Rural health outreach training

General medicine Indigenous outreach registrar training in rural Queensland.

The trainee was assigned to the Indigenous Cardiac Outreach Program (ICOP) and the Indigenous Respiratory Outreach Care Program. These services provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate outreach throughout remote Queensland and include multidisciplinary clinical teams and an Indigenous project coordinator (IPC). An integral component of the trainee position was its co-location with IPCs, wh...

One Health training, research, and outreach in North America

BACKGROUND The One Health (OH) concept, formerly referred to as 'One Medicine' in the later part of the 20th century, has gained exceptional popularity in the early 21st century, and numerous academic and non-academic institutions have developed One Health programs. OBJECTIVES To summarize One Health training, research, and outreach activities originating in North America. METHODS We used d...

Training outreach workers for AIDS prevention in rural India: is it sustainable?

Through a process of community diagnosis and participation, a non-governmental organization in rural Karnataka state in India selected and trained peer outreach workers to implement and sustain AIDS prevention education activities. This activity was part of a larger AIDS education project that aimed at creating awareness and promoting risk-reducing behaviours in the community. This paper descri...

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Outreach to Rural Businesses

Global health: burn outreach program.

The objective of this article is to outline the elements of an international burn care outreach program in a resource-constrained country. The program has grown from a collaborative effort with Ukrainian physicians and healthcare officials. With this collaboration, a multipronged approach has been developed to address the gaps in burn care as discovered by years of interaction with the medical ...