Nursing, Dentistry, Allied Health, and Medicine
As a ”Health Alliance”, AURHA is committed to supporting any kind of project that aims to attract Nursing, Dentistry, Oral Health and Allied Health students to experience what rural health can mean for their profession. Did you know that 60% of rural health professionals are nurses? It is vital that current students are exposed to rural practice to ensure that the rural workforce is maintained.
If you’re a nursing, dentistry, oral health or allied health student interested in rural health, we’d love to help you experience this fascinating field. You don’t need to have brilliantly thought through plans, you don’t even really need a plan. There are many sources of inspiration that can be gained from the multitude of organisations aimed at promoting rural health to students like yourself.
Contact us at mail@aurha.org.au, or come along to our next committee meeting (we’re an incredibly friendly group of people and we would love to see you there).
Cheers,
The AURHA committee
Dentistry and Oral Health
Some articles related to oral health workers in rural health are listed below:
- Oral health workforce in rural and remote Western Australia : Practice Perceptions, Estie Kruger and Mark Tennant, AUst J Rural Health (2005) 13, 321-326
- Rural health: A human right, Chris Sidoti, Aust J Rural Health (1999) 7, 202-205
- Rural public dental practice in Australia: Perspectives of Tasmanian government-employed dentists, Rosemary Cane, Judi Walker, Aust J Rural Health (2007) 15, 257-263
- “Key issues in rural and remote health”, a transcript by Dr Mark Hutton, delivered in a public seminar held by National Rural Health Alliance in Canberra, Friday 20 October 2006
- Editorial, Aust J Rural Health (2004) 12, 135-136