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Coastal Wheatbelt and Moora Service Plan 2012-2022

  • Year: 2012
  • Publisher: Western Australian Country Health Service
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

This Service Plan provides the strategic direction for service delivery for the Western Australian Country Health Service's Coastal Wheatbelt and Moora catchment for the next 10 years and will inform the implementation plan for the State Government's $565 million Southern Inland Health Initiative. The Service Plan was developed via a comprehensiv ....

Communication and cultural knowledge in Aboriginal health care: a review of two subprograms of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health's Indigenous Health and Education Research program

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Lowell, A
  • Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health
  • Published Location: Casuarina, NT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

The information and the three papers presented in this publication report on the review of the two subprograms Health Priorities and Communication of Health Information, and Cross-Cultural Education for Non-Aboriginal People conducted by the author during the first half of 1998. The papers are: Communication in Aboriginal health ca ....

Communities keeping kids safe: integrated responses to children and young people living with domestic violence

  • Year: 2004
  • Journal Name: Building stronger families: Conference on International Research Perspectives on Child and Family Welfare
  • Publisher: Centre for Research on Community and Children's Services
  • Published Location: Mackay, Qld
  • Country: Australia

Children living with domestic violence are at high risk of abuse and death, yet state child protection responses to children living with domestic violence have remained largely uncoordinated. This collaborative project between non government organisations and the statutory child protection authorities in the Mackay and Whitsunday R ....

Community development: Improving patient safety by enhancing the use of health services

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Baum, Fran; Freeman, Toby; Lawless, Angela; Jolley, Gwyneth
  • Journal Name: Australian Family Physician
  • Journal Number: Vol. 41, No. 6
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia, Northern Territory

Background: Community development plays an important role in increasing the access of disadvantaged groups to resources and services. We examined how community development in primary healthcare services may improve patient safety by involving people in activities that lead to their enhanced use of services.  Methods: Audits of ser ....

Community participation in rural primary health care: intervention or approach?

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Preston, Robyn; Waugh, Hilary; Larkins, Sarah; Taylor, Judy
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.16, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Community participation is considered important in primary health care development and there is some evidence to suggest it results in positive health outcomes. Through a process of synthesising existing evidence for the effectiveness of community participation in terms of health outcomes we identified several conceptual areas of confusion. This ....

Comparative analysis of rural community pharmacy practice in Western Australia in 2002 and 2006

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Wibowo, Yosi; Berbatis, Constantine G; Joyce, Andrew; Sunderland, VBruce
  • Journal Name: Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research
  • Journal Number: Vol. 42, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Background: Data are lacking on the characteristics of rural and remote community pharmacies in Western Australia (WA). Aim: To analyse characteristics of community pharmacies and pharmacists in rural WA in 2006 and to compare these with the results of a national survey conducted in 2002. Method: A survey was conducted in 2006 usin ....

Constructive compassion

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Abbott, T
  • Publisher: H.R. Nicholls Society Conference
  • Country: Australia

A profile of rural Australia is provided in this paper which makes comparisons between urban and rural living in terms of average incomes, access to services and unemployment problems. The federal government's Job Network and Work for the Dole policies are discussed along with the Regional Assistance Program, arguing that they have ....

Consumers and volunteers as collaborators: lessons from rural palliative care research

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Moorhouse, C
  • Journal Name: Good Health - good country: from conception to completion: proceedings of the 6th National Rural Health Conference, Canberra
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This paper considers health service consumer and volunteer involvement in general, with particular consideration of some of the implications for rural health and for rural people. Specifically it addresses the potential role for health service consumers and volunteers in rural health research. Issues discussed include: the essence ....

Coping with a crisis: human services in times of drought

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Alston, Margaret; Kent, Jenny
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.14, No.3
  • Country: Australia

This paper draws on original research conducted in 2003 with drought affected people and communities in inland NSW The paper outlines the scale of the drought, its social impacts and the resultant need for services. Income support mechanisms aimed at drought affected people and communities such as the Exceptional Services scheme ha ....

Corporate social responsibility in regional small and medium-sized enterprises in Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Moyeen, Abdul and Courvisanos, Jerry
  • Journal Name: The Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18 No. 3
  • Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association
  • Published Location: Armidale, NSW
  • ISBN: 1324-0935
  • Country: Australia

The recognition that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is important for business sustainability has focused the bulk of research on explicit normative arguments for its adoption by large corporations. This ignores the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the investigation of how such firms actually perform CSR activities. Thi ....

Cost of chronic illness in rural and regional Victoria

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Tamlyn, J
  • Journal Name: Health Issues
  • Journal Number: 74
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Having a good income does not protect people with chronic illness from poverty. In fact, going to work and earning an income can severely disadvantage people who have high medication needs by disqualifying them from the financial benefits of a Health Care card. Expecting that distance, isolation and lack of rural medical infrastruc ....

Culture at the centre of community based aged care in a remote Australian Indigenous setting : a case study of the development of Yuendumu Old People's Programme

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Smith, Kay; Grundy, John J; Nelson, Harry J
  • Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
  • Journal Number: Vol.10, No.2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

Yuendumu is a Warlpiri Aboriginal community 300 km north west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Since emerging from the welfare period in the early 1970s, a range of services have evolved with the aim of developing a comprehensive community based aged care service. In 2000, Mampu Maninja-kurlangu Jarlu Patu-ku Aboriginal Corpo ....

Darwin Revisited: Lessons Learned from a Decade-long Evolution of State-wide RHIO

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: McGowan, Julie J; Jordan, Cy; Sims, Thomas; Overhage, JMarc
  • Journal Name: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems
  • ISBN: 9781586037741
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Vermont

Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) in rural areas promise improved health care for many underserved populations. However, implementation in rural areas faces many challenges. One of the most rural states in the United States is in the process of creating a second comprehensive health information network and offers an ....

Developing an Exploratory Framework Linking Australian Aboriginal Peoples' Connection to Country and Concepts of Wellbeing

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Kingsley, Jonathan; Townsend, Mardie; Henderson-Wilson, Claire; Bolam, Bruce
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal Number: 10.2
  • Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International
  • Published Location: Basel, Switzerland
  • ISBN: 1661-7827
  • Country: Australia

Aboriginal people across Australia suffer significant health inequalities compared with the non-Indigenous population. Evidence indicates that inroads can be made to reduce these inequalities by better understanding social and cultural determinants of health, applying holistic notions of health and developing less rigid definitions of wellbeing. ....

Developing locally relevant outreach programs for same sex attracted youth in regional areas

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Brown, G; Edwards, J; Lobo, R
  • Journal Name: Health Promotion Journal of Australia: Official Journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Issue addressed: This paper reports on the process evaluation of the Same Sky project which was aimed at developing regional community support programs for same sex attracted youth (SSAY) and their families in four regional sites in Western Australia. A multi-faceted approach modelled on successful urban outreach programs was used ....

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