OBJECTIVE To describe the geographical mobility of general practitioners in Australia, both within rural areas and between rural and metropolitan areas. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Annual panel survey of GPs between 2008 and 2012. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Work location, categorised by a typology based on geographical location and community size; frequency of mobility (change of location category);...

BACKGROUND Rural and remote areas of Australia are facing serious health workforce shortages. While a number of schemes have been developed to improve recruitment to and retention of the rural health workforce, they will be effective only if appropriately targeted. This study examines the factors that most encourage students attending rural clinical placements to work in rural Australia, and th...

INTRODUCTION Lesotho was among the first countries to adopt decentralization of care from hospitals to nurse-led health centres (HCs) to scale up the provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART). We compared outcomes between patients who started ART at HCs and hospitals in two rural catchment areas in Lesotho. METHODS The two catchment areas comprise two hospitals and 12 HCs. Patients ≥16 years ...

INTRODUCTION Data from the Option B+ prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program in Malawi show considerable variation between health facilities in retention on antiretroviral therapy (ART). In a programmatic setting, we studied whether the "model of care," based on the degree of integration of antenatal care (ANC), HIV testing and counselling (HTC) and ART service provision-infl...

Ihave been a female physician in “rural” general practice for 24 years. My husband is a rural doctor, as was my father. I have seen rural medicine before and after medicare, in the east and in the west, by sea and by mountains, in depressed and in prosperous areas, and in communities supported by fishing, farming and forestry. As the first female physician in 2 communities and, for most of the ...

This paper explores a little understood aspect of education labour markets, the tendency for teachers to simultaneously engage in both white-collar side-hustle and blue-collar or land-based entrepreneurial activities. The papers argues that teacher’s engagement multiple activities such as moonlighting agriculture rural community enhances their income this helps compensate wage differentials wit...

BACKGROUND The 'Doctors to the Barrios' (DTTB) Program was launched in 1993 in response to the shortage of doctors in remote communities in the Philippines. While the Program has attracted physicians to work in such areas for the prescribed 2-year period, ongoing monitoring shows that very few chose to remain there for longer and be absorbed by their Local Government Unit (LGU). This assessment...