Volume fourteen, Issue 2

Rural health issues often focus on diseases and conditions rather than life transitions. In this qualitative study, the perceptions of rural community health nurses who provide palliative care in residential settings provide findings useful in understanding this major life transition in this specific geographic context.

Food insecurity is a constant issue in a number of isolated communities. This article focuses on the implementation of a greenhouse in a remote, sub-Arctic community offering many lessons to be learned about the process.

Do the reindeer herders of the Russian North have a nutritional advantage over their urban counterparts?

One size fits all in primary care? This research suggests the many elements at play in Canadian rural settings can make a world of difference in family practice.

If you are concerned with rural women's health, this comprehensive review and analysis will be compelling reading.

Diabetes is a major health problem with serious impacts in rural America. This useful review of the literature examines what works specifically for rural adult populations.

Across the world, countries struggle to organise education and funding systems for equitable access to health services and clinicians. Could failure to achieve this in the USA be predicted from analysis of recent health and education policy? This commentary suggests this is so - but will we learn the lessons?

Infectious diarrhoea among Indigenous child populations is a global concern. This research evaluates a novel therapy in an rural-referral Australian hospital.

Does rurality plus chronic illness equal the same life-quality outcome globally? This Polish study adds to the evidence.

'Reflexivity' - the theory and methods of a new tool for those committed to culturally appropriate health research.

Why do rural-hospital registered nurses resign? This small but intriguing local Australian study offers generalizable insights to further understanding of a concerning rural workforce issue.

This case series from regional Australia alerts clinicians to a novel potential summer effect of a widely prescribed hypotensive medication.

In its focus on a recent assessment of the pediatric component of the US Indian Health Service EMS, this article offers information on infrastructural challenges - as well as proposed solutions.

Telehealth is now a common rural health service strategy evaluation of its effectiveness is still lacking. This article discusses research involving the TeleLink Nunavut Mental Health Program, providing valuable insights for potential application in other remote settings.

New knowledge about rural palliative care team-work adds value when devising rural palliative care services.

In a dilemma specific to traditional societies, these South African researchers explored whether traditional healers have a role in palliative care in rural areas.

Remote and isolated floating villages provide special challenges in Cambodian rural health delivery. This project report describes an equally special primary care intervention in this region.

In exploring the impact of a shift from full-time practising clinician to clinical teacher, South African specialists in a new rural clinical school demonstrated a commitment and genuine concern for students that is common to many in rural medical education.

Implementing an innovative rural education model in South Africa: how do students experience the rural clinical environment and community immersion?

Few specific health conditions have been thoroughly studied in the rural context. A case in point is the experience of rural women and 'health attack' symptoms. The qualitative research presented here attempts to address a knowledge gap for both clinicians and community members.

In cardiac emergencies, time is money - and heart muscle lost. Delays in intervention impact lives, health costs, economics, morbidity, and mortality. In urban settings advanced technician EKG transmission often occurs with direct transport to intervention facilities. In rural areas, stacked with basic emergency medical technicians, cardiac care with EKGs could and should be similarly advanced.

Rural low income women often have high rates of obesity. They also face challenges regarding education Can a goal-setting intervention be effective in moving toward behavioral change? How do individual, social, and environmental factors impact goal setting?

Lessons learned from the development of a community-based first aid training program in a remote Canadian Aboriginal community may be useful in other locations with similar circumstances.

Recruitment and retention of health professionals for rural and remote settings continues to be a challenge. This short communication focuses on rehabilitation professionals in Northern Ontario. Insights gained and provided can be compared and contrasted with that from other groups, such as nurses and physicians.

Studies on self-medication in Greece are rare, so this report from a community pharmacy in rural Greece will be of particular value to those delivering primary care.

Is rural residence associated with inappropriate care of neonates in Pakistan?

Do the personal health priorities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous remote mining town residents match Australian National Health Priorities - and do they add knowledge required to 'close the gap'?