Dental practitioner rural work movements: a systematic review

Diana Godwin

qualifications: BA, BEc

contribution: literature review

position: Postgraduate student

Australia

Diana's work has focused on the disparities of oral health outcomes faced by disadvantaged rural populations in Australia. This is thought to be in part due to problems associated with access and a maldistribution of the oral health workforce away from rural areas towards urban population centres.

Ha Hoang

qualifications: PhD

contribution: literature review

position: Postdoctoral fellow

Australia

Leonard Crocombe

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Senior research fellow

Australia

My main reaserch focus is into rural oral health.

Erica Bell

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor & Deputy director

Australia

Dr Erica Bell works as a research fellow in the Hobart office of the University Department of Rural Health, University of Tasmania. She is involved in a broad range of collaborative projects, including rural health education, youth residential rehabilitation service delivery, and falls prevention for older clients. Recently a paper she wrote on self-management of chronic diseases was accepted by the Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine. She has led many projects involving diverse educators, community and stakeholder groups, producing over forty publications that have helped develop policy and practices in the post-compulsory education sectors. She has been a secretariat member on ministerial reviews of education, and was one of two consultants who produced Australia's first national guidelines on assessment quality and equity for the Australasian Curriculum, Assessment and Certification Authorities.