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Section 1: What is rural mental health?

(1.1) Section 1: What is rural mental health?

(1.2) What is rural mental health?

(1.3) The influence of the environment

(1.4) Why is 'rural' important?

(1.5) Why is 'rural' important?

(1.6) How many of us live in rural areas?

(1.7) How many of us live in rural areas?

(1.8) How is rurality defined?

(1.9) How is rurality defined?

(1.10) Reflection

(1.11) Quiz on rural stereotypes

(1.12) Who is rural?

(1.13) Why is all of this important?

(1.14) Why is all of this important?

(1.15) The bio-psycho-social model

(1.16) The rural environment

(1.17) Defining features of the rural environment

(1.18) Locals and incomers

(1.19) What makes a place rural?

(1.20) What makes a place rural?

(1.21) Section 1: Recap

(1.22) Section 1: Summary

 

Section 2: Aspects of rural life

(2.1) Section 2: Aspects of rural life

2.2) The rural idyll

(2.3) The rural idyll revisited...

(2.4) The rural environment – a therapeutic landscape?

(2.5) The rural community and community spirit

(2.6) The rural community and community spirit

(2.7) The rural community: disadvantages

(2.8) Effect of rurality on the use of healthcare services

(2.9) Access

(2.10) Access

(2.11) Social networks and social support

(2.12) Social exclusion

(2.13) Social exclusion

(2.14) Social exclusion (audio vignette)

(2.15) Social exclusion (audio vignette)

(2.16) Social exclusion

(2.17) Rural deprivation

(2.18) Rural deprivation

(2.19) Section 2: Recap

(2.20) Section 2: Summary

 

Section 3: The epidemiology of rural mental health

(3.1) Section 3: The epidemiology of rural mental health

(3.2) Rural research

(3.3) Rural research

(3.4) Rural research

(3.5) The prevalence of mental illness

(3.6) The prevalence of mental illness

(3.7) Suicide

(3.8) Learning disability

(3.9) The incidence of mental illness

(3.10) Why is it different?

(3.11) Demographic factors

(3.12) Demographic factors

(3.13) Aspects of rural life

(3.14) Other factors

(3.15) Does it matter?

(3.16) Section 3: Recap

(3.17) Section 3: Summary

 

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