A community engaged primary healthcare strategy to address rural school student inequities: a descriptive paper.
Prim Health Care Res Dev
; 20: e26, 2019 03 20.
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ABSTRACT
AIM:
This descriptive paper aims to describe the design and implementation of a community engaged primary healthcare strategy in rural Australia, the Primary Healthcare Registered Nurse Schools-Based strategy. This strategy seeks to address the health, education and social inequities confronting children and adolescents through community engaged service provision and nursing practice.BACKGROUND:
There have been increasing calls for primary healthcare approaches to address rural health inequities, including contextualised healthcare, enhanced healthcare access, community engagement in needs and solutions identification and local-level collaborations. However, rural healthcare can be poorly aligned to community contexts and needs and be firmly entrenched in health systems, marginalising community participation.METHODS:
This strategy has been designed to enhance nursing service and practice responsiveness to the rural context, primary healthcare principles, and community experiences and expectations of healthcare. The strategy is underpinned by a cross-sector collaboration between a local health district, school education and a university department of rural health. A research framework is being developed to explore strategy impacts for service recipients, cross-sector systems, and the establishment and maintenance of a primary healthcare nursing workforce.FINDINGS:
Although in the early stages of implementation, key learnings have been acquired and strategic, relationship, resource and workforce gains achieved.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Atención Primaria de Salud
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Servicios de Enfermería Escolar
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Servicios de Salud Comunitaria
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Servicios de Salud Rural
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Disparidades en Atención de Salud
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Prim Health Care Res Dev
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Australia