ID-5184 Wonca Abstracts supplement A-K 13-10-23 - Flipbook - Page 132
WONCA 2023 Supplement 1: WONCA 2023 abstracts (A–K)
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Effective pathways to rural practice: Bringing a rural lens to
health policy formulation
Prof Alan Bruce Chater, Ruth Stewart
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WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice
Rural WONCA (the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice) has, over 30 years, advocated for an
equitable and evidence-based approach to rural health. Rural WONCA has collaborated with the WHO
in the production of the WHO guideline on health workforce development, attraction, recruitment
and retention in rural and remote areas (so-called ‘Rural Pathways’) and is working with the WHO
Department for Gender, Equity, Human Rights and the OECD in addressing health equity by ‘Rural
Proofing’ health policy.
The Rural Pathways and Rural Proofing initiatives provide policy tools that support high-quality
healthcare provided by rural generalists, including rural family physicians, nurses and others, in rural
communities.
This session will build on work done within the rural sector at the Rural Medicine 2023 official
preconference meeting and will bring these issues to a wider audience of family doctors and to policy
makers who have influence in the rural sector. The roundtable will focus on international experience
with Rural Pathways and look at how a Rural Proofing lens can be applied to health policy, planning
and programs.
The roundtable will be co-hosted by the Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice, who
will provide an international perspective, and the Australian Rural Health Commissioner, who will focus
on the Australian context.
Participants will be encouraged to share their context, challenges and successful experiences.
The roundtable will be facilitated by international experts from within Rural WONCA and partner
organisations and seek to highlight effective and practical approaches to rural health policy and
especially the rural health workforce.
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