Sentences with phrase «national rural health»

(The list of agencies signed up to the campaign include: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Congress of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Nurses Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory Australian Indigenous Doctors Association Amnesty International Australia Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Australian Council of Social Service Australian Council for International Development Australian General Practice Network Australian Nursing Federation Australian Red Cross Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Caritas Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Diplomacy Training Program Fred Hollows Foundation Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth Indigenous Law Centre Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council National Association of Community Legal Centres National Children's and Youth Law Centre National Rural Health Alliance Oxfam Australia Professor Daniel Tarantola, Chair of Health and Human Rights, University of New South Public Health Association of Australia Quaker Services Australia Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Rural Doctors Association of Australia Save the Children Australia Telethon Institute for Child Health Research UNICEF Australia Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre)

[3] A further non-exhaustive list of organisations who have publicly expressed support for the campaign includes: Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory; Amnesty International Australia; Australian Catholic Bishops» Social Justice Committee; Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine; Australian Council of Social Services; Australian Council for International Development; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; Australian Nursing Federation; Australian Red Cross; Caritas Australia; Clinical Nurse Consultants Association of NSW; Diplomacy Training Program, University of New South Wales; Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University; Human Rights Law Resource Centre; Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth; Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales; Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney; Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council; National Association of Community Legal Centres; National Children's and Youth Law Centre; National Rural Health Alliance; Public Health Association of Australia; Quaker Services Australia; Rural Doctors Association of Australia; Save the Children Australia; Sax Institute; Sisters of Mercy Aboriginal Network NSW; Sisters of Mercy Justice Network Asia Pacific; UNICEF Australia; and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.

The National Rural Health Association Provides information on a nonprofit membership organization that hosts conferences and provides publications, including the professional quarterly publication, Journal of Rural Health, and the quarterly online human interest magazine, Rural Roads.

Marge Overs, a journalist who is covering the National Rural Health Conference for Croakey this week, says one of the outstanding presentations has been an explanation of the NDIS from Dougi... Read more

The meeting will feature presentations from organisations including the National Blood Authority and the National Rural Health Student Network.

Across this broad agenda Dr Gillespie can call on support and advice from the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA).

The National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) has recently completed a study of food security, funded by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC)(publication forthcoming through RIRDC and the NRHA).

In a longer article below Gregory, who recently retired after 23 years of heading up the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA), expands on this concept with an even dozen agenda items for the Minister, including a helpful guide to his key collaborators for success: his fellow ministers, along with those work and live in rural Australia.

Jennifer Doggett writes: The National Rural Health Alliance's 6th Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium, which kicks off in Canberra tomorrow, will bring together established rural he... Read more

Like many others in the audience last Monday at the National Rural Health Conference, I was impressed with Dr Prince's ambitions to undertake such a bold project in eradicating scabies amongst remote communities, and throughout the project period hope to work with him and his team to support achieving the desired outcomes.

This is the second story in a Croakey mini-series on Fixing Rural and Remote Health, following the launch of the National Rural Health Alliance's five key priorities for «Fixing Rural and Re... Read more

One such opportunity open to people from all sectors of the health system is the upcoming National Rural Health Conference (NRHC15), hosted by the National Rural Health Alliance.

The outstanding work of Karen West, an Aboriginal health worker from Mornington Island, has been honoured at the National Rural Health Conference, reports Marge Overs.

In 2015, Dr Lynore Geia presented to the 13th National Rural Health Conference in Darwin about #IHMayDay14, examining its processes and outcomes through a decolonising lens.

Thanks to the National Rural Health Alliance for the link to the Budget lock up presentation by Health Minister Greg Hunt detailing his first, second and third waves of reform, which make it clear why there is disappointment on Indigenous health funding, particularly given the poor Close the Gap report card earlier this year, and on prevention.

In its statement, the National Rural Health Alliance says rural health, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, «gets almost no attention in the Budget», which it describes as a «glaring omission».

In this piece for Croakey, former National Rural Health Alliance chief Gordon Gregory details the state of play.

More than a talk-fest Like previous National Rural Health Conferences, this year's event is more than just a talk-fest.

As the photos below illustrate, all roads lead to Darwin this month for the 13th National Rural Health Conference, which Jennifer Doggett will be attending and covering for the Croakey Conference Reporting Service.

How many National Rural Health Conferences have you attended (and when / where)?

This week, Dr Tim Kelly covered the National Rural Health Conference in Cairns — #ruralhealthconf.

