Rural and Remote Health Workers

Follow the links below to find information about the services provided by and for health workers in rural and remote areas.

Reviewed May 2011

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Title:   Rural and Regional Health Australia
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Welcome to the Australian Government' s Rural and Regional Health Australia page.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Rural Clinical Schools
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Rural Clinical Schools program is designed to encourage medical students to take up a career in rural practice by enabling them to undertake extended clinical training placements in rural locations.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practising in rural and other underserved areas
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In almost all countries around the world, there are fewer health care professionals working in rural and urban underserved areas. In urban areas in Australia, there is one doctor for every 970 people, but in rural areas there is one for every 1328 peo...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   CARPA Standard Treatment Manual (Book Review)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The new edition (fourth) of the CARPA Standard Treatment Manual provides a reference manual for remote Aboriginal health workers, nurses and doctors in the Northern Territory. It is part of a series of primary healthcare texts for the Northern Territory.
Date:   Feb 2004
Title:   When it's right in front of you: Assisting health care workers to manage the effects of violence in rural and remote Australia
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   This manual has been developed for health care workers, managers and employer organisations in rural and remote Australia to assist them prepare for and respond to violence in ways that will minimise its impact.
Date:   Aug 2002
Title:   Health in rural and remote Australia
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This report focuses on the health of Australians living in rural and remote areas. It compares the health of people living in rural and remote areas with that of those living in metropolitan areas across Australia. It shows that people living in rural and remote areas have many health disadvantages their urban counterparts do not experience, including shortages of health care providers and services in some areas, difficulties in accessing health care and greater exposure to injury.
Date:   Oct 2001

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