Rural and Remote Health is a not-for-profit, open-access, online-only, peer-reviewed academic publication. It aims to further rural and remote health education, research and practice. The primary purpose of the Journal is to publish and so provide an international knowledge-base of peer-reviewed material from rural health practitioners (medical, nursing and allied health professionals and health workers), educators, researchers and policy makers.
The core business of the Journal is to:
The Journal is committed to the accessibility of scholarly information, operates ethically (with regard to humans and animals, authorship and conflicts of interest) and upholds the integrity of scientific enquiry and publication. The authors, reviewers, honorary editorial positions and staff form the human content of the Journal and are treated fairly and with respect. All editorial, review and governance positions are honorary.
All material except some invited articles (editorials and commentaries), regularly published non-research material or news items and standing matter is reviewed by authors’ academic peers.
The journal does not accept paid third-party advertising.
Rural and Remote Health is indexed by AMI, APAFT, APAIS, APAIS-Health, ATSIROM, CABI, CINAHL, Current Contents, DOAJ, EBSCOhost, EMBASE, Informit (Health Collection), ProQuest, PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Sherpa Romeo and Web of Science (SSCI, SCIE). The Journal is also recognised by the Australian Government's ERA.
ISSN: 1445-6354
Number of issues per year: 4
Impact factor: 2.1
Amanda Barnard is Associate Dean, Rural Clinical School, Australian National University Medical School in Canberra, Australia. She works as a GP in Braidwood, a small rural town in south-east New South Wales. While her interests include rural medical education, interprofessional learning and health service delivery, she has a particular interest in the primary care management of respiratory illness.
Kati works as a rural doctor (General Practice and Rural Hospital Medicine)based at Rawene Hospital in Hokianga, NZ. She has a Senior Lecturer position with the Rural Section of the Department of General Practice & Rural Health and holds the Pacific Nations Liaison role at Va'a o Tautai, both at the University of Otago . She has an honorary clinical lecturer role with Auckland University.
Sally Hall is a Registered Nurse and health services researcher at the Australian National University, where she works in the Rural Clinical School as a Senior Lecturer and Research Lead. Sally’s clinical background is in rural critical care and nursing management, and she’s worked as a nurse in general practice, hospital and public health settings. She has also undertaken senior roles with rural primary health care organisations and state-funded regional health services. Her current research interests lie largely in primary care, focused on chronic disease, interprofessional practice and the relationships between complexity and quality of care. Her research training is centred on qualitative and mixed methods, including social science approaches, and research ethics. She is currently completing a PhD through the ANU Medical School examining clinical practice variation using routinely collected general practice data. Sally continues to live in rural New South Wales not far from where she grew up.
The urgent need for firearm suicide prevention research in the rural US
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Use of traditional health services in rural Indonesia
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Providers’ experiences of a Community Health Worker program in rural South Africa
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2023 Ngar-wu Wanyarra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Conference, 11 October 2023, Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Vic., Australia
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Health and Care Research Wales Conference 2023, 12 October 2023, Swansea, Wales, UK
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Rural Medicine Australia Conference (RMA2023), 18–21 October 2023, nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania), Australia
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12th EURIPA Rural Health Forum, 19–21 October 2023, Călimănești-Căciulata, Romania
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LIME Connection Conference X, 23–26 October 2023, Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australia
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The Network: Towards Unity For Health (TUFH 2023), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 23–26 October 2023
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WONCA World Conference, 26–29 October 2023, Sydney, Australia
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2023 Rural Health Association of Utah Annual Conference, 8–9 November 2023, St. George, UT, USA
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Rural Mental Health Conference (RMHC), 8–10 November 2023, Albury, Australia
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AIDA2023 Conference, 16–18 November 2023, nipaluna, lutruwita/Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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The Third Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology Conference (SEAIP 2023), 25–26 November 2023, Universitas Hasanuddin Makassar, Indonesia and online
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Rethinking Remote 2024 Conference, 6–7 June 2024, Eden Court, Inverness, Scotland
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