AIMS This paper is based on a review of the Australian and International literature relating to the nursing-medical division of labour. It also explores how the division of labour affects patient access to emergency care in small rural health services in Victoria, Australia. BACKGROUND The paper describes the future Australian health workforce and the implications for rural Victoria. The conc...

conclusions efforts to improve vaccination coverage should be taken into account regarding the differences in the factors that contribute to the incomplete vaccination status of children in the rural and urban areas. the current study findings indicate that vaccination services especially in the urban areas need to be reassessed to ensure that all children are covered. to develop and promote ch...

Hospital closures occur from time to time. These closures affect not only the patients that depend on the hospitals but also the economy in many rural areas. Many factors come into play when a hospital decides to shut off services. Although influencing reasons may vary, hospital closures are likely to be caused by financial shortfalls. In the USA recently, several rural hospitals have closed an...

The paper chronicles exploratory research in the domain of hospital electronic health records (EHR) adoption with a view to establishing a foundation for additional research. After reviewing the literature on technology integration within hospitals and health information exchange, the paper includes a review of the adoption and use of EHR by hospitals in southern US states to determine if anoma...

The goal of global equity in health care requires that the training of health-care professionals be better tuned to meet the needs of the communities they serve. In fact medical education is being driven into isolated communities by factors including workforce undersupply, education pedagogy, medical practice and research needs. Rural and remote medical education (RRME) happens in rural hospita...

maldistribution of health professionals between urban and rural areas has been a serious problem in china. urban hospitals attract most of the health professionals with serious shortages in rural areas. to address this issue, a number of policies have been implemented by the government, such as free medical education in exchange for obligatory rural service.

introduction: the family physician program has been implemented with the effort of the country's officials since 2005in the villages and towns with populations under 20,000 people to performe comfortable and convenient access to health services.the aim of this research was to  study knowledge and attitude of rural population toward the family physician program in rural regions of shahr-e kord. ...

1- introduction despite a lot of plans for rural and remote areas in recent years, many of iran’s local community's health and medical needs are not enough supplied, yet. residents of rural and remote community’s situations show that health care services are weaker than urban centers and health and medical indexes in indigenous communities remain unacceptable. many rural and remote communities ...

CONTEXT Ensuring an adequate mental health provider supply in rural and urban areas requires accessible methods of identifying provider types, practice locations, and practice productivity. PURPOSE To identify mental health shortage areas using existing licensing and survey data. METHODS The 1998-1999 Washington State Department of Health files on credentialed health professionals linked wi...

INTRODUCTION A pilot project in shared mental health care was initiated to explore opportunities to increase the capacity of the rural primary care system as a resource for older people with mental health needs. This was done within a framework for the delivery of best practices in geriatric mental health outreach. METHODS Shared-care strategies combining education and clinical consultation b...