10.25905/5c917027cac04
Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU)
Public Health Information Development Unit
(PHIDU)
Regional health: trends in inequalities in health and wellbeing by remoteness, for Queensland
Torrens University Australia
2019
Public Health data
Rural health
Socio-Economic Status
Health Care
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
2019-03-19 22:41:41
Journal contribution
https://torrens.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Regional_health_trends_in_inequalities_in_health_and_wellbeing_by_remoteness_for_Queensland/7865228
<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. 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><p><br></p><p>Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU). (2017). <i>Regional health: trends in inequalities in health and wellbeing by remoteness, for Queensland</i><br></p>