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• " Mission Impossible"? Midwives' experiences counseling pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus  Academic Article
• "There's no point in complaining, nothing changes": rural disaffection with complaints as an improvement method  Academic Article
• A cluster randomised trial to assess the impact of clinical pathways on AMI management in rural Australian emergency departments  Academic Article
• A comparison of age-standardised event rates for acute and chronic coronary heart disease in metropolitan and regional/remote Victoria: a retrospective cohort study  Academic Article
• A cross sectional survey of attitudes, awareness and uptake of the parental pertussis booster vaccine as part of a cocooning strategy, Victoria, Australia  Academic Article
• A different approach to Indigenous drink driving is needed to incorporate cultural factors in outer regional and remote Australia  Letter
• A far greater sense of community: the impact of volunteer behaviour on the wellness of rural older Australians  Academic Article
• A longitudinal observation study assessing changes in indicators of serious injury and violence with alcohol controls in four remote indigenous Australian communities in far north Queensland (2000-2015) 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1117 Public Health and Health Services  Academic Article
• A modified Continuous Quality Improvement approach to improve culturally and socially inclusive care within rural health services  Academic Article
• A qualitative study exploring barriers to a model of shared care for pre-school children's oral health  Academic Article
• A review of dental caries in Australian aboriginal children: The health inequalities perspective  Academic Article
• A scoping review of the association between rural medical education and rural practice location  Academic Article
• A survey of remote Aboriginal horticulture and community gardens in the Northern Territory  Academic Article
• A theory of how rural health services contribute to community sustainability  Academic Article
• Adapting the ‘Family Wellbeing’ empowerment program to the needs of remote Indigenous school children  Academic Article
• Addressing the problem of rural community engagement in healthcare service design  Academic Article
• Airway clearance techniques in acute exacerbations of COPD: a survey of Australian physiotherapy practice  Academic Article
• An evaluation of social work services in a cancer accommodation facility for rural South Australians  Academic Article
• An investigation of nutrition-related risk factors in an isolated Aboriginal community in Northern Australia: advantages of a traditionally-orientated life-style  Academic Article
• An online study of Australian Enrolled Nurse conversion  Academic Article
• Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition and Successful Ageing in Elderly Individuals: The Multinational MEDIS Study  Academic Article
• Applying social innovation theory to examine how community co-designed health services develop: using a case study approach and mixed methods  Academic Article
• Are rural health professionals also social entrepreneurs?  Academic Article
• Are rural people getting heartsmart?  Academic Article
• Assessing clinical urgency via telephone in rural Australia  Academic Article
• Assessing the value of rural community health services  Academic Article
• Attitudes towards seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: findings from a large, community-based survey of consumers, carers and mental health professionals  Academic Article
• Australia needs more occupational therapists in rural mental health services  Academic Article
• Barriers to nurses providing psychosocial care in the Australian rural context  Academic Article
• Better than nothing? Patient-delivered partner therapy and partner notification for chlamydia: the views of Australian general practitioners  Academic Article
• Bivariate and multivariate analysis of the skin ridge pattern intensities  Academic Article
• Building social capital among rural, older Australians through information and communication technologies: A review article  Academic Article
• Can a chronic disease management pulmonary rehabilitation program for COPD reduce acute rural hospital utilization?  Academic Article
• Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Rural Household Impoverishment in China: What Role Does the New Cooperative Health Insurance Scheme Play?  Academic Article
• Challenges for Researchers Investigating Contraceptive Use and Pregnancy Intentions of Young Women Living in Urban and Rural Areas of Australia: Face-to-Face Discussions to Increase Participation in a Web-Based Survey  Academic Article
• Challenges to the provision of community aged care services across rural Australia: perceptions of service managers  Academic Article
• Characteristics of the community-level diet of Aboriginal people in remote northern Australia  Academic Article
• Clinical placement and rurality of career commencement: a pilot study.  Academic Article
• Cognitive Impairment and Dietary Habits Among Elders: The Velestino Study  Academic Article
• Cohort Profile: The VicGeneration (VicGen) study: An Australian oral health birth cohort  Academic Article
• Community ambulation: Influences on therapists and clients reasoning and decision making  Academic Article
• Community participation to design rural primary healthcare services  Academic Article
• Community perspectives on the impact of policy change on linking social capital in a rural community  Academic Article
