A coroner investigating the deaths of three Indigenous women with rheumatic heart disease has found health systems in a remote Queensland community failed. The deaths within 18 months of one another sparked an inquest into what would otherwise be considered natural cause deaths, coroner Nerida Wilson said in her findings handed down in Cairns on…

Supporters of America’s community health centers presented the case for a funding boost of up to $30 billion by 2030 during a March 2 budget hearing. “Immediate and long-term funding is more vital than ever before,” CEO of Advocates for Community Health, Amanda Pears Kelly, told the assembly. Kelly illustrated that community health centers (CHCs) currently…

A study on Australian medical graduates has found graduates who did clinical placements in rural areas were far more likely to work in rural areas as doctors than graduates who did not. “Eight years after graduation, rural origin graduates with extended rural clinical school experience were more likely than metropolitan origin graduates without this experience…