Towards a Health Career for Rural and Remote Students: Cultural and Structural Barriers Influencing Choices

Durey, Angela; McNamara, Beverley; Larson, Ann

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1584.2003.tb00525.x

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“…In Australia, it is known that the undergraduateage rural population remains substantially underrepresented in urban university enrolments (James et al, 1999). The perceived barriers for rural students when thinking about urban universities include the high social, emotional and fi nancial costs of moving and the perceived inaccessibility of urban programmes (Durey, McNamara, & Larson, 2003). Regional universities are a key response, able to capture rural secondary-school students' identification of their own self-interest as the most important reason they would study at university (Gum, 2007).…”

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Does teaching an entire nursing degree rurally have more workforce impact than rural placements?

2010

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Education plays a key role in recruitment of health workforce to rural and remote locations. In Australia, Schools of Nursing have set up a variety of educational programmes to encourage rural workforce choices. These programmes include rural campuses and short-term rural placement programmes out of urban campuses. This study compares the relative workforce impacts of rural campus versus short-term rural placements out of urban campus. The single outcome measure - rural or urban location after graduation - showed that the rural school graduated a significantly higher proportion of rural-working graduates (chi(2) 4.46, p = 0.04). However there was no difference in the rural workforce choices of students from rural backgrounds, irrespective of their university location (chi(2) = 1.45, p = 0.23). We conclude that both rural universities and affirmative action for selecting rural students into nursing programmes are effective workforce strategies, but that rural campuses have the added benefit of encouraging under-represented rural students to access university education.

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“…Research reports now commonly include an ostensibly requisite list of structural and cultural inequalities that separate rural residents from their urban counterparts. These do not need re-stating here (see, for example, Alston, 2000Alston, , 2002Alston et al, 2006;Durey, McNamara, & Larson, 2003;Hall & Scheltens, 2005;Quine et al, 2003). Rural youth are understood through this at-risk, defi cit lens.…”

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Challenging homogenous representations of rural youth through a reconceptualisation of young rural Tasmanian’s sexual health strategies

Bishop

2013

Health Sociology Review

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Dominant explanations of young people's health risk behaviours echo essentialist notions of perceived invulnerability and risk misperception. Rural youth, however, are considered particularly 'at-risk'. In this paper I argue for a need to challenge rural youth discourses, as they can have counterproductive implications. To evidence this need I draw on interview data from research that examined sexual (and other) risk perceptions among young rural Tasmanians. Findings revealed that participants were aware of rural youth stereotypes and often sought to distinguish themselves from these; were cognisant of their susceptibility to risk; and employed particular strategies to reduce the risks they faced. While these strategies are not perfect or foolproof, they nonetheless signify young people's efforts to mitigate health risks. It is important to recognise this. What health services within rural communities tell us about Aboriginal people and Aboriginal health -Bronwyn Fredericks Fear of fl ying -Jennifer BakerKilling the mockingbird: Systems failure and a radical hope for regrounding responsibility and access to health care in a Mallee town community -Ian ColdwellUnderstanding contexts of family violence in rural, farming communities: Implications for rural women's health -Sarah Wendt and Jennie Hornosty Virtue ethics and rural professional healthcare roles -Andrew Crowden Rural responses to H1N1: A fl exible model for community collaboration -Denise O'Farrell and Debra Larsen AubreyWhat is health anyway?: Perceptions and experiences of health and health care from socio-economically disadvantaged rural residents -Julaine Allan, Patrick Ball and Margaret Alston Adopting a proactive approach to good health: A way forward for rural Australians -Joy Penman and Bronwyn Ellis

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“…Lack of information and resources about the wide variety of health professions available have been reported as a barrier, particularly for Indigenous and non-Indigenous rural students, in career planning (Durey et al, 2003). Career advisors in the Craven et al study (2004) found that Indigenous students often had received advice that was not correct if they had information at all.…”

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“It's Not About me, it's About the Community”: Culturally Relevant Health Career Promotion for Indigenous Students in Australia

Kelly

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Drysdale

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The numbers of Indigenous students studying in health career courses at the tertiary level is low. This paper describes a forum conducted as part of a project of national significance which examines the solutions and barriers for Indigenous student entry to medical and other health science education. Small group discussions and observations were used to determine how a group of Indigenous students, school age and mature, became interested in a health career, what influenced them, their expectations and where they sourced information. The initial design of the forum, based on other successful non-Indigenous health career events, was deemed inappropriate. When an Indigenous educator intervened, and used a more culturally appropriate approach, the engagement of the Indigenous students increased. The importance of culturally relevant health career promotion is a vital part of a complex series of actions needed to increase the recruitment and retention of Indigenous students into health science careers.

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Towards a Health Career for Rural and Remote Students: Cultural and Structural Barriers Influencing Choices

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Does teaching an entire nursing degree rurally have more workforce impact than rural placements?

Does teaching an entire nursing degree rurally have more workforce impact than rural placements?

Challenging homogenous representations of rural youth through a reconceptualisation of young rural Tasmanian’s sexual health strategies

“It's Not About me, it's About the Community”: Culturally Relevant Health Career Promotion for Indigenous Students in Australia

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