• Competencies and skills for remote and rural maternity care: a review of the literature  Academic Article
• Compositional, contextual and collective community factors in mental health and wellbeing in Australian rural communities.  Academic Article
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cluster in an Australian rural city  Academic Article
• Defining the gap: a systematic review of the difference in rates of diabetes-related foot complications in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and non-Indigenous Australians  Academic Article
• Dermal ridge patterns and fertility in a Polish rural sample  Academic Article
• Design of occupational therapy on-road test routes and related validity issues  Academic Article
• Determining the reach and capacity of rural and regional Aboriginal community food programs in Victoria  Letter
• Developing sustainable social programmes for rural ethnic seniors: perspectives of community stakeholders  Academic Article
• Development of body image, eating disturbance, and general psychological functioning in adolescent females: a replication using covariance structure modeling in an Australian sample  Academic Article
• Diagnosing cancer in the bush: a mixed-methods study of symptom appraisal and help-seeking behaviour in people with cancer from rural Western Australia  Academic Article
• Differences in injury rates in child motor vehicle passengers in rural and urban areas in New South Wales, July 2000 to June 2004  Academic Article
• Distribution of essential medicines to primary care institutions in Hubei of China: effects of centralized procurement arrangements  Academic Article
• Does smoking status affect the association between baseline white blood cell count and in-hospital mortality of patients presented with Acute Coronary Syndrome? The Greek study of Acute Coronary Syndromes (GREECS)  Academic Article
• E-health: potential benefits and challenges in providing and accessing sexual health services  Academic Article
• Effect of religiosity/spirituality and sense of coherence on depression within a rural population in Greece: the Spili III project  Academic Article
• Effective Community-Based Physical Activity Interventions for Older Adults Living in Rural and Regional Areas: A Systematic Review  Academic Article
• Epidemiology of Overweight and Obesity in a Greek Adult Population: the ATTICA Study  Academic Article
• Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections in global indigenous populations: data availability and gaps  Academic Article
• Equity of colorectal cancer screening: cross-sectional analysis of National Bowel Cancer Screening Program data for South Australia  Academic Article
• Evidence for low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in Australian indigenous peoples: a systematic review  Academic Article
• FUTURE GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE POSSIBLY MANIFEST IN YOUTH  Academic Article
• Factors Associated with Myopia in School Children in China: The Beijing Childhood Eye Study  Academic Article
• Factors associated with hysterectomy among women in Australia  Academic Article
• Family and practitioner perspectives on telehealth for services to young children with autism  Academic Article
• Few urban–rural differences in older carers' access to community services  Academic Article
• Fish oil supplementation, learning and behaviour in indigenous australian children from a remote community school: A pilot feasibility study  Academic Article
• Fitness-to-practice concerns in rural undergraduate medical education: A qualitative study  Academic Article
• Five-year longitudinal study of cannabis users in three remote Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia  Academic Article
• Fluctuations in money availability within an income cycle impacts diet quality of remote Indigenous Australians  Academic Article
• Food and beverage price discounts to improve health in remote Aboriginal communities: mixed method evaluation of a natural experiment  Academic Article
• Food habits in Aborigines and persons of European descent of southeastern Australia  Academic Article
• Forty-years (1961–2001) of all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality and its determinants: the Corfu cohort from the Seven Countries Study  Academic Article
• Funding Victoria's public hospitals: The casemix policy of 2000-2001  Academic Article
• Genetical distance and dermatogiyphic characters: I. interpopulation distance coefficients  Academic Article
• Greek Children Living in Rural Areas Are Heavier but Fitter Compared to Their Urban Counterparts: A Comparative, Time-Series (1997-2008) Analysis  Academic Article
• Has urbanization become a risk factor for dental caries in Kerala, India: a cross-sectional study of children aged 6 and 12 years  Academic Article
• Health Diaries in a Rural Australian Study  Academic Article
• Health and Nutritional Status of Elderly Greek Migrants to Melbourne, Australia  Academic Article
• Health care service provision for country people with developmental disability: an Australian perspective  Academic Article
• Health literacy in rural areas of China: hypertension knowledge survey.  Academic Article
• Health worker recruitment and deployment in remote areas of Indonesia  Academic Article
• Heterosexual female adolescents' decision-making about sexual intercourse and pregnancy in rural Ontario, Canada  Academic Article
• High Neospora caninum seroprevalence in wild and domestic dogs in Victoria, Australia, compared to 20 years ago  Academic Article
• Higher uptake of long-acting reversible and permanent methods of contraception by Australian women living in rural and remote areas  Academic Article
• Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: A baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care  Academic Article
• Hospital services in Tasmania  Academic Article
• Hospitalisation of children under 15 years in Victoria.  Academic Article
• How do rural consumers contribute to quality assurance of health services?  Academic Article
• Hyperinsulinaemia and obesity in Aborigines of south-eastern Australia, with comparisons from rural and urban Europid populations  Academic Article
• Identifying residual transmission of lymphatic filariasis after mass drug administration: Comparing school-based versus community-based surveillance - American Samoa, 2016  Academic Article
• Illicit and injecting drug use among Indigenous young people in urban, regional and remote Australia  Academic Article
• Impact of diabetes on maternal-fetal outcomes in Manitoba: Relationship with ethnic and environmental factors  Academic Article
• Implementation of oral health initiatives by Australian rural communities: Factors for success  Academic Article
• Improved maternity care if midwives learn to perform ultrasound: a qualitative study of Rwandan midwives’ experiences and views of obstetric ultrasound  Academic Article
• Incidence and prevalence rates for occupational contact dermatitis in an Australian suburban area  Academic Article
• Increased carotid intima-media thickness in remote and urban Indigenous Australians: impact of diabetes and components of the metabolic syndrome  Academic Article
• Increasing general practitioners' confidence and self-efficacy in managing obesity: a mixed methods study  Academic Article
• Inequity in health: older rural driving and dementia  Academic Article
• Is an advance care planning model feasible in community palliative care? A multi-site action research approach  Academic Article
• Is car use related with successful aging of older adults? Results from the multinational Mediterranean islands study  Academic Article
• Is simulation a substitute for real life clinical experience in midwifery? A qualitative examination of perceptions of educational leaders  Academic Article
• Is traditional rural lifestyle a barrier for quality of life assessment? A case study using the Short Form 36 in a rural Chinese population  Academic Article
• Knowledge and Practice Among Healthcare Providers in Rural Vietnam Regarding Sexually Transmitted Infections  Academic Article
• LGBT Health in the Midlands: A Rural/Urban Comparison of Basic Health Indicators  Academic Article
• Lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted infections among women in North rural Vietnam  Academic Article
• Larger Regional and Rural Areas in Victoria, Australia, Experience More Alcohol-Related Injury Presentations at Emergency Departments  Academic Article
• Level of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Among Elderly Individuals Living in Mediterranean Islands: Nutritional Report from the Medis Study  Academic Article
• Level of adherence to the Mediterranean diet among children from Cyprus: the CYKIDS study  Academic Article
• Local governance responses to social inclusion for older rural Victorians: Building resources, opportunities and capabilities  Academic Article
• Making rural and remote communities more age-friendly: experts' perspectives on issues, challenges, and priorities  Academic Article
• Management of chronic hepatitis B in the Torres Strait Islands: an identified need for a comprehensive public health approach to chronic hepatitis B in remote Australian Indigenous communities  Academic Article
• Maternal health care professionals' perspectives on the provision and use of antenatal and delivery care: a qualitative descriptive study in rural Vietnam  Academic Article
• Medical termination of pregnancy service delivery in the context of decentralization: Social and structural influences  Academic Article
• Mixing methodology, nursing theory and research design for a practice model of district nursing advocacy  Academic Article
• Modeling the Emergency Ambulance Pass-By of Small Rural Hospitals in Victoria, Australia  Academic Article
• Models of care for socially isolated older rural carers: barriers and implications.  Academic Article
• More than health: The added value of health services in remote Scotland and Australia  Academic Article
• Mounting a community-randomized trial: sample size, matching, selection, and randomization issues in PRISM  Academic Article
• Nepalese dental hygiene and dental students' career choice motivation and plans after graduation: a descriptive cross-sectional comparison  Academic Article
• Not sending the message: A low prevalence of strength-based exercise participation in rural and regional Central Queensland  Academic Article
• Nut allergy prevalence and differences between Asian-born children and Australian-born children of Asian descent: a state-wide survey of children at primary school entry in Victoria, Australia  Academic Article
• Nutritional impacts of a fruit and vegetable subsidy programme for disadvantaged Australian Aboriginal children  Academic Article
• On becoming a practitioner-researcher in remote northern Australia: Personal commitment and resources compensate for structural deterrents to research  Academic Article
• Organizational barriers associated with the implementation of national essential medicines policy: A cross-sectional study of township hospitals in China  Academic Article
• Organizational responsibility for age-friendly social participation: views of Australian rural community stakeholders  Academic Article
