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View article: Exploring strategies for enhancing access to oral healthcare for adults in Australia: a scoping review
Exploring strategies for enhancing access to oral healthcare for adults in Australia: a scoping review Open
Publicly funded adult oral healthcare services are mostly excluded in Australia's universal health coverage, despite oral disease being among the most common and costly health problems. Australia's vast land area and significant cultural d…
View article: Reconsidering Governance Models to Strengthen Rural Healthcare
Reconsidering Governance Models to Strengthen Rural Healthcare Open
This paper argues for a re-balancing of decision-making power in health systems away from metrocentric and technocratic norms and a fundamental re-shaping towards democratic and participatory models of governance. These changes are underst…
View article: Together and Apart: A Gender‐Informed Qualitative Analysis of Childhood Brain Tumour and the Parental Relationship
Together and Apart: A Gender‐Informed Qualitative Analysis of Childhood Brain Tumour and the Parental Relationship Open
Objective This study aims to investigate the gendered impact of childhood cancer on the parental relationship, specifically on the work of parenting together. Methods Parents/carers of a child diagnosed with a brain tumour and receiving ca…
View article: “We’re here to help them if they want to come”: A qualitative exploration of hospital staff perceptions and experiences with outpatient non-attendance
“We’re here to help them if they want to come”: A qualitative exploration of hospital staff perceptions and experiences with outpatient non-attendance Open
Background Patient non-attendance remains a major challenge for health services. Few studies have examined how health service providers think about, potentially address, and prioritise non-attendance within the scope of their practice. Thi…
View article: Emergence of a New Post‐Professional Allied Health Workforce to Address Complex Healthcare Needs of Rural Patients: A Qualitative Exploratory Study
Emergence of a New Post‐Professional Allied Health Workforce to Address Complex Healthcare Needs of Rural Patients: A Qualitative Exploratory Study Open
Objective To explore the nature and key functions of emerging allied health post‐professional roles and to identify the contextual factors that continue to shape their development and operationalisation in rural public healthcare settings.…
View article: What do nurses practising in rural, remote and isolated locations consider important for attraction and retention? A scoping review
What do nurses practising in rural, remote and isolated locations consider important for attraction and retention? A scoping review Open
Limited empirical research that combines a person-centred and whole-of-lifecycle approach to understanding the rural and remote nursing workforce was found. However, our analysis of existing evidence suggests that such approaches are requi…
View article: The capacities of workforces to 'surge' on demand: An unfolding disaster.
The capacities of workforces to 'surge' on demand: An unfolding disaster. Open
Climate change is escalating the frequency and intensity of natural disasters faced by communities across Australia, challenging our ability to plan for and respond effectively. A mobilised, skilled and sustainable surge workforce capacity…
View article: “We’re here to help them if they want to come”: A qualitative exploration of hospital staff perceptions and experiences with outpatient non-attendance
“We’re here to help them if they want to come”: A qualitative exploration of hospital staff perceptions and experiences with outpatient non-attendance Open
Background Patient non-attendance remains a major challenge for health services. Few studies have examined how health service providers think about, potentially address, and prioritise non-attendance within the scope of their practice. Thi…
View article: Attribute Development in Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiments: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Methods and Techniques to Inform Quantitative Instruments
Attribute Development in Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiments: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Methods and Techniques to Inform Quantitative Instruments Open
DCEs have the potential to become a mixed-method approach in which the qualitative phase informs a reduced list of attributes for a survey, serves the predesign decisions of the experiment by testing trade-offs, overlapping, understandabil…
View article: Disability, equity, and measurements of livability: A scoping review
Disability, equity, and measurements of livability: A scoping review Open
The assumptions of homogeneity in study populations in livability measurement literature overlook inequities experienced by people with disabilities and inhabitants of non-metropolitan settings. This review suggests recommendations for fut…
View article: Exploring the gap between refugee-background communities’ needs and existing community-based physical activity programs in Australia
Exploring the gap between refugee-background communities’ needs and existing community-based physical activity programs in Australia Open
Summary Physical activity programs run by local government, public health and not-for-profit sectors are a key public health strategy for improving rates of physical activity within local communities. However, these programs are underutili…
View article: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gamblers of East Asian Descent in Australia: A Comprehensive Review of Current Evidence
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gamblers of East Asian Descent in Australia: A Comprehensive Review of Current Evidence Open
As a country with one of the highest per capita gambling losses per year in the world, and an evolving multicultural profile, Australia has become an important setting in which to examine the harms and benefits related to gambling. The Aus…
View article: Making the case for place based governance in rural health workforce recruitment and retention: Lessons from Canada and Australia
