Rural and Remote Health
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Open-access, peer-reviewed journal providing an international evidence base to inform improvement in rural and remote health (free to read, no author charges). www.rrh.org.au
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25 years and 10,000 submissions for Rural and Remote Health! Thank you to our authors, readers, reviewers, editors and supporters! A message from Professor Sarah Larkins:
Implementation and initial outcomes of a breast cancer screening program in remote areas: in the western Amazon, Brazil by Ana Maria Negreiros, Thiago Silva, Anderson Teixeira, Igor Fecury, Edmundo C Mauad, Raphael Luiz Haikel Jr, André Carvalho and Lívia Loamí de Paula.
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Implementation and initial outcomes of a breast cancer screening program in remote areas: a case study in the western Amazon, Brazil
Published article 9357 Rural and Remote Health
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Implementation and initial outcomes of a breast cancer screening program in remote areas: in the western Amazon, Brazil by Ana Maria Negreiros, Thiago Silva, Anderson Teixeira, Igor Fecury, Edmundo C Mauad, Raphael Luiz Haikel Jr, André Carvalho and Lívia Loamí de Paula.
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Evaluating community-based suicide prevention initiatives in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review by Andreia Schineanu, Jodie Brabin, Suzanne McLaren, Clifford Lewis, Larissa Bamberry, Taneile Kitchingman, Jayne Lawrence, Rosemary Philips and Samantha Jakimowicz.
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Evaluating community-based suicide prevention initiatives in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review
Published article 9767 Rural and Remote Health
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November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Evaluating community-based suicide prevention initiatives in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review by Andreia Schineanu, Jodie Brabin, Suzanne McLaren, Clifford Lewis, Larissa Bamberry, Taneile Kitchingman, Jayne Lawrence, Rosemary Philips and Samantha Jakimowicz.
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25 years and 10,000 submissions for Rural and Remote Health! Thank you to our authors, readers, reviewers, editors and supporters! A message from Professor Sarah Larkins:
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
25 years and 10,000 submissions for Rural and Remote Health! Thank you to our authors, readers, reviewers, editors and supporters! A message from Professor Sarah Larkins:
New Original Research article in RRH: Sociodemographic disadvantage and low healthcare access as contributing factors to high maternal death in Papua, Indonesia: multilevel analysis of census population data by Danik Iga Prasiska, Suk-Yong Jang and Min Jin Ha.
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Sociodemographic disadvantage and low healthcare access as contributing factors to high maternal death in Papua, Indonesia: multilevel analysis of census population data
Published article 9349 Rural and Remote Health
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November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
New Original Research article in RRH: Sociodemographic disadvantage and low healthcare access as contributing factors to high maternal death in Papua, Indonesia: multilevel analysis of census population data by Danik Iga Prasiska, Suk-Yong Jang and Min Jin Ha.
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New Original Research article in RRH: Evaluation of ICT-based EMS implementation in medically underserved areas: usability, feasibility and impact by Eui-Jae Kim, So-Yeon Kong, Yun-Jeong Cha, Gwan-Jin Park, Young-Min Kim, Hyun-Seok Chai, Hoon Kim and Sang-Chul Kim
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Evaluation of ICT-based EMS implementation in medically underserved areas: usability, feasibility and impact
Published article 9975 Rural and Remote Health
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October 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
New Original Research article in RRH: Evaluation of ICT-based EMS implementation in medically underserved areas: usability, feasibility and impact by Eui-Jae Kim, So-Yeon Kong, Yun-Jeong Cha, Gwan-Jin Park, Young-Min Kim, Hyun-Seok Chai, Hoon Kim and Sang-Chul Kim
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New Review Article in RRH: Recruitment and retention of the allied health workforce in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review by Emma Brown, Beth Ould, Harry Brown, Luke Robinson and Ted Brown.
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Recruitment and retention of the allied health workforce in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review
Published article 9532 Rural and Remote Health
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October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
New Review Article in RRH: Recruitment and retention of the allied health workforce in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review by Emma Brown, Beth Ould, Harry Brown, Luke Robinson and Ted Brown.
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New Short Communication in RRH: Self-reported measures of preparedness of graduates of a new remote and rural graduate-entry medical program (ScotGEM) by Andrew O'Malley.
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Self-reported measures of preparedness of graduates of a new remote and rural graduate-entry medical program (ScotGEM)
Published article 9781 Rural and Remote Health
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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
New Short Communication in RRH: Self-reported measures of preparedness of graduates of a new remote and rural graduate-entry medical program (ScotGEM) by Andrew O'Malley.
