The Mental Health Emergency Care-Rural Access Program (MHEC-RAP) is a telepsychiatry program that was established to improve access to specialist emergency mental health care across rural and remote western NSW, Australia. This study uses interviews with ED providers to understand their experience of...
Objective: To evaluate an innovative rural service offering comprehensive primary health care for mental health service clients.Design: A formative evaluation using mixed methods.Setting: A rural NSW community.Participants: Fifteen health care providers and 120 adult clients.Intervention: A monthly clinic...
Stigma and discrimination towards people with mental health conditions by their communities are common worldwide. This can result in a range of negative outcomes for affected persons, including poor access to health care. However, evidence is still patchy from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs...
Retrospective multicentre study.Subjects: All active clients (n = 507) of the New South Wales (NSW) Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program (BIRP) community rehabilitation teams.Methods: Clinician-rated data were collected on client challenging behaviours, mental health and functional status, service utilisa...
People with intellectual and other cognitive disability in the criminal justice system : Report for NSW Family and Community Services, Ageing, Disability a... This report outlines the key findings of a research project on a cohort of 2,731 individuals in NSW whose mental health disorders and cog...
This heterogeneity may, at least to a certain extent, reflect other differentials in, for example: level of need; socio-economic advantage; and risky behaviours (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2022) as well as access related issues. Implications for Governance and Justice The NSW ...
The reproductive and mental health of women contributes significantly to their overall well-being. Three of the eight Millennium Development Goals are directly related to reproductive and sexual health while mental disorders make up three of the ten leading causes of disease burden in low and middle...
Callaghan, NSW: Teachers & Teaching Research Centre, The University of Newcastle. Retrieved 20 September 2024 from https://www.acses.edu.au/app/uploads/2019/09/Gore_Newcastle_FINAL.pdf Halsey, J. (2018). Independent review into regional, rural and remote education: Final report. Canberra, ...
In New South Wales (NSW), for example, an assurance of payment is required before treatment will be provided. If, however, that assurance is not available, then patients will 'receive only the minimum and necessary medical care to stabilise their condition' [1]. Strategies and practices for ...
Australia is one of sixteen countries who accept refugees for resettlement under the UNHCR resettlement program [29]. Full entitlement to Medicare and additional entitlements to health care for special needs, including oral health and mental health, are also provided by the Commonwealth, State and Te...