Many rural communities have experienced economic decline in recent years and have poorer access to drug treatment services. This increases the risk of drug use and overdoses.
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Access to early medical abortion is an important part of women’s sexual and reproductive health care. Yet often country GPs don’t offer this service.
If you’re poor, female, or live in rural Australia, you’re less likely to access the NDIS or get as much bang for your buck.
A remote medicine program in Saskatchewan allows acutely ill children and pregnant women to be treated by specialist doctors, without leaving their communities.
Farmers experience drought-related stress. Improving their mental health enhances adaptive capacity and resilience. Drought support must address relationships between drought and mental health.
A new study has found that employing lay health workers at clinics can improve the way patients receive treatment.
The bill to provide universal health care in South Africa is not the silver bullet for the challenges in the health sector.
South Africa must ensure that healthcare workers understand the importance of nutrition and that they transfer the correct messages to caregivers.
Family physicians have started to play a key role in the district health system in South Africa.
Malaria elimination in Malawi is lagging because research isn’t being used properly.
Baringo county and other areas on the western side of Kenya are struggling to reduce their seasonal malaria caseloads.
The tale of an unsung South African hero in the field of community health.
Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
Many who need help with opioid addiction live far from dedicated treatment centers.
Although hypertension can easily be detected in Africa, up to half of the population are unaware of their condition.
Health outcomes for rural Americans have steadily deteriorated in recent decades even as they’ve improved elsewhere. The GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will worsen the problem.
The number of new HIV-positive cases has sharply declined – in most parts of the country. Nonurban areas, particularly in the South, are showing sharp increases. Why?
Providing health care to the bush not only benefits people’s health but the local economy.
Repeal and replacement of Obamacare would hurt rural health care, causing closure of hospitals and physician practices. What does this mean for a group of people whom Donald Trump has pledged to help?
Health workers in Kenya have reached an impasse with the government over working conditions. This has lead to a nationwide strike, leaving thousands without critical care.
Top contributors
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health and Professor of Rural Health Research, University of Newcastle
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Professor, Chair of Population Oral Health + Head of School, Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne
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Founder of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance & Emeritus Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Economics, Monash University
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Professor and Dean La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Head, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
