Profiles And Contributions To This Article
Investing in longitudinal studies of primary healthcare: what can we learn about service performance, sustainability and quality?
qualifications: PhD
contribution: wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts, original concept
position: Senior research fellow
Australia
Dr Bernadette Ward is a researcher with interests in rural and remote primary health care systems, adolescent alcohol use and research capacity building.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts, collected data
position: Senior research fellow
Australia
Research interests include mental health, service systems, and clinical psychology practice
qualifications: MPH
contribution: literature review, supplied data, contributed to drafts
position: Research fellow
Australia
Rural health Oral health primary health care climate change
qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts, original concept
position: Associate professor
Australia
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Emeritus professor
Australia
Current research interests include:
- the social and spatial patterns of need for health related services in rural areas,
- rural health workforce recruitment and retention,
- the role and contribution of services to the health and wellbeing of communities,
- the provision of appropriate education, training and support for rural health workers and implementation of innovative service delivery models in order to provide sustainable health care in small rural and remote communities,
- the evaluation of rural health care planning and policies, and
- rural community development.
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