Australian Centre for International &
Tropical Health & Health Nutrition
Although not solely dealing with Indigenous
health, there is still quite a bit of
information available on this website. They
provide information about education,
particularly University courses in
Indigenous health, and also about their
current research projects.
Australian College of Rural and Remote
Medicine
The website provides current information
specifically for rural doctors. It features
a calendar of events, directory to relevant
organisations, links to other rural medical
pages and articles by various authors on
topics such as CME and computer education.
Australian Indigenous Health Promotion
Network (AIHPN)
The Network is dedicated to improving the
health of Indigenous Australians through
education, professional development,
mobilisation and advocacy. It is an
organisation controlled by its members and
is comprised of both Indigenous and non
Indigenous health professionals.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
This website provides an extensive amount of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
information, including important cultural
information as well. There is on-line
information and a vast amount of links to
additional websites, publications or
articles.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies
mission: "To provide leadership and
excellence in undertaking, promoting and
facilitating high-quality research in
Australian Indigenous studies." through
conducting and disseminating research,
providing grant opportunities and
facilitating seminars and conferences.
Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN)
ARHEN is a national communication and
coordination body for all University
Departments of Rural Health (UDRH) in
Australia.
British Columbia Rural and Remote Health
Research Network
The vision of the BC Rural and Remote Health
Research Network is to create a supportive
infrastructure to facilitate the
investigation of issues relevant to the
health of rural and remote communities from
population, health services, clinical and
biomedical perspectives.
The goals of the BC Rural and Remote
Health Research Network are to create a
research infrastructure to:
- Build capacity in rural and remote
health research by increasing the number
of researchers from all four pillars;
- Support multi-disciplinary and
multi-professional research
collaboration across the spectrum from
communities to universities;
- Support the exchange of new
knowledge between researchers, policy
makers, health care providers and
consumers.
Centre for Remote Health
mission: "To provide appropriate tertiary
education, training and research, focusing
on the discipline of remote health, to meet
the health needs of remote communities in
the NT and adjacent areas. The Centre will
particularly address Indigenous health
issues and the educational needs of
Indigenous health professionals."
CME Net
This website provides information on
continuing medical education for rural GPs.
There are opportunities to view the calendar
of CME activities and scheduled workshops,
participate in the discussion forum or
review its archives, as well as the ability
to search the information provided on this
website using an in-built search engine.
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal
and Tropical Health - CRCATH
The CRCATH aims to "carry out and promote
research" into Aboriginal health, education
and training, and disseminate this
information to the community at large to
"promote the health interests of all
Aboriginal people and those other people
living in the tropics." This website
contains information about their activities,
publications, courses and scholarships, as
well as a 'latest news' section.
Flinders Rural and Remote Community Clinical
School
General Practice & Primary Health Care,
Northern Territory (GPPHCNT)
Health and Medicine Website Directory
Contains many links to health and health
related websites, including rural health.
Healthy Ontario
This site contains thousands of pages of
original content, health assessment tools,
health and medical information, healthcare
services available in Ontario, and links to
other Ontario health and wellness Web sites.
Journal of Rural and Remote Environmental
Health
The Journal of Rural and Remote
Environmental Health is a refereed online
publication featuring review, investigation,
management and research articles in the
broad area of environmental health with a
focus on rural and remote situations.
Minessota Rural Physician Associate Program
(This is the web-based resource page
available to students in the RPAP - a
similar program to the PRCC)
Monash University School of Rural Health
The Centre fosters research and awareness of
rural health and related issues, focussing
on the areas of education, research,
workforce and community knowledge and
organisational process. They also point out
that the LISARRH database (Literature
Information Service for Australian Rural and
Remote Health) is coming soon to the
Website.
National Center for Frontier Communities
National Center for Frontier Communities is
the only national organization dedicated to
the smallest and most geographically
isolated communities in the United States -
the frontier.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Rural Faculty, Royal Australian
College of General Practitioners
This site contains news of relevance to
rural general practitioners, information
about the RACGP’s rural qualification, and
resources of use to rural GPs, along with
links to a wealth of resources available
from the RACGP for rural GPs such as
preventative guidelines, Australian Family
Physician, GP Review, and the College’s
extensive library resource collection.
National Rural Health Alliance
This is an alliance of key rural health
stakeholders, whose main objectives are to
set up links, affect policy and provide
information in the area of rural health.
This website provides a facility to do that,
with features such as a discussion group,
with a database of previous discussion
issues, as well as an extensive list of
relevant articles for viewing on-line.
NSW Rural Doctors Network
The NSW Rural Doctors Network (RDN) provides
support for a continuing and high quality
rural medical workforce in New South Wales
(NSW).
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Health Services
This website offers government information
on Indigenous health. There is not a huge
amount of information, but there is quite a
number of media releases and a comprehensive
list of links to other websites.
Queensland University Applied Health Science
(Rural & Remote)
This website describes the new programs in
Applied Health Science (Rural and Remote).
The Programs have been developed
collaboratively through the University of
Queensland and the University of Southern
Queensland.
Riverland PRCC Program
Innovative rural undergraduate clinical
medical education
Rural Doctors Association (NSW) Inc.
Provides news, resources and information to
rural doctors. Their website contains access
to a variety of search specific Internet
search engines, world newspapers on-line,
financial information, employment
opportunities, as well as an extensive list
of links.
Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa
RuDASA strives for the adequate staffing of
rural health services by appropriately
skilled medical staff and to be a voice for
the rural doctor regarding training and
working conditions.
Rural Health Education Foundation
This is the website for the Rural Health
Education Foundation, who provides medical
education broadcasts to rural and remote
sites in Australia. This website details the
timetable for broadcasts, location for
sites, information about the content and the
opportunity to post comments or questions
before the broadcast. There is also
information about videos of previous
programs and technical support.
Rural Health Register
"The Rural Health Research Register is a
national on-line database which contains
information on a wide range of research and
educational projects in the field of rural
health…You can easily add details of your
project to this register. Existing entries
are currently being reviewed and we
appreciate all new and updated information."
Rural Health Webring
The Rural Health WebRing is comprised of
sites dedicated to rural health issues - it
includes government, educational and health
agency websites from around the world.
Rural Medical Education
Spencer Gulf Rural Health School
This is a joint venture between the
University of SA and the University of
Adelaide, which provides links and
information on rural health. They also
provide an in-built search engine to search
all of the 'publicly available documents'
located on their Website.
The Australian Rural Health Education
Network (ARHEN)
ARHEN is a national communication and
coordination body for all University
Departments of Rural Health (UDRH) in
Australia.
The Frontier Education Center
The Frontier Education Center is the only
national organization dedicated to the
smallest and most geographically isolated
communities in the United States - the
frontier.
WONCA
"WONCA is short for World Organization of
National Colleges, Academies and Academic
Associations of General Practitioners/Family
Physicians, or World Organization of Family
Doctors for short. Wonca's Web site, Global
Family Doctor, provides a daily news service
featuring synopses of relevant articles from
family medicine and major general journals,
updated every weekday and posted within
minutes of publication."
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