Making the case for place based governance in rural health workforce recruitment and retention: Lessons from Canada and Australia Open
Rural communities around the world struggle to recruit and retain health workers to service the health needs of their diverse populations. The ensuing lack of access to essential health care contributes to inequalities between rurally-loca…
View article: Building readiness for inclusive practice in mainstream health services: A pre-inclusion framework to deconstruct exclusion
Building readiness for inclusive practice in mainstream health services: A pre-inclusion framework to deconstruct exclusion Open
Across the globe, people are not equitably included or respected by health services. This results in some people being ‘hardly reached’ and having less access to safe and appropriate care. While some health services have adopted specific a…
View article: ‘I think we're getting a bit clinical here’: A qualitative study of professionals' experiences of providing mental healthcare to young people within an Australian rural service
‘I think we're getting a bit clinical here’: A qualitative study of professionals' experiences of providing mental healthcare to young people within an Australian rural service Open
This paper contributes to scholarship on the medicalisation of mental health support for young people through a case study of a multidisciplinary mental health service in rural Australia. All staff (n = 13) working at the service participa…
View article: Exploring the role‐based challenges of providing culturally inclusive health care for maternal and child health nurses: Qualitative findings
Exploring the role‐based challenges of providing culturally inclusive health care for maternal and child health nurses: Qualitative findings Open
Aims To explore how maternal and child health nurses (MCHNs) working in a specific regionally located service perceive and experience delivering health care to a diverse population. Design Qualitative exploratory study. Methods Qualitative…
View article: Racism in a place of healthcare: The qualitative case of a rural Australian hospital
Racism in a place of healthcare: The qualitative case of a rural Australian hospital Open
Objective: This article explores how racism manifests in a rural place of healthcare from the perspectives of patients-both a patient’s experience of racial vilification and patients’ racially-prejudicial views towards healthcare providers…
View article: Why place matters: A rurally-orientated analysis of COVID-19’s differential impacts
Why place matters: A rurally-orientated analysis of COVID-19’s differential impacts Open
This paper considers the implications of COVID-19 during the early stages – or ‘first wave’ – of the 2020 pandemic in relation to the enduring urban/rural dichotomy within high-income economies. Drawing on popular media/news stories and po…
View article: Social Determinants of Rural Health Workforce Retention: A Scoping Review
Social Determinants of Rural Health Workforce Retention: A Scoping Review Open
Residents of rural and remote Australia have poorer health outcomes than their metropolitan counterparts. A major contributor to these health disparities is chronic and severe health workforce shortages outside of metropolitan areas—a glob…
View article: Experiences of health care among refugee and asylum seeker residents in regional Victoria
Experiences of health care among refugee and asylum seeker residents in regional Victoria Open
OBJECTIVE: This paper explores the role of culture in shaping human experiences related to health. The analysis of interviews with refugee and asylum seekers in a regional area of Australia seeks to give voice to some of the experiences of…
View article: Talking about overweight and obesity in rural Australian general practice
Talking about overweight and obesity in rural Australian general practice Open
As many patients' sole point of contact with the health care system, primary health care physicians (general practitioners [GPs] in Australia) are often positioned as key players in responding to rates of overweight and obesity in dominant…
View article: Improving inclusion in rural health services for marginalised community members: Developing a process for change
Improving inclusion in rural health services for marginalised community members: Developing a process for change Open
Australia’s mainstream health services located in rural contexts are mandated to provide health care to the entire local population. However, complex power relations embedded and reflected within the cultures of mainstream generalist healt…
View article: Improving inclusion in rural health services for marginalised community members: Developing a process for change
Improving inclusion in rural health services for marginalised community members: Developing a process for change Open
Australia’s mainstream health services located in rural contexts are mandated to provide health care to the entire local population. However, complex power relations embedded and reflected within the cultures of mainstream generalist healt…
View article: A modified Continuous Quality Improvement approach to improve culturally and socially inclusive care within rural health services
A modified Continuous Quality Improvement approach to improve culturally and socially inclusive care within rural health services Open
Background The sickest Australians are often those belonging to non‐privileged groups, including Indigenous Australians, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, intersex and queer people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse back…
View article: Competing food consumption discourses and proper gendered behaviour among over 50s: Are you really what you eat?
Competing food consumption discourses and proper gendered behaviour among over 50s: Are you really what you eat? Open
The national narratives about proper food consumption and its relationship to health and wellbeing has been articulated in many Australian public health campaigns. These shape awareness, knowledge and behaviours as well as reporting on foo…