remote communities
An innovative Australian outreach model of diabetic retinopathy screening in remote communities
... in remote populations with minimal to no access to optometry and ophthalmology services ...in remote communities has become more comprehensive, increasing from ...and remote DR screening ...
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Obesity, albuminuria, and gamma-glutamyl transferase predict incidence of hypertension in indigenous Australians in rural and remote communities in northern Australia
... In this cohort of indigenous Australians living in rural and remote communities in North Queensland, we found the standardized hypertension incidence of 51.9 per 1000 per- son-years with 29.8 in females and ...
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Transforming Health Care in Remote Communities: report on an international conference
... Although the Conference focused on primary health care, it also recognized the importance of going “up- stream” in understanding what influences the health of remote communities (Fig. 1). Chatwood 7 ...
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Exploring the feasibility of eHealth solutions to decrease delays in maternal healthcare in remote communities of Ghana
... Ghana is one of the countries that has adopted the draft 2030 agenda. This West African country has a population of 27 million (estimated in 2015). Ghana is divided into ten administrative regions, 138 districts, and 58 ...
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The training and employment challenge of remote communities: Is collaboration the solution?
... in remote communities recent analysis conducted by the CRC for Remote Economic Participation shows that in very remote Australia, there are more than enough low-skilled jobs to go around for ...
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Otitis media in young Aboriginal children from remote communities in Northern and Central Australia: a cross-sectional survey
... of remote communities in Northern and Central ...from remote communities in Northern and Central Australia with severe otitis media by health region (error bars represent 95% confidence ...
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Low-emission and sustainable power supply for remote communities
... in remote locations, so distributed generation technologies using natural resources available at the locations would be technically possible and environmentally acceptable to bring electricity to these ...
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An appropriate technology solar water heater for remote communities
... subsequent industrial design phase yielded the concepts for the second prototypes. The collectors proposed utilise the same principles, i.e. the LDPE tubing and the HDPE Solar Batts. T[r] ...
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The development of the Remote Area Hygiene Facility for remote communities - appropriate technology?
... The Remote Area Hygiene Facility (RAHF) is an attempt at an ablution block design and essentially comprises laundry, toilet and shower.. The development of this a[r] ...
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A solar water heater for remote communities
... developed at the Centre for Appropriate Technology (Alice Springs) is used in conjunction with the solar heater to assure a year round supply of hot water. Testi[r] ...
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Indigenous unemployment in rural and regional Western Australia: Is there a way out?
... geographically remote settlements, which are often too small to facilitate industry, or to supply adequate primary or secondary ...sustainable communities in regional ...learning communities, where ...
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Crime, justice and Indigenous people
... In remote communities, a higher proportion of Indigenous people do not consume alcohol (46 per cent), than other non-remote Indigenous people (25 per cent) or non- Indigenous people more generally ...
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Cost implications of hard water on health hardware in remote Indigenous communities in the Central Desert region of Australia
... on Remote Indigenous Housing, is in ...in remote communities and upgrades to a further 4,800 houses (Australian Government, ...the communities to deliver improved housing ...for ...
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Remote health workforce turnover and retention: what are the policy and practice priorities?
... in remote communities in the Northern Territory (NT) ...to remote area health service deliv- ery, particularly in remote Indigenous communities, we also undertook a narrative review of ...
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Alcohol restrictions and drink driving in remote Indigenous communities in Queensland, Australia
... Indigenous communities have been ...native communities that had localised alcohol prohibition had lower age-adjusted rates for all serious injuries from assaults and motor vehicle collisions ...from ...
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Communicable diseases in rural and remote Australia: the need for improved understanding and action
... and remote communities of Australia, particularly those including Aboriginal people, experience greater morbidity and mortality across a range of health outcomes compared to urban ...and remote ...
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Up close and real: living and learning in a remote community builds students’ cultural capabilities and understanding of health disparities
... many remote community ...in remote settings, for historical and cultural rea- sons, Aboriginal Australians represent a greater propor- tion of the population with increasing remoteness ...in remote ...
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Translation of tobacco policy into practice in disadvantaged and marginalized subpopulations: a study of challenges and opportunities in remote Australian Indigenous communities
... in remote communities where prevalence rates are the highest in the country, are slow to ...few remote community-based tobacco work- ers have limited capacity to provide quit ...with ...
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Policies for social inclusion in transportation: An introduction to the special issue
... and remote communities, accessibility, exclusion and participation, social impact and distributional analysis of transport systems and developing new governance and policy mechanisms within the sector to ...
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Vol 22, No 3 (2018)
... An important aim of the project was to test HoPE‘s PHE ―model‖ in select locales, complemented by strong advocacy efforts at multiple levels, as the basis for basin-wide scale- up. To that end, the project incorporated ...
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