Rural and Remote Australians
On average, Australians living in rural and remote areas have shorter lives, higher levels of disease and injury and poorer access to and use of health services, compared with people living in metropolitan areas. Poorer health outcomes in rural and remote areas may be due to multiple factors including lifestyle differences and a level of disadvantage related to education and employment opportunities, as well as access to health services....continue reading...
Academic article:
Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available?
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 which PHC services would be best provided by a resident health worker, and to outline attendant implementation issues...continue reading...
References
Australian Government Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2022, August 11). Rural and remote Australians. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/population-groups/rural-remote-australians/overview
Thomas, S., Wakerman, J., & Humphreys, J. S. (2015). Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available? International Journal for Equity in Health, 14(111), 1-8, DOI 10.1186/s12939-015-0228-1