Issue 78

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Building with Community Hub signage
Editorial: Bold reform plan for rural health goes to the heart of local communities
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Together We Live – Land and Sea by Kevin Edmonstone, Cairns, artwork commissioned by JCU GP Training.
Three decades dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
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Man with young baby
Texts for dads all over Australia
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Two sets of hands holding each other
Support for rural Australia begins with acknowledging diversity
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Man with younfg child on shoulders
Boosting preconception health care
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People outside of wheels of wellness van
Saving lives by empowering rough sleepers
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Yalgoo Primary School student Angelica Simms with occupational therapy student Keely Fitzpatrick.
Allied health outreach program benefits remote school children
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Students from the new first-year cohort in the Dubbo MD stream.
First students commence four-year medical degree in Dubbo
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Dr Kate Gunn and Orroroo Farmer Kim, who participated in the co-design of ifarmwell.com.au.
Spread the word to help farmers learn new tools to cope
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Farmer, tractor and cows
Supporting the wellbeing of farmers must be a priority
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Man with caption
Think F.A.S.T: increasing stroke awareness
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A teen hanging out with two Livewire facilitators.
Livewire: supporting the mental wellbeing of seriously ill children
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Female doctor with elderly patient
Supporting rural communities with Senior Active Doctors
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Rural Aid counsellor Gary Bentley meets with a farmer.
Rural Aid triples counselling team
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R U OK? Sport [Image source R U OK?]
Empower people to meaningfully connect in your community
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Children placing hands in a circle on the ground
Seeking partners to support country children’s mental health
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A clinical setting in Ti Tree, NT. [Photo courtesy of RAHC]
Closing the health gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
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Pregnant woman with laptop
If there’s one positive from COVID-19 it’s telehealth – why throw it away?
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29% of Australians live in rural areas. Only 12% of surgeons live and work in rural areas. 18% of urban specialists provide intermittent rural outreach services. In five of the nine specialists less than five per cent of surgeons are based outside of cities.
Improving rural health outcomes a priority for RACS
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Four college students outside college
Bringing general practice training back to the colleges
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Pharmacists with mother and baby
Thank you to community pharmacists and pharmacy assistants
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Young female doctor with older woman
Improving health outcomes with new rural clinical trials network
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Man and woman facing sunset
Rural communities missing out on much-needed palliative care
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Young woman holding her forehead
Let’s Taco About It – helping young people with persistent pain
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FEAST program kids holding recipe books
Bringing FEAST to Australian rural and remote schools
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An Outback Futures staff member explaining the Rumble’s Quest tool to school children.
Making mental health and wellbeing as easy as child’s play
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Health staff providing preventive education.
Progress eliminating skin disease in northern Australia
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Wentworth, NSW. [Photo credit: Destination NSW]
Putting rural communities at the centre of health care
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NRHSN students group photo
Promoting rural and remote clinical placements
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Two medical students with training dummy
Training tomorrow’s health workforce in regional Victoria
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David Lockwood (centre) and other delegates at a Medicines Australia event in 2021, at which he shared his story.
All Australians should have the medicines they need when they need them
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Man feeling a prone mans shoulders
Increasing physiotherapy in comprehensive primary care
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Plants in school garden
Growing positive food habits in remote schools
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Dr Kate Murton (Public Health Registrar) and Charlie Sheridan (Cardiovascular Risk Community Awareness Coordinator) at Timberlink, Mount Gambier. [Photo credit: The Border Watch (borderwatch.com.au)]
Heart Health Checks: increasing uptake in regional and remote Australia
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Harrow Bush Nursing Centre staff, Victoria.
Investment needed in rural systems, organisations and networks
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Midlands bushfires.
We stand with people in the bush
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Graphic of Australia showing Flinders University locations in NT and SA
Increasing rural and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student enrolments in health
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Woman with girl doing balancing exercises
Improving the client experience by analysing data
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Person next to cows rear legs
Reconnecting and re-engaging after COVID-19
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Pregnant woman with man holding hands
Every moment matters
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Woman holding lettuce tray on the farm
Calls to improve health access in the bush
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Dementia in Practice podcast hosts (left to right): Dr Stefanie Daly, Dr Marita Long & Dr Hilton Koppe.
Dementia in Practice podcast
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Lesley Harvey, Play Therapist.
The flying play therapist helping children’s mental health and wellbeing
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Bears for Palliative Care
CWA continuing good works in local communities
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Left to right: Prof Helen McCutcheon (Curtin University), Prof Chris Moran (Curtin University), Dr Neal Fong (WACHS), Prof Harlene Hayne ONZM (Curtin University), Jeff Moffet (WACHS), Robyn Sermon (WACHS), Prof Suzanne Robinson (Curtin University).
New alliance to transform health care in WA has global possibilities
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Woman using laptop
Online wellbeing workshops for regional Victorian women
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Optometrist Sarah with Ronnie, Peter and Johnny in Laramba community after COVID-19 vaccinations and eye tests.
Eyecare and glasses in urban, remote and rural Aboriginal communities
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Woman on the beach holding her back
Reflections about pain
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Improving dental outcomes for rural patients is a key goal for ADA NSW President and regional dentist Dr Michael Jonas.
Redesigning rural health to improve dental outcomes
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Participants in the first evaluation co-design workshop.
Evaluating Indigenous eye health
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Associate Professor Alvin Chong, Specialist Dermatologist and Director of Education at the Skin Health Institute.
Teledermatology: the way of the future?
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Female doctor using laptop
Training and supporting GPs with quality, integrity and professionalism
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Purple truck on a red dirt track
Purple House making families well on Country
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Farmer with sheep
Reflections on harvest season and human challenges