Effectively decentralising HIV and AIDS treatment services helps to improve universal health care. But in Nigeria this approach comes with many challenges.
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The stories of HIV positive women in Tanzania often go unheard outside the communities in which they live.
When people migrate they can end up worse off when it comes to getting access to health care. Analysing migration trends can help drive local public health policy towards the correct targets.
Poor people with disabilities living in rural South Africa are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to accessing health care.
Small businesses such as pubs and hairdressers are key to allowing people with dementia to maintain meaningful social ties.
Rural workplaces often tacitly encourage excessive drinking and even drugtaking.
What are the issues facing rural and regional Australia? The challenges are many and varied – and only some have made the national political agenda – but these areas deserve better than neglect.
In Ethiopia health extension workers in rural areas fulfill an essential service - but they feel they have no career path.
Not only are women in regional and rural areas more likely to experience partner violence than their city counterparts, it’s more difficult to leave and re-establish a new life.
In some parts of Australia, patients are twice to three times more likely to avoid seeing their GP because they can’t afford it, according to figures released today.
Community health workers are finally being formally integrated into the health system – but they need support to make an impact.
Rwanda requires the use of renewable energy to power up healthcare clinics in rural parts of the country.
Skilled mid level health care workers can relieve the workload of other health care workers and can help make universal health care a reality for South Africans.
Three features of a medical school help predict where medical students will eventually work as doctors: selection, the curriculum, and the professionalism of the newly-qualified doctors.
At a ceremony in Townsville today, four people will graduate from James Cook University’s physician assistant program. They will be Australia’s first bachelor’s graduates in that field. This is an important…
An Aussie smile is an instant indicator of socioeconomic status, employability and self-esteem. It’s also a predictor of physical health. So it’s shocking that Australians’ dental health has not improved…
The recent multiple homicide in a small Victorian township, coming barely a month after a mass shooting in rural New South Wales, may give the impression that firearm-related murders in rural Australia…
People living in remote and rural Australia already have a shorter life expectancies and higher rates of premature deaths. Last week’s federal budget will not only make that worse, it will introduce even…
Would you pay A$9 for six mushrooms in inner-city Melbourne? Or A$4.50 for one small piece of broccoli or cauliflower in Sydney? Probably not – but this is what rural Australians are being asked to fork…
The first minutes of a medical emergency can be crucial for a patient’s chances of recovery, but what if that emergency happens in a rural setting, far away from help? Scottish ambulance crews respond…
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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