Rural and Remote Health is an open-access international academic journal serving rural and remote communities and publishing articles by rural health practitioners, educators, researchers and policy makers.

Gastroschisis, a birth defect of the abdominal wall in which the baby's intestines are found outside of the baby's body, is one of the most common congenital abdominal wall defects. Although a survival rate of up to 90% is now achievable in many settings, management remains a challenge in Papua New Guinea, where there are only 0.7 doctors and 5 nurses per 10,000 people. This Clinical Case Report describes the care of a preterm male baby born with gastroschisis in Papua New Guinea.

Indigenous cultural identity has been suppressed by the conventions of academic publishing. This sees author and subject credibility resting on Western views of provenance, including institutional affiliation, college membership, educational qualifications and disciplinary background. This research colonialism reflects a power imbalance that must end. In this Editorial, three rural health research journals jointly announce their commitment to 'nothing about Indigenous Peoples, without Indigenous Peoples'. Articles submitted about any Indigenous community must have an Indigenous author or provide evidence of participatory engagement with the Indigenous communities.

Rural populations have disproportionately higher injury hospitalisation rates, higher morbidity and mortality rates and higher costs than patients injured in major cities. Poorer outcomes arise from inefficiencies in one or more potentially modifiable factors in the chain of survival. This Commentary discusses the burden of injury in Australia, presents a brief history of retrieval services in Queensland and discusses how remoteness requires a different kind of service delivery from point-of-injury to definitive care.

Recruiting and retaining qualified rural health workforce is of global significance. This study used a novel method, machine learning, to examine predictors of rural practice in the state of Utah in the USA. Income emerged as the most important factor associated with rural practice, followed by rural upbringing, updating earlier research and providing new insights into the literature.

For rural and remote clinicians, quality education is often difficult to access owing to geographic isolation, travel, time, expense constraints and lack of an onsite educator. This integrative review investigates the telehealth education available to rural practitioners, evaluates current telehealth education models, establishes the quality of education provided through telehealth and presents recommendations for supporting and developing an education model for rural and remote health practitioners through telehealth.