• Participation in rural community groups and links with psychological well-being and resilience: a cross sectional community based study  Academic Article
• Pattern and factors associated with utilization of dental services among older adults in rural Victoria  Academic Article
• Perceptions and attitudes in relation to reproductive tract infections including sexually transmitted infections in rural Vietnam: A qualitative study  Academic Article
• Physical activity behaviours of adults in the Greater Green Triangle region of rural Australia  Academic Article
• Physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviors of children from urban and rural areas of cyprus  Academic Article
• Physicians' experiences and views on the role of obstetric ultrasound in rural and urban Rwanda: a qualitative study  Academic Article
• Plasma glucose and insulin responses in young Papua New Guineans (aged 10–19 years)  Academic Article
• Predicting wellness among rural older Australians: a cross- sectional study.  Academic Article
• Pregnant women's perception on signs and symptoms during pregnancy and maternal health care in a rural low-resource setting  Academic Article
• Prenatal diagnosis for women aged 37 years and over: to have or not to have  Academic Article
• Prevalence of adolescent violence in the home and service system capacity in rural Victoria  Academic Article
• Prevalence of myopia in school children in greater Beijing: the Beijing Childhood Eye Study  Academic Article
• Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths in remote villages in East Kwaio, Solomon Islands.  Academic Article
• Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency among schoolchildren in Greece: the role of sex, degree of urbanisation and seasonality  Academic Article
• Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Control of Hypertension in Indonesian Adults Aged ≥40 Years: Findings from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS)  Academic Article
• Psychometric testing of the Family-Carer Diabetes Management Self-Efficacy Scale  Academic Article
• Public vs private administration of rural health insurance schemes: a comparative study in Zhejiang of China  Academic Article
• RURAL PEOPLE UTILISING CITY HOSPITALS: ISSUES FOR SERVICE PROVISION  Academic Article
• RURAL YOUTH: HIV/STD KNOWLEDGE LEVELS AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION  Academic Article
• Recent warnings of a rise in crystal methamphetamine (“ice”) use in rural and remote Indigenous Australian communities should be heeded  Letter
• Reduced prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance and no change in prevalence of diabetes despite increasing BMI among Aboriginal people from a group of remote homeland communities  Academic Article
• Reformulating masculinity: Traumatic brain injury and the gendered nature of care and domestic roles  Academic Article
• Relationships Between Learning Difficulties and Psychological Problems in Preadolescent Children From a Longitudinal Sample  Academic Article
• Reporting of non-prescribed medication usage in remote Australia: health-seeking habits in Port Headland  Academic Article
• Retention policies for allied health professionals in rural areas: a survey of private practitioners.  Academic Article
• Returning home: psychosocial care during the re-entry phase of cancer survivorship in rural Australia  Academic Article
• Rurability: Community support for rural families managing acquired brain injury  Academic Article
• Rural Adolescent Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drug Use: A Comparison of Students in Victoria, Australia, and Washington State, United States  Academic Article
• Rural Australian community pharmacists' views on complementary and alternative medicine: a pilot study  Academic Article
• Rural Health and Spiritual Care Development: A Review of Programs across Rural Victoria, Australia  Academic Article
• Rural LGBT Health: Introduction to a Dedicated Issue of the Journal of Homosexuality INTRODUCTION  Academic Article
• Rural information deprivation?  Academic Article
• Rural living and health-related quality of life in Australians with Parkinson's disease.  Academic Article
• Rural parents, teenagers and alcohol: what are parents thinking?  Academic Article
• Rural residency and prostate cancer specific mortality: Results from the Victorian Radical Prostatectomy Register  Academic Article
• Rural sports and recreational injuries in Australia: What do we know?  Academic Article
• Rural v metro: geographical differences in sports injury hospital admissions across Victoria  Comment
• Rural/urban differences in accounts of patients’ initial decisions to consult primary care  Academic Article
• Rurality, remoteness and the change process: evidence from a study of maternity services in the north of Scotland  Academic Article
• Salt substitution: a low-cost strategy for blood pressure control among rural Chinese. A randomized, controlled trial  Academic Article
• Scoping review of the exclusion and inclusion of rural newcomers in community participation.  Academic Article
• Scoping the context of programs and services for maintaining wellness of older people in rural areas of Indonesia  Academic Article
• Screening for postnatal depression: not a simple task  Academic Article
• Shadow Puppets and Neglected Diseases (2): a Qualitative Evaluation of a Health Promotion Performance in Rural Indonesia  Academic Article
• Shadow Puppets and Neglected Diseases: Evaluating a Health Promotion Performance in Rural Indonesia  Academic Article
• Social Support and Women Living With Breast Cancer in the South of Thailand  Academic Article
