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Rural Health Research and Education Initiatives in Aboriginal Communities

Explore various research themes within rural health, emergency medicine, and general practice focusing on Aboriginal health, diabetes, access to healthcare, and workforce trends. Investigate initiatives to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities in chronic diseases.

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Rural Health Research and Education Initiatives in Aboriginal Communities

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  1. Faculty Research Meeting W/Prof Jon Emery School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care (SPARHC)

  2. Emergency medicine General Practice SPARHC Centre for Aboriginal Medical & Dental Health Rural Clinical School Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health Centre for Rural & Remote Oral Health

  3. CUCRH • Diabetes • Presentation of risk of complications and behaviour change • Pregnancy outcomes in rural Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women • Aboriginal health • Yamatji Region Aboriginal Health Plan

  4. Centre for Rural and Remote Oral Health • Inequalities of access to dental healthcare • Dental health needs • Workforce trends • Geographical information systems • Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health • Tri-nations partnership grant: • Health professional education on indigenous health and reducing disparities in chronic disease outcomes • A Healthy Start to life • Aboriginal parenting project

  5. Emergency Medicine: clinical research • Resuscitation and pre-hospital care • RCT of adrenaline in cardiac arrest • Clinical ultrasound • Tele-ultrasound to aid in remote diagnosis • Thrombo-embolic disease and chest pain • Validation of PE diagnostic pathways • Sepsis • Rapid PCR testing to identify bacteraemia in the ED • Anaphylaxis and toxicology • identification of elevated cytokines in anaphylaxis • RCT of redback spider anti-venom

  6. Emergency Medicine: health services and education research • Major trauma outcome differences between rural and metropolitan sites • Role of visiting nurses to decrease attendances to ED by nursing home patients • Linked data analyses • ED frequent attenders, outcomes following ED attendance or ICU admission • Role of multidisciplinary team in improving falls outcomes • RCT of procedural skills teaching methods

  7. Rural Clinical School: research themes • The impact of environmental change on human health • Improving Indigenous health • Smoking cessation • Western Desert Renal Health project • Rural obstetric outcomes • Health systems in the country • Art and Medicine

  8. Rural Clinical School: research support • Research hubs in 5 regions with local research budget • Small projects grants ($30,000 each) for initiating projects and pilot work • Early career researcher grants ($30,000 each) • Support for undergraduate research students within the hubs (e.g. BMedSci rural top-up of $6,000) • Support for PhD students with a Rural PhD top-up of $10 000 pa for 3.5 years The

  9. General Practice Barrett’s oesophagus screening Skin cancer diagnostics Rural cancer outcomes

  10. General Practice • Genetics in primary care • Family history screening and chronic disease prevention • Fragile X carrier screening • Familial hypercholesterolaemia screening in rural primary care • Chronic disease management in primary care

  11. General Practice: collaboration ADD OXFORD; SYDNEY; durham

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