Issue 56
Suicide safety planning - helping support those at risk of suicide
Every day, around eight Australians take their lives. These deaths represent tragic lost potential, and are devastating for families and others left behind....More
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Interdisciplinary professional networks foster community engagement
The connections these networks create improve our services to the people that need them....More
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INNOVATIONS IN REMOTE AND RURAL MENTAL HEALTHCARE
As the future of our national healthcare system is being shaped, it is vital to ensure service delivery and healthcare innovations are not unfairly distributed....More
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Bringing better mental health to rural areas through online programs
For a long time patients with mild to moderate common mental health conditions (depression and the various forms of anxiety disorders) in rural and remote regions have been feeling the pain of the lack of readily available and affordable mental health services. ...More
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Yarning Epilepsy – life changing training at your finger tips
Around 800,000 Australians experience the unpredictable and often debilitating effect of epilepsy. Epilepsy presents many challenges in daily life;...More
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Calling rural and remote health researchers
The 5th National Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium, to be held in Canberra on 6-7 September, will be an opportunity for rural and remote health ...More
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Heading outback for Ear Health
Australian Government’s Healthy Ears: Better Hearing, Better Listening program, which aims to improve ear health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander c...More
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Maintaining resilience in a not-for-profit remote health service provider
As the CEO of a remote health service delivery organisation I often wonder how other not-for-profit organisations manage in an environment of constant...More
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The challenges facing rural health – with a new Government
The National Rural Health Alliance’s Vote1RuralHealth election campaign was focussed on shining a light on the difficulties rural and remote Australians ha...More
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TACKLING adolescent drinking in rural Australia
In Australia, the rate of alcohol misuse and alcohol related harm is disproportionately higher in rural areas than in urban areas in adults as well as adol...More
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Clinical pharmacist services are needed in rural Australia
Many rural Australians have no direct access to pharmacists or pharmacy services. In many rural and remote areas it is not viable to have a community pharm...More
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