A revolution in rural and remote Australia: bringing health education to the bush

Lawson, Kerrie A; Chew, Mabel; Weyden, Martin B Van Der

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2000.tb139363.x

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“…In several overseas countries, medical schools have been established in rural regions and it has been shown that graduates from these schools are more likely to remain in rural medical practice 13,14 . Australia is following this trend and rural medical schools are in varying stages of development around the nation 15 …”

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Surgical rotations in provincial South Australia: The traineess’ perspective

Bruening

Anthony

Maddern

2003

ANZ Journal of Surgery

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Surgical rotations in provincial South Australia: The traineess’ perspective

Bruening

Anthony

Maddern

2003

ANZ Journal of Surgery

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“…There is a recent parallel. In an initiative designed to improve health in rural Australia, the Federal Government announced in 1996 the creation of seven University Departments of Rural Health, with most receiving core Commonwealth funding of A$1.5 million annually for an initial 5 years 3 . One or more new Australian Institutes of Trauma Research, similarly funded, could be expected to contribute substantially to injury reduction in the years to come.…”

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Towards an Australian institute of trauma research: learning the lessons of history

Wigglesworth

2001

ANZ Journal of Surgery

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Although medical research in Australia in the 20th century has resulted in a reduction of approximately 95% in the death rate from the infectious and parasitic diseases, there has been no such beneficial outcome in road traffic accidents which, it is here suggested, were out of control from 1948 until 1970. In 1970 several concerned community groups (spearheaded by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) campaigned for the introduction of mandatory seat belt wearing. As a consequence of that initiative, and the virtual plethora of subsequent research activities, the road traffic accident rate has declined substantially in the last three decades. The death rate from drownings to toddlers (children under 5) was essentially unchanged until the 1970s when research into toddler pool deaths and the implementation of those research findings resulted in a downturn in toddler drownings in the last two decades. These two examples demonstrate the value of accident research and the implementation of research findings. By analogy with the contributions of the large medical research institutes, the creation of an Australian Institute of Trauma Research seems desirable and is here proposed.

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“…Nowhere is this problem more acute than in non‐metropolitan Australia, where many rural and remote communities suffer from inadequate access to appropriate and sustainable quality medical care (Humphreys and Dixon, 2004). Despite more than a decade of innovative rural workforce recruitment and retention policies and programmes (Holub and Williams, 1996; Humphreys et al ., 2000; Lawson et al ., 2000), the difficulty of attracting medical practitioners, particularly domestic medical graduates, to take up rural or remote practice continues for many regions.…”

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Rural Amenity and Medical Workforce Shortage: Is there a Relationship?

McGrail

Humphreys

Joyce

et al. 2011

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Rural Australia continues to experience a chronic medical workforce shortage. For a variety of reasons, recruiting to and retaining medical professionals in many rural communities remain difficult. A place's amenity is often cited as a significant contributing factor towards the differential attractiveness of different rural and remote practice locations for doctors. This study investigates the extent to which there is an association between medical workforce shortage across rural Australia and a selection of place characteristics descriptive of their isolation, climate, and overall rural amenity. Our main outcome measure, District of Workforce Shortage (DWS) designation, has been employed for over a decade to identify areas eligible for incentive measures designed to overcome the chronic rural medical workforce shortage. Somewhat surprisingly, our study found only a weak association between DWS and our measure of rural amenity. In contrast, alternative measures of medical workforce shortage showed a moderate‐to‐strong association with rural amenity. The weak explanatory value of rural amenity may reflect the limitations of the DWS measure or the lesser significance of rural amenity compared with other professional aspects relating to where doctors take up practice. Findings from this study also suggest that the current DWS measure provides an inadequate basis for targeting recruitment and retention incentives.

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A revolution in rural and remote Australia: bringing health education to the bush

Abstract: A network of academic health units in rural areas may help solve the problems of rural health

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Surgical rotations in provincial South Australia: The traineess’ perspective

Surgical rotations in provincial South Australia: The traineess’ perspective

Towards an Australian institute of trauma research: learning the lessons of history

Rural Amenity and Medical Workforce Shortage: Is there a Relationship?

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