BACKGROUND An approach to improve management of student clinical placements, the Building Teams for Quality Learning project, was trialed in three different health services. In a previous paper the authors explored in some detail the factors associated with considerable success of this approach at one of these services. In this paper, the authors extend this work with further analysis to determ...

Preventive care service is considered pivotal on the background of demographic ageing and a rise in chronic diseases in China. The disparity in utilization of preventive care services between urban and rural in China is a serious issue. In this paper, we explored factors associated with urban-rural disparity in utilization of preventive care services in China, and determined how much of the urb...

OBJECTIVE This study presents a set of concepts underpinning rural practice that could assist teaching health and medical students. OUTCOME Five concepts, important in distinguishing rural health practice, are presented and discussed. These are rural-urban health differentials, access, confidentiality, cultural safety and team practice. Together these concepts impact the ways in which rural h...

BACKGROUND The aim of this rapid knowledge synthesis was to provide relevant research evidence to inform the implementation of a new health service in Nova Scotia, Canada: Collaborative Emergency Centres (CECs). CECs propose to deliver both primary and urgent care to rural populations where traditional delivery is a challenge. This paper reports on the methods used in a rapid knowledge synthesi...

BACKGROUND Access to comprehensive and quality health care services is difficult for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in rural regions. Barriers to health care for rural Latinos include lack of insurance, language barriers and cultural differences. For the Latino immigrant population in rural areas, barriers to access are compounded. HEALTH NEEDS OF RURAL AREAS THE CASE OF WALHALLA, SC:...

BACKGROUND Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use--of which naturopathy constitutes a significant proportion--accounts for approximately half of all health consultations and half of out-of-pocket expenditure in Australia. Data also suggest CAM use is highest amongst rural Australians. Unfortunately little is known about the grass-roots reality of naturopathy or other CAM use in rural ...

Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Rural Health Panel receives continuing support from RUPRI, the result of a Congressional Special Grant, administered through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. REDESIGNING MEDICARE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR RURAL BENEFICIARIES AND HEALT...

In many countries rural health is an accepted part of the healthcare system and an independent discipline. In Hungary, rural health has been an important part of the healthcare system from the 19th Century. From the 1980s there have been reports of common problems in rural health internationally, such as accessibility, socio-economic inequalities and the influence of cultural background on acce...

INTRODUCTION Australians in rural and remote areas experience poorer health status compared with many metropolitan residents, due partly to inequitable access to primary health care (PHC) services. Building on recent research that identified PHC services which all Australians should be able to access regardless of where they live, this paper aims to define the population thresholds governing wh...