Several initiatives have addressed patient safety by enabling electronic voluntary reporting of adverse events within academic medical centres in urban settings. Such initiatives are lacking in the rural context, and it remains unknown whether the same challenges and solutions apply to rural hospitals. The purpose of this study is to provide insight into the organisational culture and level of ...

Rural Tourism exhorts tourists to spend quality time in a nuanced fashion by engaging them different ethnic, indigenous and aesthetic practices rural areas. The stresses generating from urban life the detachment distance natural environment occasionally provoke urbanites escape their monoculture city life. In such case, locations seem be an ideal place release stress also provide opportunity re...

INTRODUCTION Australia is a culturally diverse nation due to migrants from a wide variety of countries creating a multicultural society. The health professions are highly valued by the younger generation of overseas-born migrants who have acculturated into Australian society; many have chosen health care as their profession in Australia. However, most migrants settle in metropolitan areas and y...

In my 15th and final year as JRRE editor, I identify methodological and substantive shortcomings in the rural education research literature and, in turn, suggest strategies for improvement. I structure my observations around the following considerations: describing the rural context of research, making the rural argument, framing the research question, drawing on other disciplines, synthesizing...

Auxiliary health workers, if their duties are strictly defined and appropriately supervised, can efficiently extend the services of professionals to large and isolated populations. Their use is not limited to rural populations, but it is the rural context that most dramatically highlights the auxiliaries’ possibilities for service. This article reports the control of tetanus in one rural area, ...