Rural Health Links

We hope to become the definitive directory of web sites dealing with rural health issues. If you have any web site recommendations please email info@irh.ac.uk

UK

• ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England)
  http://www.acre.org.uk/

• The Department of Postgraduate Education for General Practice
  Wales College of Medicine. http://www.primarycare-wales.org.uk

• Rural Emotional Support Team, R.E.S.T. http://www.ruralnet.org.uk/~rest/

• RDInfo is a fully searchable database of research funding opportunities currently featuring over 3900 different awards totalling in excess of £185m. http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/

• RDLearning provides information on over 5000 research-related events including postgraduate training courses, workshops and conferences. http://www.rdlearning.org.uk/

• RD Direct provides both online support and guidance on conducting a research project, in addition to offering a helpline service which is backed-up by a registered panel of advisors. http://www.rddirect.org.uk/

• National Osteoporosis Society, Bone Zone http://www.bonezone.org.uk

• Community Hospitals Association http://www.commhosp.org

• Just For Nurses http://www.justfornurses.co.uk

• Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), Aberystwyth, UK http://www.ihi.aber.ac.uk

• Royal College of General Practitioners Rural Doctors Discussion Forum http://www.rcgp.org.uk/clinspec/ruralgr.asp?menuid109

• UK National Database of Telemedicine, University of Portsmouth. http://www.dis.port.ac.uk/ndtm

• Rural Well Being http://www.ruralwellbeing.org.uk

• Rural Health Forum http://www.ruralhealthforum.org.uk

• Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm] http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/

• Walking the Way to Health Wales http://www.wwh2.org.uk/

USA

• NRHA (National Rural Health Association) http://www.nrharural.org/

• Rural Net, West Virginia http://ruralnet.marshall.edu/

• Minnesota Center For Rural Health http://www.d.umn.edu/mcrh/

• University of Minnesota: Rural Health Research Center http://www.hsr.umn.edu/rhrc

• School of Rural Public Health Proposal, Texas http://www.srph.tamhsc.edu

• North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Program http://www.schsr.unc.edu/research_programs/Rural_Program/rhp.html

• Center of Excellence in Rural Health http://www.mc.uky.edu/ruralhealth

• Rural Information Center Health Service (RICH) http://www.nal.usda.gov/

• The Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research http://www.unmc.edu/PSM/rural.health/crhr.html

• Center on Aging and Health in Rural America (CAHRA) http://www.pop.psu.edu/about-us/cahra.html

• Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development,Southern Illinois University.http://www.siu.edu/~crhssd/

• Farm Safety 4 Just Kids. http://www.fs4jk.org/

• La Clinica de Familia, New Mexico, USA http://www.lcdfnm.org

Canada

• Alberta Section of Rural Medicine www.ruralnet.ab.ca/asrm/

• Alberta Rural Medical Network www.ruralnet.ab.ca

• Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan www.rpap.ab.ca

• Alberta Rural Family Medicine Network www.arfmn.ab.ca

• Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR) http://www.cranhr.ca

• Canadian Rural Information Service http://rural.gc.ca/cris/

International Sites

• International Association of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health http://www.iaamrh.org

• World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) http://www.who.ch

Australia

• Spencer Gulf Rural Health School http://sgrhs.unisa.edu.au

• National Rural Health Alliance http://www.ruralhealth.org.au

• MONASH Centre for Rural Health, Australia http://www.monash.edu.au/informatics/ruralhealth/index.htm

• The Australian Rural Health Research Institute http://www.monash.edu.au/informatics/ruralhealth/

• Division of Rural and Community Health (Tasmania) http://www.ruralhealth.utas.edu.au/

• Australian Journal of Rural Health http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/nrhapublic/index.cfm?category=ajrh

• Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine(WACRRM) http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/gpweb/wacrrm/Welcome.html

• The West Australian Site for the Australian Rural Health Research Institute (ARHRI) http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/gpweb/arhri/Welcome.html

Europe

• Pharma-id Pharmaceutical Portal http://www.pharma-id.com

• Annals of Agricultural and Enviromental Medicine, http://www.aaem.pl

Other Countries

Telehealth

• Telemedicine information exchange http://tie.telemed.org

• Telemedicine report to Congress (not sure if this is relevant) http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/telemed/execsum.htm

• The Association of Telemedicine Service Providers, USA http://www.atsp.org

• Telehealth in Alaska, USA http://www.hss.state.ak.us/commissioner/telehealth/atac

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