Many rural communities have experienced economic decline in recent years and have poorer access to drug treatment services. This increases the risk of drug use and overdoses.
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Access to early medical abortion is an important part of women’s sexual and reproductive health care. Yet often country GPs don’t offer this service.
If you’re poor, female, or live in rural Australia, you’re less likely to access the NDIS or get as much bang for your buck.
A remote medicine program in Saskatchewan allows acutely ill children and pregnant women to be treated by specialist doctors, without leaving their communities.
Farmers experience drought-related stress. Improving their mental health enhances adaptive capacity and resilience. Drought support must address relationships between drought and mental health.
A new study has found that employing lay health workers at clinics can improve the way patients receive treatment.
The bill to provide universal health care in South Africa is not the silver bullet for the challenges in the health sector.
South Africa must ensure that healthcare workers understand the importance of nutrition and that they transfer the correct messages to caregivers.
Family physicians have started to play a key role in the district health system in South Africa.
Malaria elimination in Malawi is lagging because research isn’t being used properly.
Baringo county and other areas on the western side of Kenya are struggling to reduce their seasonal malaria caseloads.
The tale of an unsung South African hero in the field of community health.
Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
Many who need help with opioid addiction live far from dedicated treatment centers.
Although hypertension can easily be detected in Africa, up to half of the population are unaware of their condition.
Health outcomes for rural Americans have steadily deteriorated in recent decades even as they’ve improved elsewhere. The GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will worsen the problem.
The number of new HIV-positive cases has sharply declined – in most parts of the country. Nonurban areas, particularly in the South, are showing sharp increases. Why?
Providing health care to the bush not only benefits people’s health but the local economy.
Repeal and replacement of Obamacare would hurt rural health care, causing closure of hospitals and physician practices. What does this mean for a group of people whom Donald Trump has pledged to help?
Health workers in Kenya have reached an impasse with the government over working conditions. This has lead to a nationwide strike, leaving thousands without critical care.
Top contributors
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of South Carolina
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Director, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health and Professor of Rural Health Research, University of Newcastle
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Senior Researcher in Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Rural Health Research, Deakin University
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Equitable Cancer Outcomes across Rural and Remote Australia (ECORRA), Deakin University
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Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Pharmaco-economics/pharmaco-epidemiology in the Departments of Health Administration & Management and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Honorary lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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National Clinician Scholar, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan