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Contact: Professor John Humphreys
Tel: +61 3 5444 6455
URL: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/mrh/research
Key words: Rural mental health and illness services; health sociology, history of medicine, drugs and alcohol issues; social and cultural determinants of health; health status of, and health services provision for, immigrants, disadvantaged, and rural Australians; international health, industrial injury victims, complementary therapies, political economy of health, illness and health care, overseas Korean communities; current research focuses on health care planning and policies in rural and remote Australia, rural health workforce recruitment and retention; sustainable service delivery models, rural community development; rural and farm injuries; chronic illness; disability carers; health services models; work of voluntary organisations; qualitative research issues, and health policy; psychological interventions for depression and anxiety; cognitive functions in schizophrenia and alcohol and drug abuse; rehabilitation in Schizophrenia; dual diagnosis; multidisciplinary team work with a focus on speech pathology; community based rehabilitation for rural and remote communities; cross cultural language and cognitive assessment; early child development in disadvantaged communities; community-based education for health professionals; paediatrics and child health; community paediatrics in developing countries with a special emphasis on vaccine preventable diseases, diarrhoeal disease, acute respiratory infections and their impact on infant and child mortality; education and curriculum development with a special emphasis on the design and evaluation of community-based medical education programmes; rural health service delivery; female rural doctors; women in medicine; rural specialist workforce, management of chronic disease in rural areas; rural health systems, rural cancer services, rural hospital structures, and Internal medicine in rural areas; rehabilitation psychology; occupational rehabilitation; rural psychology; psychosocial influences on health and health outcomes; rural health consumers services quality issues; equity of access in health services; social determinants of indigenous health; indigenous women and children; reconciliation; health promotion and education; International Indigenous health and diabetes; critical and cute care; infection control; evidence-based practice; nursing and allied health research.
Lay terms: Medicine and health care in rural/urban Australia.
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