As National Rural Health Alliance CEO Gordon Gregory has written in Croakey, the health policy debate since the last election has been dominated by the debate over the proposed $ 5 GP co-payment.

This is the first article in a Croakey mini series on rural and remote health, following the launch this week at the National Press Club of the National Rural Health Alliance's five ke... Read more

Health professionals, managers, policy makers, researchers and others interested in obtaining more information about the National Rural Health Conference can find a detailed program and registration facilities on the conference website www.ruralhealth.org.au/13nrhc / homepage

Dr Geia is to present on #IHMayDay (2014) at the National Rural Health Conference in Darwin on May 27, as an example of decolonising methodologies in action.

Some of the big challenges facing the country's 31 primary health networks (PHNs), established in July 2015 by the Coalition Government to replace the 61 Medicare Locals created under the previous Labor Government, were highlighted at the recent National Rural Health Conference in Cairns.

This is the first article in a Croakey mini series on rural and remote health, following the launch this week at the National Press Club of the National Rural Health Alliance's five key priorities for «Fixing Rural and Remote Health» (see the full statement below).

Given that King committed at the Cairns conference to supporting a National Rural Health Strategy, it seems likely that this topic will also feature prominently at the 15th National Rural Health Conference.

This is the final instalment of Croakey Conference News Service coverage of the recent National Rural Health Conference in Cairns.

The appointment of the first National Rural Health Commissioner later in 2017 is being anticipated by the rural health sector.

This is the fourth story in a Croakey mini-series on Fixing Rural and Remote Health, following the launch of the National Rural Health Alliance's five key priorities for «Fixing Rural and Remote Health».

However, the PHN's chair, Adjunct Associate Professor Trent Twomey, presented a series of maps at the National Rural Health Conference that powerfully illustrated a lack of convergence in governance between the various domains relevant to SDOH action.

Former Chairs of the National Rural Health Alliance

Perhaps the next National Rural Health Conference, in Hobart in 2019, will incorporate a meaningful focus on climate change — not least because we will soon have our first Framework for a National Strategy on Climate, Health and Well - being, thanks to work led by the Climate and Health Alliance.

Overview of mental health announcements With reaction from Mental Health Council of Australia, Australian General Practice Network, AMA, Mental Health Connect blog, National Rural Health Alliance

The National Rural Health Alliance argues that Medicare Locals, like the local hospital networks, should be structured around local communities of interest.

The Alliance's growth in size and strength, and its track record in influencing national rural health policy, is largely due to Gordon's interpersonal and management skills and professional networks.

It was also surprising to discover (thanks to a Sharing Shed recommendation) that the National Rural Health Alliance does not have a formal position paper on climate change and rural health.

The National Rural Health Alliance also welcomed some rural health initiatives, including «the modest commitments made on rural health in the 2013 Election campaign» such as funding for additional GP consultation rooms for supervising registrars and medical students in rural and remote locations, and a small investment in scholarships for nursing and allied health.

In that year, Gordon became the inaugural Executive Director of the National Rural Health Alliance.

In his presentation to the 12th National Rural Health Conference in Adelaide yesterday, Dr Calma gave an overview of the program's work, and rebuffed Federal Opposition criticisms.

The need for a new National Rural Health Strategy and Plan was a strong message from the conference.

Among the research needs identified by the conference, it was noted that a national Rural Health Excellence Network modelled on Creative Commons is necessary for the dissemination and application of examples of effective practice, quality research and timely data to inform service planning, policy development and further research.

At the recent National Rural Health Conference in Cairns, the collective strength of the rural and remote health sector was evident.

The last iteration of a National Rural Health Plan was developed in 2011 but is now no longer in use.

Note: This piece originally appeared on the website of the National Rural Health Alliance www.ruralhealth.org.au

CEO of the National Rural Health Alliance, Mr David Butt, said the NRHA shared SARRAH's concerns about the timing of the Health Workforce Scholarship Program's commencement.

The Executive Director of the National Rural Health Alliance, Gordon Gregory, offered five suggestions.

This was one of the strong themes from compelling presentations to the Caring for Country Kids Conference, which was jointly organised by Children's Healthcare Australasia (CHA) and the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA), and held recently in Alice Springs.

The National Rural Health Alliance acknowledges that climate change poses a growing risk to the health and wellbeing of people living in regional, rural and remote communities, through more frequent severe weather events, longer droughts and changes in rainfall patterns.