Purpose: Throughout the world, people with a disability who live in rural and remote areas
experience difficulty accessing a range of community-based services including speech …

Background. Optimising retention of rural and remote primary healthcare (PHC) workers
requires workforce planners to understand what constitutes a reasonable length of …

There is a global movement for people with a disability towards person‐centred practices
with opportunities for self‐determination and choice. Person‐centred approaches may …

Background The patterns of health service use by rural and remote residents are poorly
understood and under-represented in national surveys. This paper examines professional …

Background Policy initiatives to improve retention of the rural health workforce have relied
primarily on evidence for rural doctors, most of whom practice under a private business …

Objective To describe the personality (temperament and character traits) of remote
Australian allied health professionals (AHPs). Recent research shows that health …

Background/aim Private providers of M edicare funded services are an integral part of the A
ustralian primary health‐care system. Evidence on private occupational therapy practice in …

Background There are few publications describing what optometrists like about clinical work.
The purpose of this paper is to explore what optometrists in practice find satisfying with their …

This study sought to characterise the allied health professional (AHP) workforce of the
Northern Territory (NT), Australia, in order to understand the influence of student supervision …

Background and objective: To evaluate the impact of a chronic lung disease management
training programme, Breathe Easy Walk Easy (BEWE), for rural and remote health‐care …