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Readying Health Services for Climate Change: A Policy Framework for Regional Development

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Bell, E.
  • Journal Name: American Journal of Public Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.101, No.5
  • Publisher: American Public Health Association
  • Published Location: Washington, United States
  • Country: United States

Climate change presents the biggest threat to human health in the 21st century. However, many public health leaders feel ill equipped to face the challenges of climate change and have been unable to make climate change a priority in service development. I explore how to achieve a regionally responsive whole-of-systems approach to climat ....

Reasons for Entering and Leaving Nursing: An Australian Regional Study

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Eley, Robert; Eley, Diann; Rogers-Clark, Cath
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 28, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Objective: To compare and contrast the reasons that nurses and nursing students provide for entering and leaving nursing. Design: A quantitative cross sectional cohort design with online survey. Setting: Regional public health service district and regional university nursing school. Subjects: Nurses (n= 272) and nursing students (n ....

Recommendations keynote : communique and Conference recommendations

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Fitzpatrick, Lesley
  • Journal Name: 9th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia

The Conference's 18 priority recommendations are presented. Two of the issues have been included in each of the nine biannual conferences. This Conference agrees that Indigenous life expectancy is still unacceptably low, and that there is still insufficient focus in national health research efforts on rural and remote communities. ....

Recruitment and retention of rural GPs : the role of skill substitution and home and work balance

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Peterson, Chris; Willis, Evan
  • Editors: Majoribanks, T,
  • Journal Name: Reimagining sociology : 2008 TASA Conference : the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association
  • ISBN: 9780734039842
  • Country: Australia

For sometime it has been recognised that there is a maldistribution of GPs, favouring metropolitan areas and disadvantaging country areas. This problem also exists in a number of other developed countries. There has been extensive research carried out in Australia as well as the US, UK, and Canada on how to attract and retain GPs i ....

Referrals to chiropractors and osteopaths: a survey of general practitioners in rural and regional New South Wales, Australia

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Wardle, Jon L; Sibbritt, Davi W; Adams, Jon
  • Journal Name: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies
  • Journal Number: 21
  • Publisher: BioMed Central
  • Published Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Chiropractic and osteopathy form a significant part of the healthcare setting in rural and regional Australia, with national registration of practitioners, public subsidies for services and high utilisation by the Australian public. However, despite their significant role in rural and regional Australia, there has been little exploration of the i ....

Regional Health Information Networks: Towards Sustainable Health Systems Globally

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Ghosh, Tip
  • Journal Name: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems
  • ISBN: 9781586037741
  • Country: United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Greece, New Zealand

There has been tremendous growth in regional health information organizations (RHIOs) in the US. There has been emergence of similar networks in the UK, Australia, Singapore, Greece, and New Zealand. Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=795906774041517;res=IELHEA ....

Regional microsimulation for improved service delivery in Australia: Centrelink's CuSP model

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: King, A; McLellan, J; Lloyd, R
  • Journal Name: 27th General Conference, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Stockholm
  • Publisher: National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

Centrelink has embarked on a Regional Microsimulation Modelling Project. The modelling work is being undertaken jointly with NATSEM. The purpose of the model under development, the Customer Service Projection (CuSP) Model, is to provide a tool that will assist decision-making through short to medium-term projection of customers and ....

Regional Universities Network: Engaging with regions, building a stronger nation

  • Year: 2013
  • Journal Number: Vol. 1
  • Publisher: Regional Universities Network
  • Published Location: Canberra ACT
  • Country: Australia

In support of RUN’s commitment to strengthening the contributions of member universities to regional development, the Network commissioned a study to investigate the full scope of the member universities' engagement with their regions and associated contributions, including social, cultural, environmental and economic aspects. Report Location ....

Rehabilitation Counsellor Preferences for Rural Work Settings: Results and Implications of an Australian Study

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Gittoes, Elise; Mpofu, Elias; Matthews, Lynda R
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

This study sought to identify influences on rehabilitation counsellors' preference to work in rural areas, including their recruitment to, and retention in, rural work settings. Participants were 38 practicing rehabilitation counsellors (31% males) recruited through the Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors and the Rehab ....

Replenishing and refining the Rural Health Strategy

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Journal Name: Partyline (Newsletter of the National Rural Health Alliance)
  • Country: Australia

The Commonwealth government's Rural Health Strategy funds a group of 13 programs. Current funding for the programs lapses on 30 June 2008. The Department of Health and Ageing recently undertook a review of many of the programs and others providing special rural health services. The National Rural Health Alliance welcomes any review ....

Report on Government Services 2000

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 174037150X
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2000 ....

Report on Government Services 2001

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740370325
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2001 ....

Report on Government Services 2002

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740370716
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2002 ....

Report on Government Services 2003

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740371100
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2003 ....

Report on Government Services 2004

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Productivity Commission
  • Journal Name: Report on Government Services
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740371356
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://www.pc.gov.au/gsp/rogs/2004 ....

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