Rural health advocates are pushing for more investments to address healthcare challenges facing regional Australia. The latest State of Australia Regions report outlined the Government has recognised major health issues facing rural areas and the need for a placed based investment. Rural reporter Georgia...
HEALTH equityWhen compared to their urban counterparts, rural regions have worse health outcomes and more challenges in health care access. As the only island state in the US, Hawai'i's unique geographic layout may magnify these disparities. However, there are limited publications on th...
This chapter will review the major challenges that the rural Chinese health care system is currently facing and that it will face in the future, and discuss how urbanization in China has affected the rural health care system and will hence influence the future epidemic of chronic disease in ...
These informal carers themselves face numerous physical and psychological stressors in attempting to balance the provision of care with their personal life, their work commitments and family responsibilities. However, little is known about the specific challenges facing rural carers and the barriers that...
Health workers in a predominantly rural district in Chad face a wide variety of challenges, and hence their perspectives need to be taken into account to improve health services interventions that aim at enhancing quality of care. Nurses’ willingness to further develop skills and knowledge, proactiv...
GPs in rural settings have faced unique challenges introducing primary care networks. Dr Manbinder Sidhu, Sarah Parkinson and Professor Judith Smith, the authors of a recent study into PCNs, describe some of the issues rural networks face.
To facilitate reform efforts, more research is needed on the current status of mental health services in rural long-term care. Also needed are new tools promoting the targeted use of provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to address the mental health needs of rural long-term care recipi...
Introduction: The Australian community aged care sector is facing a growing workforce crisis, particularly in rural and regional areas. Its predominantly female workforce is ageing, and recruiting younger, skilled workers is proving difficult. The service sector, too, is proving highly complex and dive...
Mobile devices enable greater flexibility in providing healthcare to patients and are the only logical way for home health workers to access EHR data in the field. However, reliable internet connectivity is not guaranteed when traveling to patients' homes, especially in rural areas. ...
Over 20 other issues were mentionedin the 43 responses, indicating adiversity of challenges facing rural small businesses. Small-town Business Assets Across the open-ended questions, people shared more about their business’s assets in 112 responses.More than twice as many of these responses listed...