Rural Health
Deadline for Papers: 28th February 2010
Guest Editors: Lisa Bourke (University of Melbourne)
Juli Coffin (Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health)
Jeffrey Fuller (University of Sydney) and
Judy Taylor (University of South Australia)
ISBN 978-1-921348-79-2 ii+110 pages December 2010
Rural Society is a refereed journal published by eContent in association with the Institute of Land Water and Society and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University. Each year one issue is devoted to a particular theme - the 2010 themed issue will focus on rural health.
Rural health emerged in Australia as a response to its workforce crisis and findings that the health status of rural Australians was poorer than their urban counter-parts. Despite wide recognition of the social determinants, rural health is still very focused on increasing its workforce and improving access to health services. It has also identified that the dramatic statistics describing the health of Indigenous Australians in rural and particularly remote Australia is a major contributor to the poorer health status of rural and remote Australians, and therefore aims to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. But has rural health as a discipline moved beyond this reactive response to the rural health crisis? Are workforce and health status the key issues in rural health? Furthermore, what do we really understand about rural health in Australia and other developed nations with similar rural sectors?
This Special Issue of Rural Society (ISBN 978-1-921348-79-2) will focus upon these issues and discussions of rural health in Australia. Key questions include:
- Is access to quality health care possible in rural and remote Australia?
- What has been White Australia's commitment to, history of and strategies toward the health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities in rural and remote Australia in the past, and what can we learn for the future?
- What is the role of rural and Indigenous communities in the health, wellbeing and social care of their residents?
- Is rural health medically dominated or multidisciplinary, and how has this impacted the discipline's development?
- How can we make sense of the rural health crisis and the recent decade of policy responses?
- What is the role of health promotion in challenging cultural processes underpinning health in rural communities?
- Are the key discourses in rural health contributing to or addressing the workforce crisis?
Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract of up to 200 words on these issues for consideration by the referees. Abstracts should be sent as email attachments in Microsoft Word Rich Text Format to the Editor of Rural Society, Marion Bannister, at mbannister@csu.edu.au. Identifying information such as author's name and affiliation should not be included in the body of the abstract document.
The timetable for this issue is as follows:
- Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 30 September 2009
- Abstracts selected and successful authors advised: 01 November 2009
- Full papers due: 28 February 2010
- Publication date: 01 December 2010
Generic information for contributors to Rural Society can be found below. Other inquiries may be directed to the Guest editors by emailing bourke@unimelb.edu.au,
Associate Professor Lisa Bourke -- School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Juli Coffin -- Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health, Western Australia
Associate Professor Jeffrey Fuller -- Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health, University of Sydney
Dr Judy Taylor -- Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, University of South Australia
Key points from the generic notes for contributors
All submissions must be based on original research or scholarship, drawing on a theoretical framework from the social sciences. The articles in this journal are fully refereed prior to acceptance. The overall quality of Rural Society is maintained by the Editorial Board. Prospective contributors are welcome to contact any member of the Board, or the editors, for advice on their submission.
Upon acceptance of an article, copyright is transferred to the publisher; moral rights are retained by the author.
Please note that articles appearing in the refereed articles section DO count as refereed journal articles in the DEST Higher Education Research Data Collection. Rural Society is listed in the DEST Register of Refereed Journals. Cabell's, Ulrich's Directories is indexed in Thomson-Gale databases including Web of Knowledge, EBSCOHost databases and ERIC and in a range of aggregator databases.
The following guidelines are offered to assist prospective authors and contributors:
- Articles should be 4000-8000 words in length
- Articles should be fully referenced to the appropriate literature
- Illustrations (photographs etc) should be supplied separately. We request that you contact the editors if you intend to include visual materials.
- A statement that the article has not been submitted elsewhere must be included; and
- A set of keywords.
Summary of APA guidelines for referencing used by Rural Society
In text references should take the following format:
- (Smith 1998)
- (Smith & Jones 1998: 32)
- Smith and Jones (1998) suggest that research
(The page number is only given for a direct quotation in the text.)
Multiple authors
When a reference has three, four or five authors, then all the authors are listed the first time that it is cited in the text. After the first citation, only the surname of the first author is cited, followed by 'et al'.
However, if there are six or more authors, only the surname of the first author is cited in the text, followed by 'et al'.
- (Hall et al, 1998)
In the reference list, the names and initials of the first six authors are included, and any remaining authors are listed as 'et al'.
Secondary sources
- Seidenberg and McClelland's study (as cited in Coltheart & Haller 1993)
The secondary source (ie, Coltheart & Haller 1993) only is included in the reference list.
Reference list should take the following format:
Book
Smith E (1999) Understanding rural change: A local view. Sydney: Wentworth.
Journal article
Smith E and Jones PR (2000) Rural change in Victoria. Rural Society 10(5): 34-45.
(If, and only if, each issue of a journal begins on page 1, give the issue number in parentheses immediately after the volume number.)
(If the article has only been viewed in its electronic form, [Electronic version] should be added after the article title.)
Chapter in a book
Dixon J (1981) The age pension: Developments from 1890 to 1978. In Howe AL (Ed.) Towards an older Australia: Readings in social gerontology, pp.65-81. St Lucia QLD: University of Queensland Press.
Published conference proceedings
Cheng W and Coleman DC (1989) Rhizsphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition. In Keister DL and Cregan PB (Eds) Beltsville Symposia in Agricultural Research, pp.8-18. Atlanta GA: Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia.
Unpublished conference paper
Lonne B and Cheers B (2001 September) 'Adjusting to rural practice: A national study'. Paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Social Workers, Melbourne.
Internet sources
Goldie N (1999) CSIRO media release: Korea, Australia to share environment satellite. Retrieved 20 May 1999 from http://www.csiro.au/news/mediarel/mr1999/mr99107.html.
For more detail, please refer to:
American Psychological Association (2001) Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edn. Washington DC: Author.
Authors are requested to follow Rural Society Author Guidelines.
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