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Evaluating the service readiness of a Paraguay public healthcare center for the primary healthcare system using the WHO SARA tool by Ji Eon Kim, Yanghee Kang, Min Ah Chung, Daehwan Kim, Baek Jo, Renato Ronnebeck, Adriana Amarilla Vallejo and Eun Woo Nam
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Evaluating the service readiness of a Paraguay public healthcare center for the primary healthcare system using the WHO SARA tool
Published article 8701 Rural and Remote Health
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October 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Evaluating the service readiness of a Paraguay public healthcare center for the primary healthcare system using the WHO SARA tool by Ji Eon Kim, Yanghee Kang, Min Ah Chung, Daehwan Kim, Baek Jo, Renato Ronnebeck, Adriana Amarilla Vallejo and Eun Woo Nam
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New Original Research article in RRH: Awareness of access to health care: a significant need of the Narikuravar people, India by Hepsibah Sharmil, Cherrie Galletly, Janet Kelly, Ted Wilkes, Anna George, Mariyamol Jaison, K Karthiga, K Myvizhi and Annamalai K.
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Awareness of access to health care: a significant need of the Narikuravar people, India
Published article 9870 Rural and Remote Health
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October 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
New Original Research article in RRH: Awareness of access to health care: a significant need of the Narikuravar people, India by Hepsibah Sharmil, Cherrie Galletly, Janet Kelly, Ted Wilkes, Anna George, Mariyamol Jaison, K Karthiga, K Myvizhi and Annamalai K.
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‘We feel better here now’: traditional practices, sanitation, and dialog with the biomedical system to restore spiritual harmony in an Indigenous community in Colombia by Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Jaramillo Mecha-Chamorro and Eduardo Marulanda-López.
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‘We feel better here now’: traditional practices, sanitation, and dialog with the biomedical system to restore spiritual harmony in an Indigenous community in Colombia
Published article 9126 Rural and Remote Health
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October 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
‘We feel better here now’: traditional practices, sanitation, and dialog with the biomedical system to restore spiritual harmony in an Indigenous community in Colombia by Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Jaramillo Mecha-Chamorro and Eduardo Marulanda-López.
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Factors associated with quality of life for people in a rural area of Peru: importance of family health and socioeconomic aspects by Gonzalo Larico Ayma, Janett Chaves Sosa, Edda E Newball-Noriega and Salomon Huancahuire-Vega.
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Factors associated with quality of life for people in a rural area of Peru: importance of family health and socioeconomic aspects
Published article 9313 Rural and Remote Health
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October 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Factors associated with quality of life for people in a rural area of Peru: importance of family health and socioeconomic aspects by Gonzalo Larico Ayma, Janett Chaves Sosa, Edda E Newball-Noriega and Salomon Huancahuire-Vega.
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Urban–rural disparities in maternal mortality between 2014 and 2021 in Colombia by Jorge Salazar Flórez, Carlos Arias-Castro, Gino Montenegro Martínez, Bibiana Castro Montoya, Karina Quintero Zea and Diego Betancur Usma.
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Urban–rural disparities in maternal mortality between 2014 and 2021 in Colombia
Published article 9032 Rural and Remote Health
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October 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Urban–rural disparities in maternal mortality between 2014 and 2021 in Colombia by Jorge Salazar Flórez, Carlos Arias-Castro, Gino Montenegro Martínez, Bibiana Castro Montoya, Karina Quintero Zea and Diego Betancur Usma.
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New OR article in RRH: ‘We feel better here now’: traditional practices, sanitation, and dialog with the biomedical system to restore spiritual harmony in an Indigenous community in Colombia by Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Jaramillo Mecha-Chamorro and Eduardo Marulanda-López.
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‘We feel better here now’: traditional practices, sanitation, and dialog with the biomedical system to restore spiritual harmony in an Indigenous community in Colombia
Published article 9126 Rural and Remote Health
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October 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
New OR article in RRH: ‘We feel better here now’: traditional practices, sanitation, and dialog with the biomedical system to restore spiritual harmony in an Indigenous community in Colombia by Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Jaramillo Mecha-Chamorro and Eduardo Marulanda-López.
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New Review article in RRH: Pleasure and suffering in the rural nurse’s work process: a scoping review by Bruno Neves da Silva, Cícera Renata Silva, Valéria da Silva, Sérgio da Silva and Erika Simone Pinto.
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Pleasure and suffering in the rural nurse’s work process: a scoping review
Published article 9181 Rural and Remote Health
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October 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
New Review article in RRH: Pleasure and suffering in the rural nurse’s work process: a scoping review by Bruno Neves da Silva, Cícera Renata Silva, Valéria da Silva, Sérgio da Silva and Erika Simone Pinto.
