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Barriers to rural health care from the provider perspective.

Rural and remote health, 2023
INTRODUCTION Rural populations routinely rank poorly on common health indicators. While it is understood that rural residents face barriers to health care, the exact nature of these barriers remains unclear.
Avinash Maganty, M. Byrnes, M. Hamm, Rachel Wasilko, L. Sabik, B. Davies, B. Jacobs   +6 more
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Supporting nursing and allied health student placements in rural and remote Australia: a narrative review of publications by university departments of rural health

Medical Journal of Australia, 2023
University departments of rural health are Commonwealth‐funded to improve recruitment and retention of the rural allied health and nursing (including midwifery) workforce, primarily through student placements.
S. Walsh, V. Versace, S. Thompson, L. Browne, S. Knight, D. Lyle, Geoffrey R. Argus, Martin Jones   +7 more
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What shapes research and research capacity building in rural health services? Context matters

The Australian journal of rural health, 2022
Objective To determine the contextual factors influencing research and research capacity building in rural health settings. Design Qualitative study using semi‐structured telephone interviews to collect data regarding health professionals’ research ...
A. Wong Shee, C. Quilliam, Denis Corboy, K. Glenister, C. McKinstry, A. Beauchamp, Laura Alston, D. Maybery, Drew Aras, Kevin P. Mc Namara   +9 more
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Global Insights Into Rural Health Workers' Job Satisfaction: A Scientometric Perspective

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Introduction Rural health workers (RHWs) play an irreplaceable role in ensuring and improving the health level of rural residents as the most basic and extensive medical service providers in rural areas.
Yuquan Chen, Yanwei You, Yiche Wang, Yutong Wang, T. Dai   +4 more
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Addressing the lack of research in rural communities through building rural health service research: Establishment of a research unit in Colac, a medium rural town

The Australian journal of rural health, 2022
Rural health services are leadership bodies within their communities and play a key role in addressing rural health disparities through providing evidencebased prevention initiatives, community health care and clinical services.1 Relative to metropolitan
Laura Alston, Michael Field, Fiona Brew, Warren S. Payne, Drew Aras, V. Versace   +5 more
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There is an urgent need for a global rural health research agenda

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2022
People living in rural areas generally experience adverse health outcomes compared to their urban counterparts. They experience a greater burden of non-communicable diseases including: diabetes, hypertension, stroke, kidney disease, and chronic ...
L. Bain, O. Adeagbo
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Call to Action: Rural Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

Circulation, 2020
Understanding and addressing the unique health needs of people residing in rural America is critical to the American Heart Association's pursuit of a world with longer, healthier lives.
R. Harrington, R. Califf, A. Balamurugan, Nancy A Brown, Regina M. Benjamin, W. Braund, J. Hipp, Madeleine Konig, E. Sanchez, Karen E. Joynt Maddox   +9 more
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Telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for rural health disparities

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2020
Telehealth programs have long held promise for addressing rural health disparities perpetuated by inadequate healthcare access. The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic and accompanying social distancing measures have hastened the implementation ...
Kelly A. Hirko, J. Kerver, Sabrina Ford, Chelsea Szafranski, J. Beckett, C. Kitchen, Andrea L. Wendling   +6 more
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The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States.

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2020
Rural-urban differences in morbidity and mortality across the United States have been well documented and termed the "rural mortality penalty". However, research studies frequently treat rural areas as homogeneous and often do not account for geospatial ...
Charlotte E Miller, R. Vasan
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COVID-19: Challenges and its consequences for rural health care in India

Public Health in Practice, 2020
This commentary highlights the potential consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for India’s rural population. The rural health care system in India is not adequate or prepared to contain COVID-19 transmission, especially in many densely populated northern
Anant Kumar, K. Rajasekharan Nayar, S. Koya   +2 more
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