Posters

• Managing environmental lead in Broken Hill: a public health success

Frances Boreland, Margaret Lesjak, David Lyle, Centre for Remote Health Research, Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health

• Dental awareness through art: the dental dreaming project

Cathryn Carboon, Hume Hygiene

• The breast cancer experiences of rural Victorian women

Kate Cuss, Women’s Health Goulburn North East, Angela Verde, Department of Human Services, Hume Region, Debra Parkinson, Kerry Burns, Women’s Health Goulburn North East, Nerida Woodcock, Hume Breast Services Enhancement Program

• High mortality and poor survival of men with prostate cancer in rural and remote Australia—awareness and education their way

Jo Fairbairn, Andrew Giles, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, David Smith, Cancer Council NSW

• A case study in the sustainability of an Aboriginal primary mental health care partnership

Jeffrey Fuller, University of Sydney, Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health, Lee Martinez, Northern and Far Western Regional Health Service, Kuda Muyambi, Northern and Far Western Regional Health Service, Kathy Verran, Pika Wiya Health Service

• Can a partnership between the skilled health workforce and rural communities lead to more efficient after-hours service delivery?

Roberta Morris, National Primary Care Collaboratives, Flinders University of South Australia, Sandy Hammat, Rural Doctors Workforce Agency, Elizabeth Farmer, National Primary Care Collaboratives, Flinders University of South Australia

• Networks and boomerangs: enhancing the rural experience of specialist trainees

Melinda Keresztes, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians

• The rural doctor shortage: one solution

Sharafat Malek, Department of Rural and Indigenous Health, Monash University, Janice Chesters

• Trials and tribulations of practice nurses: can team-based care become practice?

Jenny May, Alicia Bonomo, University Department of Rural Health, Tamworth

• The "McGrail Index of Access" to primary care—the key to optimal health in rural Australia

Matthew McGrail, Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Studies in Rural Health, Monash University

• Clinical networks improving access and outcomes

Kate Needham, Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce

• “Getting Out”—a young person’s guide to becoming independent

Lani Newton, Eastern Eyre Health and Aged Care, Chelsea Baillie, Lower Eyre Health Services

• Cultural mentors for medical students in NT communities

Ada Parry, Northern Territory General Practice Education

• Where to from here

Marlene Parsons, Breast Cancer Network Australia, Vivienne Gregg, Breast Cancer Network Australia and Dragons Abreast

• Support Scheme for Rural Specialists: delivering education to rural specialists

Belinda Pond, Support Scheme for Rural Specialists

• Pharmacotherapeutics for remote area nurses

Frances Vaughan, Sabina Knight, Centre for Remote Health

• Coming together to reduce risk-taking behaviours among youth: Charleville Youth Interagency—a local solution

Sally Vetter, South West Health Communities Program

• The development of a web-based allied health/nursing student placement evaluation tool within a University Department of Rural Health

May Walker-Jeffreys, Gary Misan, Susan Shannon, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School

• Boarding now for the Royal Flying Doctor Service: results of a six-year student placement program in South Australia

Barbara Wright, Angela Burden, Rural Doctors Workforce Agency, Greg McHugh, Royal Flying Doctors Service, Jenny Tonks, Rural Doctors Workforce Agency

• Self-help CD-ROM program for anxious adolescents

Viviana Wuthrich, Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Ron Rapee, Heidi Lyneham, Carolyn Schniering, Jennifer Hudson