Postgraduate - Area of study Rural health

This area of study focuses on specialist areas of research relevant to rural health in line with the current strategic research directions for the School of Rural Health, which are outlined below as the intersection between overarching rural health priorities and defining issues in rural health.

Overarching rural health priorities:

• ageing well
• chronic Illness
• Indigenous Health
• mental Health and wellbeing.

Defining issues in rural health:

• access to rural primary health care
• innovative rural medical and health education and training
• quality rural health care services and health systems
• sustainable rural health workforce and development

While the above research priorities are not meant to be prescriptive, it is expected that any new postgraduate program of research would be relevant to rural health and fit with the available research supervisionavailable research supervision (http://www.med.monash.edu.au/srh/research/researchers.html) expertise within the school.