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 March 2009

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Title:   Media release. Training dentists in Wagga Wagga
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Construction is complete and students are enrolled at the new School of Dentistry and Health Science at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Media release. A home for rural health professionals in Katherine
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Centre for Remote Health is setting up a home in Katherine to help attract health professionals to the Northern Territory.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Media release. New allied health web-based training package launched
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Education and training for allied health workers is now just a mouse click away after a new web-based training package was launched.
Date:   Aug 2009
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:   Jun 2009
Title:   Rural Health Support, Education & Training (RHSET) Program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The RHSET program contributes towards the recruitment and retention of rural health workers.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Media release. $2.5 Million for new scholarships to boost health services in the bush
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Rural and regional health services will get a boost through new scholarships that enable allied health students to undertake clinical placements in rural or remote communities during their degrees.
Date:   Jan 2009
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:   A large number of educational, financial and regulatory interventions have been implemented in an attempt to address the inequitable distribution of health care professionals. While observational studies suggest that certain factors may influence provid...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Media release. Recruiting and deploying doctors in the NT
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government has established the Remote Area Health Corps (RAHC) to recruit and deploy doctors, nurses and allied health workers in remote Northern Territory Indigenous communities.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Office of Rural Health
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Welcome to the Australian Government's Office of Rural Health website.
Date:   Jun 2008
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 (NHMRC)
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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