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Does physician recruitment impact access and health of rural residents? Evidence from the 2014 recruitment of 6000 physicians in Bangladesh by Redwan BinAbdulBaten, Shahidul Islam, Azharul Islam and Ahmed Hossain.
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Does physician recruitment impact access and health of rural residents? Evidence from the 2014 recruitment of 6000 physicians in Bangladesh
Published article 9715 Rural and Remote Health
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October 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Does physician recruitment impact access and health of rural residents? Evidence from the 2014 recruitment of 6000 physicians in Bangladesh by Redwan BinAbdulBaten, Shahidul Islam, Azharul Islam and Ahmed Hossain.
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Letter to the Editor in RRH: Clinical courage in rural Asia: a Philippine perspective by Alvenio G Mozol Jr and Jesus Roland M Gatpolintan.
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Clinical courage in rural Asia: a Philippine perspective
Published article 10093 Rural and Remote Health
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October 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Letter to the Editor in RRH: Clinical courage in rural Asia: a Philippine perspective by Alvenio G Mozol Jr and Jesus Roland M Gatpolintan.
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Influences on medical students’ clinical school preferences: outcomes from a Rural Clinical School immersion program in Australia by Sue Garner, Jessica Beattie, Brendan Condon and Lara Fuller.
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Influences on medical students’ clinical school preferences: outcomes from a Rural Clinical School immersion program in Australia
Published article 9474 Rural and Remote Health
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October 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Influences on medical students’ clinical school preferences: outcomes from a Rural Clinical School immersion program in Australia by Sue Garner, Jessica Beattie, Brendan Condon and Lara Fuller.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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New Original Research article in RRH: The Australian Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway: contextual factors for success by Alison Dymmott, Stacey George, Narelle Campbell, Joanne Lawson and Chris Brebner.
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The Australian Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway: contextual factors for success
Published article 9331 Rural and Remote Health
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September 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New Original Research article in RRH: The Australian Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway: contextual factors for success by Alison Dymmott, Stacey George, Narelle Campbell, Joanne Lawson and Chris Brebner.
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New Original Research paper in RRH: Employers’ perspectives on recruiting and retaining pharmacists in regional and rural Victoria, Australia by Zikai He and Lisa Bourke.
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Employers’ perspectives on recruiting and retaining pharmacists in regional and rural Victoria, Australia
Published article 9469 Rural and Remote Health
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September 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New Original Research paper in RRH: Employers’ perspectives on recruiting and retaining pharmacists in regional and rural Victoria, Australia by Zikai He and Lisa Bourke.
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New Original Research article in RRH: Development of the Attitude Scale Towards Rural Health Services: a study with university health students in Türkiye by Mustafa Filiz and Selman Yakut.
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Development of the Attitude Scale Towards Rural Health Services: a study with university health students in Türkiye
Published article 9359 Rural and Remote Health
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September 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
New Original Research article in RRH: Development of the Attitude Scale Towards Rural Health Services: a study with university health students in Türkiye by Mustafa Filiz and Selman Yakut.
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New Original Research article in RRH: ‘Get away from it all’ or ‘Too good to be true?’: a qualitative exploration of job advertisements for remote and rural posts
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‘Get away from it all’ or ‘Too good to be true?’: a qualitative exploration of job advertisements for remote and rural posts
Published article 9498 Rural and Remote Health
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September 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
New Original Research article in RRH: ‘Get away from it all’ or ‘Too good to be true?’: a qualitative exploration of job advertisements for remote and rural posts
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New Original Research article in RRH: The epidemiology of oro-facial injuries in rural and metropolitan Queensland, Australia by Sai Pabbati, Dileep Sharma and Peter Thomson.
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The epidemiology of oro-facial injuries in rural and metropolitan Queensland, Australia
Published article 9439 Rural and Remote Health
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September 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New Original Research article in RRH: The epidemiology of oro-facial injuries in rural and metropolitan Queensland, Australia by Sai Pabbati, Dileep Sharma and Peter Thomson.
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New Letter to the Editor in RRH: Ultrasonography in primary care by Dimitrios Athanasopoulos and Dimitrios Manifavas.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
New Letter to the Editor in RRH: Ultrasonography in primary care by Dimitrios Athanasopoulos and Dimitrios Manifavas.
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New Review Article in RRH: Events and experiences shaping a sense of belonging in rural and remote healthcare placements: a scoping review by Jessica Elliott, Liz Ryan, Leah East and Daniel Terry.
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Events and experiences shaping a sense of belonging in rural and remote healthcare placements: a scoping review
Published article 9356 Rural and Remote Health
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September 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
New Review Article in RRH: Events and experiences shaping a sense of belonging in rural and remote healthcare placements: a scoping review by Jessica Elliott, Liz Ryan, Leah East and Daniel Terry.
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