How healthy are the healthcare staff in a rural health service? A...
Summary: The research reports that: Healthcare workers operate in a stressful environment; with rotating shifts impacting health and recent evidence suggesting...
March 28, 2024
Which Technologies Make Australian Farm Machinery Safer? A Decision...
This project combined systems engineers, farm safety researchers, work health and safety inspectorate and policymakers with the aim of designing a way in which...
March 5, 2024
Influencing a Culture of Safety on Farms
A report from the National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH), Hamilton and the Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research (ISCRR) summarising the...
June 7, 2023
Co-designing a peer-led model of delivering behavioural activation...
This paper describes the findings of a co-design phase informing the development of a peer (farmer)-led approach for delivering BA for farmers living with...
April 11, 2023
Steering Straight: Adapting suicide risk safety planning as a...
This paper draws on the principles of suicide risk safety planning to co-design a farming community resource for preventing and managing risks to mental health.
February 16, 2023
2015-06-18 New project to reduce suicide and stigma about mental...
REDUCING stigma about mental health issues is the focus of a new suicide-reduction project. To mark International Men’s Health Week, Beyondblue announced...
June 18, 2015
2015-06-17 Troy Luff tackles stigma of mental illness, a real killer...
The irony is not lost on former Sydney Swans great Troy Luff. Fifteen years ago, when the AFL footballer was mired deep in debilitating depression, he...
June 18, 2015
2015-06-17 Troy Luff tackles stigma of mental illness, a real killer...
The irony is not lost on former Sydney Swans great Troy Luff. Fifteen years ago, when the AFL footballer was mired deep in debilitating depression, he...
June 17, 2015
2015-05-26 Self-reliance stops people in the bush seeking help for...
Health professionals believe a culture of dealing with tragedy in isolation remains an ongoing issue, the National Rural Health Conference in Darwin has been...
June 1, 2015
Seeking farming family members bereaved by suicide
Andrew Mole is an award-winning rural and regional journalist who has been working in agricultural and regional Australia for almost 30 years....
September 17, 2014
2014-08-15 Exploring the ripple effect of rural suicide - ABC Bush...
It’s often said that country people are a resilient lot. Alison Kennedy has attempted to test this theory in an area that many people find difficult to...
August 18, 2014
2014-08-13 Life after suicide in farming communities, shaping...
It’s now widely known that suicide and accidental deaths are far more common in farming communities than in the general population. There is much...
August 13, 2014