The Journal

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:

Support rural health by disseminating rural health information in published peer-reviewed articles and other information.
Advantage our system to become self-supporting/independent.
Raise the profile of rural and remote health academics.

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.

Bibliographic information

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

RRH Governance

Prof Masatoshi Matsumoto – Regional Editor

Masatoshi Matsumoto is the professor of rural health at Hiroshima University, Japan. He is a general practitioner who worked for some years in the least populated mountain village in rural Japan. He has taught rural health at Jichi Medical University, the Japanese medical school founded solely for producing rural doctors, for more than ten years. His academic interests are rural health policy, rural medical education, medical anthropology and rural community-based epidemiology.

Asian Editorial Panel

Vinod Bhat – Associate Editor

Professor of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. Research interests: general epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health; Environmental health.

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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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