Objectives: Ensuring nationwide access to medical care challenges health systems
worldwide. Rural exposure during undergraduate medical training is promising as a means …

The allied health workforce is one of the largest workforces in the health industry. It has a
critical role in cost-effective, preventative health care, but it is poorly accessible in rural areas …

Introduction: Very little is known about the long term workforce outcomes, or factors relating
to these outcomes, for nursing and allied health rural placement programs. The positive …

Introduction The maldistribution of health care workers between metropolitan, rural or
remote areas is globally recognised. Allied health professional's workplace location choice …

Background The ability of the physiotherapy workforce to meet the growing demand in the
Australian community is uncertain, despite increasing tertiary students and numbers of …

Objective The aim of the present study was to identify areas where allied health assistants
(AHAs) are not working to their full scope of practice in order to improve the effectiveness of …

The future allied health workforce needs to be flexible to meet the needs of an ageing
population with increasing chronic health care needs and geographically dispersed …

Rural social workers face unique challenges and opportunities as they seek to address the
needs of rural Americans. Using social media, rural social workers in the US were recruited …

Rural agencies have unique challenges related to recruitment and retention of social
workers. A systematic literature review was conducted to examine job satisfaction, burnout …

Background The purpose of this study was to estimate the gap between the available and
the ideal supply of human resources (physicians, nurses, and health promoters) to deliver …