Improving the mental health of rural New South Wales communities facing drought and other adversities

Australian Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 231-238

  Hart, Craig Richard ^a   Berry, Helen Louise ^a,b   Tonna, Anne Maree ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Health service; Psychiatric; Remote; Rural adversity

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISASTER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 80053114977     PISSN: 10385282     EISSN: 14401584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2011.01225.x     Document Type: Article

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