Browsing Centre for Remote Health - Collected Works by Issue Date
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Collaborative review of pilot projects to inform policy: a methodological remedy for pilotitis?
(BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com, 2008) -
Primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia - a systematic review
(2008)Background One third of all Australians live outside of its major cities. Access to health services and health outcomes are generally poorer in rural and remote areas relative to metropolitan areas. In order to improve ... -
Systematic synthesis of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) project evaluation reports for evidence-based policy: a proof-of-concept study
(BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com, 2008-03-06)Background This paper presents the methodology and findings from a proof-of-concept study undertaken to explore the viability of conducting a systematic, largely qualitative synthesis of evaluation reports emanating from ... -
An evaluation of the Australian Football League Central Australian Responsible Alcohol Strategy 2005-07
(Australian Health Promotion Association, 2009)In a community context of high alcohol consumption and high rates of interpersonal violence, the strategies implemented were successful in decreasing alcohol consumption and related undesirable behaviours at football games. ... -
What is translational research? Background, concepts, and a definition
(Nova Science Publishers, 2011)This discussion paper aims to offer an overview and working definition of translational research, appropriate to health. Methods: Using scholarly and applied literature, the paper first identifies key challenges in achieving ... -
Indigenous patient migration patterns after hospitalisation and the potential impacts on mortality estimates
(Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association, 2013)Abstract: This study analysed interregional migration for Indigenous patients in the Northern Territory, Australia. Individual-level linked hospitalisation data between July 1998 and June 2011 were used to describe the ... -
"People like numbers": a descriptive study of cognitive assessment methods in clinical practice for Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2013-01-31)Achieving culturally fair assessments of cognitive functioning for Aboriginal people is difficult due to a scarcity of appropriately validated tools for use with this group. As a result, some Aboriginal people with cognitive ... -
Rural pharmacy: Teaching remote area nurses
(Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, 2014)Australians in rural and remote areas have shorter lives and higher rates of disease and injury than people in urban centres.1 In addition to having a greater burden of disease, populations in rural and remote areas face ... -
Front-Line Worker Perspectives on Indigenous Youth Suicide in Central Australia: Contributors and Prevention Strategies
(OMICS International, 2014)ABSTRACT: This paper presents the perspectives of Central Australian workers in relation to Aboriginal youth suicide. Interviews were conducted as part of a project to develop a data collection system and referral pathway ... -
A ‘key worker’ model to improve service pathways for Aboriginal people with dementia in remote Central Australia
(SARRAH Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health, 2014)Introduction: The provision of support services to Aboriginal Australians living with dementia in remote communities is complicated by factors such as cross-cultural and language barriers, long travelling distances and ... -
The (mis)matching of resources and assessed need in remote Aboriginal community aged care
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2015)Aim: To examine processes of aged-care needs assessment for Aboriginal people in remote central Australia to assist development of appropriate models of aged care. Method: A qualitative study involving 11 semistructured interviews ... -
Economies through Application of Nonmedical Primary-Preventative Health: Lessons from the Healthy Country Healthy People Experience of Australia’s Aboriginal People
(MDPI, 2016)Abstract: TheWorld Health Organization reports noncommunicable disease as a global pandemic. While national and international health research/policy bodies, such as the World Health Organization and the Australian Institute ... -
Improving preventive health care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary care settings
(BioMed Central, 2017-03-23)Background Like other colonised populations, Indigenous Australians experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. Preventable chronic disease is the largest contributor to the health differential between ... -
The excess burden of severe sepsis in Indigenous Australian children: can anything be done?
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Caring for country and the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
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Ruralization of students’ horizons: insights into Australian health professional students’ rural and remote placements
(Dove Press, 2018-01-31)Introduction: Health workforce shortages have driven the Australian and other Western governments to invest in engaging more health professional students in rural and remote placements. The aim of this qualitative study ...