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Chronic disease self-management in Aboriginal communities: …

WebThe Chronic Disease Self-Management (CDSM) strategy for Aboriginal patients on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, was designed to develop and trial new program tools and processes for goal setting, behaviour change and self …

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Primary health care in rural and remote Australia: achieving equity …

WebDespite many rural and remote initiatives over recent years, the health needs of many Australian communities are still not adequately met. Residents of rural and remote communities continue to show poorer health outcomes than residents in metropolitan centres, while the health of Indigenous communities remains unacceptable.

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The National Strategic Framework for Rural and Remote Health

WebThe National Strategic Framework for Rural and Remote Health. Year: 2012. Author: Rural and Regional Health Australia. Publisher: Commonwealth of Australia. Published Location: Canberra, ACT. ISBN: 978-1-74241-672-4. Country: Australia. The planning, design, funding and delivery of quality, contemporary health care is universally a complex and

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A Social Health Atlas of Australia

WebA Social Health Atlas of Australia. The information in this atlas adds to a convincing body of evidence built up over a number of years in Australia on the striking disparities in health that exist between groups in the population. People of low socioeconomic status (those who are relatively socially or economically deprived) experience worse

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Medical dominance and power: a rural perspective

WebAustralia’s online library of regional research. Medical dominance and power: a rural perspective. Whilst historically medicine has maintained a position of dominance and power within the health care system there are suggestions that contemporary social trends such as managerialism, proletarianisation and the corporatisation of the health

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Issues and challenges facing rural hospitals

WebAustralia's rural hospitals face most of the same issues and challenges faced by metropolitan hospitals. However they also face additional challenges around geographic isolation, their iconic status and role as major employers in local communities, and their close relationship with community based health services.

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What Health Services within Rural Communities Tell Us about …

WebThere is a growing body of literature within social and cultural geography that explores notions of place, space, culture, race and identity. When health services in rural communities are explored using these notions, it can lead to multiple ways of understanding the cultural meanings inscribed within health services and how they can be embedded …

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Improving the accessibility of health services in urban and regional

WebEven though a wide range of health services exist in most urban and regional centres, they are not necessarily accessible. Accessible health services are physically accessible, affordable, appropriate and acceptable (that is, culturally competent and non-discriminatory) (ATSISJC 2009a; Scrimgeour & Scrimgeour 2008).

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Access All Areas: New Solutions for GP Shortages in Rural Australia

WebISBN: 978-1-925015-44-7. Country: Australia. Shortages of GP services have a big impact. When people can’t see a GP, they get sick with conditions that could be prevented. This is costly for the health system and for individuals. Many parts of Australia have too few GP services. The number of services per person in the lowest-access rural

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ABS Health and Community Service Industries Statistics

WebIncludes data on community services and the health industry. This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to health and community services. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on regional health and community service industries. The migrant population living

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Success stories in Indigenous health : a showcase of successful

WebThis publication is produced to highlight the success stories in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health which demonstrate that change for the better is possible; it highlights the value of Indigenous community control of health services and related programs; it contains the voices of Indigenous Australians telling their experiences as receivers and providers …

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Aunty Jean's Good Health Team: listening to the voices of the …

WebAunty Jean's Good Health Team began as a pilot program that aimed to develop a combined model of health promotion, education and self management that could be supportive of and sustain the development of good health behaviours and strategies for Aboriginal people with chronic and complex care needs.

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NSW Farmers blueprint for maintaining the mental health and …

WebThe Blueprint was launched in May 2006 by the NSW Farmers Association along with 18 other organisations. It is a simplified summary of key issues to address and major actions to take that the Rural Mental Health Network considers necessary to ease a 'mental health crisis' in regional areas - evidenced by farm male owners and managers committing …

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Small Towns Big Ideas: Case Studies in Small Town Community …

WebSmall Towns, Big Ideas is the result of an intensive, yearlong effort to identify and document the stories of small towns that are surviving - and in come cases, thriving - as hubs of civic and economic activity.

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Accessibility of Essential Services in Urban and Regional Australia

WebAccessibility of Essential Services in Urban and Regional Australia. The extent to which governments have an obligation to provide a core set of essential services to all taxpayers, irrespective of their place of residence, is a topic of regular political debate. Of particular concern is the quality of telecommunication, health and education

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Rural Communities and Rural Social Issues: Priorities for Research

WebThis report deals with priorities for research into rural communities and rural social issues. The report is based on an extensive literature review, together with information derived from a survey of policy-making agencies and researchers, as well as discussion at a national workshop held in Canberra on 19 May 1999.

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