The vaccines' cold storage requirements and shipment rules put small, rural communities at a disadvantage, but that's only part of a long-running challenge.
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Hospitals are losing staff to quarantines as rural COVID-19 cases rise, and administrators fear flu season will make it worse. And then there's the politics.
For rural people, these stresses are cumulative and contribute to higher levels of trauma, mental ill-health and in some cases, suicidal behaviour.
Coronavirus cases have risen sharply across the Mountain West, Midwest and plains. Over 70% of nonmetropolitan counties are now "red zones," suggesting viral spread is out of control.
The pandemic has exacerbated existing issues of connectivity and access, but providers and patients are finding creative solutions.
Mobile health service providers should empower their personnel through the provision of periodic training on good customer relations.
Despite chronic housing need and persistent health and infrastructural inequities, northern communities are turning to the land and each other to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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.
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.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Director, Homicide Research Unit/Deputy Director, Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith University
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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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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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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
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Founder of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance & Emeritus Professor, UNSW
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Professor of Rural Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Chair of Population Oral Health + Head of School, Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Professor of Population Health and Nutrition, University of South Australia
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Hon Professor of Climate Change and Mental Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