• Sport safety policies and practices in two rural Victorian communities  Academic Article
• Sport/leisure injury hospitalisation rates—Evidence for an excess burden in remote areas  Academic Article
• Status and management of hypertension in greece: Role of the adoption of a Mediterranean diet: The Attica study  Academic Article
• Stores Healthy Options Project in Remote Indigenous Communities (SHOP@RIC): A protocol of a randomised trial promoting healthy food and beverage purchases through price discounts and in-store nutrition education  Academic Article
• Syphilis and disadvantage in rural communities  Academic Article
• Telehealth in cystic fibrosis: a systematic review  Academic Article
• Telehealth. What does it offer for public health care?  Academic Article
• Temporal trends in overweight and obesity of children and adolescents from nine Provinces in China from 1991–2006  Academic Article
• The Association between Leisure-Time Physical Activities and Asthma Symptoms among 10- to 12-Year-Old Children: The Effect of Living Environment in the PANACEA Study  Academic Article
• The Panorama and Outcomes of Pregnancies Within a Well-Defined Population in Rural Vietnam 1999–2004  Academic Article
• The Role of Energy Balance in Successful Aging among Elderly Individuals: The Multinational MEDIS Study  Academic Article
• The association between alcohol outlet density and alcohol use among urban and regional Australian adolescents  Academic Article
• The association of levels of physical activity with metabolic syndrome in rural Australian adults  Academic Article
• The buck stops here: Midwives and maternity care in rural Scotland  Academic Article
• The diagnosis and treatment decisions of cancer patients in rural Western Australia  Academic Article
• The impact of different benefit packages of Medical Financial Assistance Scheme on health service utilization of poor population in Rural China  Academic Article
• The mental health benefits of relationship formalisation among lesbians and gay men in same-sex relationships  Academic Article
• The paradox of screening: Rural women's views on screening for postnatal depression  Academic Article
• The perinatal emotional health program – hope for isolated rural women.  Academic Article
• The quality of cardiovascular disease prevention in rural primary care  Academic Article
• The role of energy cost in food choices for an Aboriginal population in northern Australia  Academic Article
• The structure and organisation of home-based postnatal care in public hospitals in Victoria, Australia: A cross-sectional survey  Academic Article
• The tyranny of distance: maternity waiting homes and access to birthing facilities in rural Timor-Leste  Academic Article
• Toward the Development of a More Integrated Aged Care Assessment Process for Rural Older Australians: Practitioners’ Perspectives  Academic Article
• Towards equity and sustainability of rural and remote health services access: supporting social capital and integrated organisational and professional development  Academic Article
• Traumatic Brain Injury, Participation, and Rural Identity  Academic Article
• Trends in non-drinking among Australian adolescents  Academic Article
• Trusting technology: Women aged 40-49 years participating in screening for breast cancer-an exploratory study  Academic Article
• URBAN?RURAL DIFFERENCES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SCREEN-DETECTED INVASIVE BREAST CANCER AND DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU IN VICTORIA  Academic Article
• Urban environment adherence to the Mediterranean diet and prevalence of asthma symptoms among 10- to 12-year-old children: The Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Allergies in Children Examined in Athens study  Academic Article
• Urban versus rural populations' views of health care in Scotland  Academic Article
• Urban-rural disparity in utilization of preventive care services in China  Academic Article
• Use of the Bayer DCA 2000+ for the measurement of glycated haemoglobin in a remote Australian Aboriginal community  Academic Article
• What Happens to Shelter Dogs? Part 2. Comparing Three Melbourne Welfare Shelters for Nonhuman Animals  Academic Article
• What older people want: evidence from a study of remote Scottish communities.  Academic Article
• Which dimensions of access are most important when rural residents decide to visit a general practitioner for non-emergency care?  Academic Article
• Women's Health Australia: Recruitment for a National Longitudinal Cohort Study  Academic Article
• Women's views of postnatal care in the context of the increasing pressure on postnatal beds in Australia  Academic Article
• Women's work. Maintaining a healthy body weight  Academic Article
• Young mothers' lived experiences prior to becoming pregnant in rural Victoria: A phenomenological study  Academic Article
• Youth mental ill health and secondary school completion in Australia: time to act  Academic Article
• Yu Duan Practices as Embodying Tradition, Modernity and Social Change in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand  Academic Article
• ‘Sly grog’ and ‘homebrew’: a qualitative examination of illicit alcohol and some of its impacts on Indigenous communities with alcohol restrictions in regional and remote Queensland (Australia)  Academic Article
• ‘We’re completely back to normal, but I’d say it’s a new normal’: a qualitative exploration of adaptive functioning in rural families following a parental cancer diagnosis  Academic Article
• “I Come Because I Am Called”: Recruitment and Participation in Mammography Screening in Uppsala, Sweden  Academic Article