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Exploring adaptive capacity to arid heat in remote First Nations communities in Central Australia - Scientific Reports
Abstract Extreme heat is associated with increased mortality and high health service demands. Despite a substantial body of heat-health research in Australia, there is limited evidence on hot weather-specific impacts on First Nations people living in remote communities.
The rise of direct‐to‐consumer telemedicine services in Australia: implications for primary care and future research
Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 285-285. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52399 Published online: 2 September 2024 To the Editor: In the 16 October 2023 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, Foo and colleagues1 described the exponential rise of direct‐to‐consumer (DTC) telemedicine services operating outside of Medicare and listed a sample of almost 80 services.
Addressing the GP vocational training crisis in remote Australia: Lessons from the Northern Territory
What is already known on this subject? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in remote Australia experience higher prevalence of chronic health conditions and therefore have a higher need for comprehensive primary health care than other Australians. Precipitous declines in GP vocational training enrolments in the Northern Territory have been observed since 2016.
First Nations people in the NT receive just 16% of the Medicare funding of an average Australian
Medicare, Australia’s universal health insurance scheme, provides financial protection against the cost of medical bills, and makes public hospital care available without any charge to the patient. For the large majority of Australians in urban settings, it is a brilliant system – providing subsidised access to care. But subsidised access is only useful for those who have access. If there is no doctor nearby, there is nothing to subsidise.
Remoteness, models of primary care and inequity: Medicare under-expenditure in the Northern Territory
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access) Previous Next Online Early Yuejen Zhao A B , John Wakerman B , Xiaohua Zhang A , Jo Wright A , Maja VanBruggen A , Rus Nasir A , Stephen Duckett C and Paul Burgess A * + Author Affiliations - Author Affiliations A Department of Health, Manunda Place, 38 Cavenagh Street, Darwin, NT 0811, Australia. B Menzies School of Health Research, NT, Australia. C Grattan Institute, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
In the wake of devastation and disaster, a letter to the Prime Minister
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was first published on January 15, 2020 Prominent rural health academic Professor John Wakerman and his family were among those evacuated from the devastating fires on the south coast of NSW earlier this month.
Remote health workforce turnover and retention: what are the policy and practice priorities?
Abstract Background Residents of remote communities in Australia and other geographically large countries have comparatively poorer access to high-quality primary health care.
“Better health in the bush”: why we urgently need a national rural and remote health strategy
Advertisement John Wakerman and John S Humphreys Med J Aust 2019; 210 (5): . || doi: 10.5694/mja2.50041 Published online: 25 February 2019 What are the problems in rural health service delivery and what can we do about them? For decades, the Australian Government has been wrestling with how to “fix the rural health problem”.
Sustainable workforce and sustainable health systems for rural and remote Australia
Advertisement John Wakerman and John S Humphreys Med J Aust 2013; 199 (5): S14-S17.
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