10.25905/5c9080b0ae69e
Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU)
Public Health Information Development Unit
(PHIDU)
Regional health: trends in inequalities in health and wellbeing by remoteness, for Victoria
Torrens University Australia
2019
Regional Health
Health inequalities
Rural health
Public health
Health Care
2019-03-19 05:39:58
Journal contribution
https://torrens.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Regional_health_trends_in_inequalities_in_health_and_wellbeing_by_remoteness_for_Victoria/7861007
<p>Urban and rural differences in service distribution, access,
and health outcomes are challenges in many countries, with outcome indicators
generally worse in rural and remote regions. In Australia, such differences or
inequalities between ‘the city and the bush’ have been evident for many
decades. As health services have been
centralised in regional and metropolitan centres, the need to fund and deliver
specific rural services to combat locational disadvantage has increased,
resulting in a number of inventive rural outreach and mobile services,
multipurpose centres with pooled funding, transport arrangements, training and
incentives for rural health practitioners, and e-health services such as
telemedicine.1 However, despite the introduction of these initiatives, the
health needs of many Australian communities are still not fully met, and
substantial differences in health outcomes for rural and remote populations
remain. The paper was prepared from data supplied by State, Territory and
Commonwealth Government agencies and published by PHIDU over a number of years
in the Social Health Atlases. It will be updated from time to time, as new data
become available.</p>