Institute of Rural Health

Rural Health Week

The dates of this year's Rural Health Week are: Sunday 19th – Saturday 25th September 2010.

Rural Health Week is an annual event run for the Institute of Rural Health. Each year we choose a cross-cutting a 'theme' for the week in order to engage as widely as possible, and this year's theme is:

Health, climate change, and sustainability - developing positive rural responses

The aim of the week is to raise the profile of rural health issues locally, regionally and nationally. The Institute and the Forum run a number of national events and target the national press to raise awareness of rural health issues. Since 2002 other agencies and organisations have joined in with events in their own localities.

How can you join in?

Joining the week is very easy and you can get as involved as you like. You could:

• Organise an event
• Launch a new project or strand of work
• Set up an exhibition for your community or a talk for your agency or organisation
• Advertise your event on the Rural Health Week web page
• Target your local press. Write an article or invite them along to your event
• Highlight a 'hot' rural health issue on the Rural Health Week web page
• Run a rural health information day
• Advertise Rural Health Week on your web site
• Simply send a message of support for the week to the web page
• Find out what others are doing from the Rural Health Week Events page

To find out more or to submit details of your activities for Rural Health Week please contact:

Go on - get involved - put rural health on the agenda
- make Rural Health Week a success!