Tag: rural health
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Why it’s time to rethink oral health in Australia
Alexandra Jones For most of my 30 years in dentistry, I’ve spent my time helping people one mouth at a time. I’ve been a clinician, a researcher, an academic, and a dentist in metropolitan areas and across regional and remote Australia. Throughout this time, the more I saw of Australia’s…
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City students learn about human and animal health in remote communities
Dr Jessica Hoopes, Dr Bonny Cumming, Dr John Hunter and Prof Michelle Power Undergraduate students from a university in northwestern Sydney are learning about human and animal health in remote and rural communities across northern and central Australia. The Macquarie University students have been studying One Health concepts – which…
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Rural Health Mythbusters
Author’s note [1] Kristen Glenister, Claire Quilliam, Olivia Mitchell, Lucinda Aberdeen, Carol Reid, Brahmaputra Marjadi. In Australia, approximately one third of people live outside of major cities, that is, in rural or remote locations. ‘Rural health’ emerged as a recognized field in the 1990s and focusses on inequities in health…
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New report justifies long overdue safety measures for quad bikes in Australia
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA It’s been another shocking summer for drownings across Australia. Royal Life Saving Australia tallied 79 drowning deaths (as of 31 January 2022), compared to 69 at this time last year. While the media focuses on drowning deaths every summer, other high-risk activities largely go unnoticed. A…
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Bee Aware: The critters that send us to the hospital – and the morgue
Terry Slevin There’s a kind of perverse pride I (and I suspect many) Australians harbour about growing up in a country which is home to 20 of the 25 most venomous snakes on the planet, including ALL of the top 10! Beyond snakes, we ‘boast’ spiders, jellyfish, flying and crawling…