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.

This Project Report describes the creation of pilot program aimed at creating culturally responsive end-of-life (EOL) planning in American Indian and Alaska Native communities and offers suggestions for the development of toolkits on EOL planning with Indigenous communities.

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.

Specialized care barriers are widespread and multifactorial, with consequences for timely access, health outcomes, and equity, especially in rural contexts. This article identifies and analyzes arrangements for providing specialized care in the Brazilian remote rural municipalities.

Evidence suggests people living with Parkinson's disease benefit from coordinated health care provided by a team of specialists. People who live in rural areas face additional challenges in accessing this care. This study tested the feasibility of providing a coordinated, multidisciplinary telehealth program to people with Parkinson's disease living in rural areas of the USA.

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.

What is known about Primary Health Care (PHC) in the Amazon? This scoping review explored the PHC implementations and their results in areas outside the urban centres in the nine Amazonian countries