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Investing in rural health brings dollar returns to local economies (and improves health)
Rural primary health care, including patient evacuation services, general practice and mental health care deliver more than just health....
Oct 20, 20225 min read


$5 million in funding to support children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
The Healthy Communities Foundation Australia (THCFA) and the University of Sydney have been awarded funding to expand services for...
Oct 10, 20222 min read


Why work in rural and remote Australia?
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that 43,000 Australians moved from cities to regional areas in 2020. This number...
Oct 1, 20221 min read


How rural Canada can attract and retain international health-care providers: Address discrimination
Natalya Brown, Nipissing University; Melissa Kelly, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Victoria Esses, Western University Smaller...
Aug 31, 20224 min read


Australia is dragging its feet on healthy eating. In 5 years we’ve made woeful progress
Australia is falling behind other countries in addressing the unhealthy state of our diets. Several other countries, including the United...
Jul 1, 20224 min read


Urgent Need for Rural Health JobKeeper Package
The Healthy Communities Foundation Australia (THCFA) Chief Executive Officer, Mark Burdack, has today called on the State and Federal...
Apr 8, 20223 min read


Front-line nurses, burnt-out or on the brink.
Pre-Covid, the healthcare system was already struggling. It’s time to invest in primary care and best practices to take that weight off...
Mar 24, 20224 min read


Healthy Communities: A case for structural change in how we manage our health
Looking at our health system from an outsider’s perspective, governments wanting to reduce the unsustainable growth of health budgets should
Feb 14, 20226 min read


NSW Inquiry into the Management of COVID
Introductory remarks to evidence given at the NSW Inquiry into the Management of COVID by The Healthy Communities Foundation Australia...
Feb 12, 20225 min read


Rural people addressing rural health Integrated Rural Health Award - Angela Hubbard
The winner of the 2021 Integrated Rural Health Award is Angela Hubbard. A physiotherapist based in central western NSW, Angela has...
Dec 22, 20213 min read


What you need to know about the Omicron Covid-19 Strain
What is the Omicron Strain of COVID-19? COVID-19 is caused by a virus. As our bodies build up an immunity to protect us from infection...
Nov 29, 20213 min read

Building on Strengths: Challenging the Rural Health Deficit Discourse
They say 'necessity is the mother of all invention'. In this regard, rural and remote Australia has a lot of which to be proud in its...
Aug 20, 20214 min read

OPINION: A holistic and integrated approach to social determinants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates that only 20 percent of health outcomes can be attributed to access to health and medical...
Aug 19, 20214 min read

OPINION: A Country Practice: Community Engaged Health Care
A Country Practice screened on Australian televisions from 1981 to 1994. It portrayed the life of rural doctors living and working in a...
Aug 18, 20214 min read

OPINION: Out with the New, In with the Old
Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd (or RARMS for short) was established by rural doctors in NSW as a charity in 2001 to help rural and...
Aug 17, 20213 min read

OPINION: We need a COVID 'Plan Zero' for Western NSW
We need a COVID Plan Zero for Western NSW to stomp out the COVID risk in our communities. As the NSW Minister for Health acknowledged the...
Aug 17, 20213 min read


Mark Burdack, CEO of THCFA
Mark Burdack was appointed as the CEO of The healthy Communities Foundation Australia (formerly Rural and Remote Medical Services) in...
Aug 17, 20215 min read


OPINION: Rural and remote communities need to lead rural and remote health
Rural and remote people cannot be held responsible for the failure of a health system over which they have no control.
Aug 16, 20213 min read


A million dollars for new Collarenebri Youth & Health Hub
Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd (RARMS) has welcomed the announcement today by The Hon Keith Pitt, Minister for Resources and...
Jul 12, 20214 min read


Best COVID Vaccination Ads
Around the world governments are getting the COVID vaccination message out to their populations. RARMS has selected its favourites. ...
May 22, 20211 min read
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