Integrating rural health care

Roberts, Russell

doi:10.1111/ajr.12350

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“…Overall, the evidence base on interventions to correct imbalances in primary care in rural areas is narrow. Findings are limited by a general lack of sufficient methodologically sound research (Roberts, 2017). Furthermore, the available evidence is biased towards programmes targeting physicians.…”

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Priority setting and cross-country learning: the relevance of TO-REACH for primary care

Groenewegen

Hansen²,

Fahy³

et al. 2022

Prim Health Care Res Dev

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Aim: To inform the primary care community about priorities for research in primary care as came up from the European project TO-REACH and to discuss transferability of service and policy innovations between countries. Background: TO-REACH stands for Transfer of Organizational innovations for Resilient, Effective, equitable, Accessible, sustainable and Comprehensive Health services and systems. This EU-funded project has put health systems and services research higher on the European agenda and has led to the current development of a European ‘Partnership Transforming Health and Care Systems’. Methods: To identify research priorities, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. Policy documents and strategic roadmaps were searched, and priorities were mapped. Stakeholders were involved through national roundtable consultations and online consultations. Regarding transferability, we carried out a review of the literature, guided by a conceptual framework, and using a snowballing approach. Findings: Primary care emerged as an important priority from the inventory, as are areas that are conducive to strengthening primary care, such as workforce policies. The large variation in service organisation and policy around primary care in Europe is a huge potential for cross-country learning. However, the simple transfer of primary care service and policy arrangements from one health system to another has a big chance to fail, unless known conditions for successful transfer are taken into account and gaps in our knowledge about transfer are resolved.

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Section: Gaps In Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Priority setting and cross-country learning: the relevance of TO-REACH for primary care

Groenewegen

Hansen²,

Fahy³

et al. 2022

Prim Health Care Res Dev

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The Role of Social Workers in Improving the Physical Health of People Who Use Mental Health Services

Maylea

Roberts

Craik

2019

Australian Social Work

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Older people's mental health in rural areas: Converting policy into service development, service access and a sustainable workforce

Jackson

Roberts

McKay

2019

Australian J Rural Health

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This paper describes the older people's mental health workforce development, policy development and implementation process and quantifies the rural service delivery and access impacts over a 15‐year period in New South Wales. It highlights the factors that are considered to be critical to successful rural service development such as commitment to funding parity, investment in strong local service leadership, and development of innovative, locally adapted rural service models. Building on these foundations, the Older People's Mental Health Program in New South Wales was able to address key challenges relating to service access in rural health and develop new, sustainable specialist older people's mental health service networks. A sustained focus on policy and implementation which explicitly supports rural older people's mental health service enhancement, and development of evidence‐based models of care, has significantly improved access to specialist mental health care for older people in rural areas. It has delivered 23 new rural older people's mental health community teams and a 440% increase in the number of people accessing these teams. It has also doubled the number of acute inpatient units and established new specialist mental health‐residential aged care partnership services in rural New South Wales. It has resulted in increased access to services for the “older old,” while not diminishing older people's rates of access to general adult mental health services. It has also supported innovative, sustainable rural service models such as “hub and spoke” models and step‐up step‐down inpatient services that build on existing health and hospital infrastructure and link geographically dispersed specialist clinicians and services together in rural service delivery.

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Integrating rural health care

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Priority setting and cross-country learning: the relevance of TO-REACH for primary care

Priority setting and cross-country learning: the relevance of TO-REACH for primary care

The Role of Social Workers in Improving the Physical Health of People Who Use Mental Health Services

Older people's mental health in rural areas: Converting policy into service development, service access and a sustainable workforce

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