaire and asked to consider the current ...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Bahaadini K,Yogesan K,Wootton R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first case of the current pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus reported to WHO on 24 April 2009 on the American continent, the virus has spread in 160 countries and territories. By mid-2009, there were 135,000 cases and 816 deaths recorded. Pandemic preparedness is not advanced in most developing countries. Effective ...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Khan SI,Akbar SM,Hossain ST,Mahtab MA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study considered the views and experiences of 85 rural women, most of whom gave birth in two regional South Australian hospitals. METHOD:This descriptive survey used a validated questionnaire, modified for use in rural South Australia, which included open-ended questions to invite further comment. Wo...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Guest ML,Stamp GE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Internationally, nurse-led models of telephone triage have become commonplace in unscheduled healthcare delivery. Various existing models have had a positive impact on the delivery of healthcare services, often reducing the demand on accident and emergency departments and staff workload 'out of hours'. Our...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Roberts A,Heaney D,Haddow G,O'Donnell CA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer mortality worldwide has recently decreased by 6% after peaking in the 1990s. Based on the recently published results of the European Randomised Study for Screening of Prostate Cancer (which showed a relative prostate cancer mortality reduction of at least 20% by PSA-based population screening) it could...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Stamatiou K,Skolarikos A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Farm health and safety has historically focussed on strategies such as injury prevention, safety audits and fulfilling legislative responsibilities. However, farmer injuries mask deeper health issues including higher rates of cancer, suicides, cardiovascular disease and stress. The relationship between occ...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Brumby SA,Willder SJ,Martin J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:There is growing evidence that in rural areas cancer mortality is higher and referral occurs later, indicating different patterns of care. In Scotland services to rural areas have been organized through 'managed clinical networks'. In some cases, these organizational networks have been structured so that t...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Baird G,Flynn R,Baxter G,Donnelly M,Lawrence J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Iran has a major land mine injury problem in its border areas. Mine injuries have a high mortality and morbidity, and the injuries generally occur in remote areas. Iran has a well developed system of rural health workers and clinics, covering most border areas. These have mainly had prevention, immunizatio...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Nafissi N,Saghafinia M,Balochi K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many rural Australian communities continue to endure a prolonged drought. The mental health effects of short-term natural disaster are well known; those of a long-term and chronic natural disaster such as drought are less well understood. However, in addition to immediate distress there are likely to be feelings of lo...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Sartore GM,Kelly B,Stain H,Albrecht G,Higginbotham N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Time spent in remote medicine as an undergraduate is influential in career choice in Australia and Northern America. However, its influence is not known in smaller countries, where recruitment into rural medicine is also problematic. Differences across countries mean work is required to explore determinant...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Wilson M,Cleland J

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The community care philosophy in Australia has led to a number of older people remaining in their own homes, dependant on others for the majority of their care needs. A small number of older people being cared for by a family member or friend will move into residential aged care facilities for full-time ca...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Ford GL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Malnutrition is a serious public health problem, particularly in developing countries, linked to a substantial increase in the risk of mortality and morbidity. Women and young children are most often affected. Rural disadvantage is a known factor, but little attention has been paid to rural-urban disparity...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Uthman OA,Aremu O

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Surveys of dental health among Aboriginal children in Canada, using scales such as the Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth (DMFT) score, indicate that Aboriginal children have 2 to 3 times poorer oral health compared with other populations. A remote First Nations community approached requested assistance in...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Macnab AJ,Rozmus J,Benton D,Gagnon FA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Child farm safety has been identified as a key public health concern in Australia. To date, communication strategies for child farm safety have primarily targeted rural based adults as custodians of children, and because the greatest proportion of deaths occur in pre-school children. However, emerging inte...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Bryant L,Hoon EA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Although parents in developed market economies regard head lice infections (pediculosis) as a significant problem, health departments generally rate pediculosis as a low priority health issue, encouraging parents to manage and control it. But how well equipped and willing are parents to manage the infectio...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Counahan ML,Andrews RM,Weld H,Helen W,Speare R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) comprising Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are situated over 2500 km from Perth, Australia, and are accessible by commercial aircraft only twice a week. The IOT Health Service (IOTHS) is administered from the Department of Transport and Regional Services in Canberra...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Roach SM,Downes S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The poor health of Indigenous Australians is highlighted by the fact that their life expectancy is 17 years less than that of non-Indigenous Australians. The cause of this health disparity is multifactorial, and includes the under use of health services and medications. Distance, cost, and embarrassment, or fear of se...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Stoneman J,Taylor SJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Indigenous children in Australia have higher dental caries levels than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Indigenous communities in South Australia's mid-north region have identified dental health as one of their top health priorities. In response to this, an oral health program based at the Pika Wiya Heal...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Parker EJ,Jamieson LM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) is an important health problem in Thailand. Due to the geographical limitation of marine salt distribution, the Northern and Northeastern regions of Thailand are endemic areas of this disorder. In this study, a cross-sectional survey on the domestic use of iodine-enriched salt by the p...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Wiwanitkit V

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:St Mary's Hospital in Rehoboth, Namibia, attends to all individuals who have health problems that are considered serious by the community. The aim of this study was to describe the existing suicide management approach in Rehoboth. METHOD:Clinical charts of all patients who attended St Mary's Hospital Reho...

journal_title：Rural and remote health

authors： Ikealumba NV,Couper ID

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00