Rural Practice
The following collection is a list of published research and articles relates to sexual and reproductive health in a rural setting. To suggest inclusions for this listing please email : cersh-admin@unimelb.edu.au
"Almost like it was really underground": a qualitative study of women's experiences of locating services for unintended pregnancy in a rural Australian health system.
A Noonan, KI Black, GM Luscombe, J Tomnay (2023). Sexual and reproductive health matters, 31(1), 2213899. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2023.2213899
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Understanding the health care needs of transgender and gender diverse people engaging with rural Australian sexual health centres: a qualitative interview study.
A Del Tufo, R Foster, B Haire, CE Newman, AKJ Smith, M Crowley, D Burn, A McNulty. (2023). Sexual health, 20(4), 339–346. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH22159
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What women want from local primary care services for unintended pregnancy in rural Australia: a qualitative study from rural New South Wales.
A Noonan, KI Black, GM Luscombe, J Tomnay (2023). Australian journal of primary health, 29(3), 244–251. https://doi.org/10.1071/PY22134
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Improving rural and regional access to long-active reversible contraception and medical abortion through nurse-led models of care, task-sharing and telehealth (ORIENT): a protocol for a stepped-wedge pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial in Australian general practice.
D Mazza, M Shankar, JR Botfield, JE Moulton, SP Chakraborty, KI Black, J Tomnay, D Bateson, J Church, TL Laba, J Kasza, WV Norman. (2023). BMJ open, 13(3), e065137. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065137
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'I love my job...it's more the systems that we work in': the challenges encountered by rural sexual and reproductive health practitioners and implications for access to care.
C Malatzky, A Hulme (2022). Culture, health & sexuality, 24(6), 735–749. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2021.1880640
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Co-design of a nurse-led model of care to increase access to medical abortion and contraception in rural and regional general practice: A protocol.
JE Moulton, D Mazza, J Tomnay, D Bateson, WV Norman, KI Black, AK Subasinghe (2022). The Australian journal of rural health, 30(6), 876–883. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12937
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Women's experiences of accessing a medical termination of pregnancy through a Queensland regional sexual health service: a qualitative study.
C Cashman, SG Downing, D Russell (2021). Sexual health, 18(3), 232–238. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH20220
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Prescribing a long-active reversible contraception by general practice registraras across different rural regions of Australia: A cross-sectional analysis of the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training Study data.
R Turner, A Tapley, S Sweeney, A Davey, M van Driel, S Morgan, N Spike, K FitzGerald, P Magin (2021). The Australian journal of rural health, 29(3), 473–476. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12720
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'I didn't feel judged': exploring women's access to telemedicine abortion in rural Australia.
S Ireland, S Belton, F Doran. (2020). Journal of primary health care, 12(1), 49–56. https://doi.org/10.1071/HC19050
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Young Aboriginal people's sexual health risk reduction strategies: a qualitative study in remote Australia.
S Bell, J Ward, P Aggleton, W Murray, B Silver, A Lockyer, T Ferguson, CK Fairley, D Whiley, N Ryder, B Donovan, R Guy, J Kaldor, L Maher, L. (2020). Sexual health, 17(4), 303–310. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH19204
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Australian women’s experiences of a rural medical termination of pregnancy service: A qualitative study
Hulme Chambers, A., Temple-Smith, M., Davidson, A., Coelli, L., Orr, C. & Tomnay J.
Medical termination of pregnancy service delivery in the context of decentralization: social and structural influences
A. Hulme, S. Clune, J. Tomnay. International Journal for Equity in Health (2018) 17:172
Providing accessible medical abortion services in a Victorian rural community: A description and audit of service delivery and contraception follow up
Tomnay J., Coelli, L., Davidson, A., Hulme Chambers, A., Orr, C., Hocking JS.
‘Country women are resilient but. . . .’ : Family planning access in rural Victoria.
J. Kruss, and H. Gridley. The Aust. J. Rural Health (2014) 22, 300-305.
‘. . .a one stop shop in their own community’: Medical abortion and the role of general practice
D. Newton, C. Bayly, K. McNamee, M. Bismark, A. Hardiman, A. Webster and L. Keogh.
Expert consensus on a nurse-led model of medication abortion provision in regional and rural Victoria, Australia: a Delphi study
de Moel-Mandel, Caroline et al.