A mixed-methods evaluation of a health-promoting café located in a small health service in rural Victoria, Australia.

Introduction: Residents of rural areas internationally typically experience chronic disease risk profiles worse than city dwellers. Poor diet, a key driver of chronic disease, has been associated with unhealthy food environments, and rural areas often experience limited access to healthy, fresh and affordable food.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the first three years of a health promoting social enterprise café established in a small rural health service.

Audiologists' perspective on the treatment of ear-related ear, nose, and throat conditions in rural Victoria.

Objectives: To understand the experience of audiologists in managing and treating ear-related ear, nose and throat conditions in rural areas, and to identify the compounding factors that influence patient outcomes and potential targets for intervention.

Design: A focus group was conducted using a qualitative descriptive approach. Responses were audio-recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed.

Expanding the search for emerging mental ill health to safeguard student potential and vocational success in high school: A narrative review.

Aim: Young people experiencing mental ill health are more likely than their healthy aged peers to drop out of high school. This can result in social exclusion and vocational derailment. Identifying young people at risk and taking action before an illness is established or school dropout occurs is an important goal.

Perspectives from the frontline of two North American community paramedicine programs: an observational, ethnographic study.

Introduction: Community paramedicine is one emerging model filling gaps in rural healthcare delivery. It can expand the reach of primary care and public health service provision in underserviced rural communities through proactive engagement of paramedics in preventative care and chronic disease management. This study addressed key research priorities identified at the National Agenda for Community Paramedicine Research conference in Atlanta, USA in 2012.

Paramedic academics in Australia and New Zealand: The 'no man's land' of professional identity.

Those transitioning from practice to academia can struggle with the perception that they might lose their hard-won and deeply-held professional identity, while grappling with the difficulty of creating an academic identity. This is a common experience for those entering universities with strong clinical identities. Paramedics, as members of an emerging health profession, share these challenges with nursing and allied health professionals.

Youth mental ill health and secondary school completion in Australia: time to act.

Aim: This paper reviews the evidence of youth mental ill health and its impact on secondary school educational attainment.

Methods: This narrative review presents the current research related to the mental ill health of young people in urban and rural Australia, their educational attainment and the effectiveness of mental health strategies implemented in secondary schools.

Results: The prevalence of mental ill health is high for Australian young people and the onset of depression, anxiety, substance-use disorders and first episode psychosis (FEP) commonly occurs when the individual is at school.

Research capacity and culture of the Victorian public health allied health workforce is influenced by key research support staff and location.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to identify and understand the self-rated research capacity and culture of the allied health workforce. METHODS. The present study was a cross-sectional survey.