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- Rural industries, disciplines and health providers will be working collaboratively to address the health of farming families.
- Leadership opportunities for rural and remote nurses in an innovative project.
- Including farm family health in the context of their daily lives, not only improves farm family health it enhances the productive potential of their farm.
- Increases in health and well-being having a positive influence on reducing depression and poor health and illness such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, injury has been closely linked with an increase in mental illness.
- Early intervention in health problems will lead to less pressure on the rural health infrastructure.
- Long-term health/well being of farming families contributes to industry and community sustainability.
- Further skill development and training for rural and remote nurses will result.
Benefits for you and your community
- Physical Evaluations - including fasting, cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, waist hip ratio and weight for height
- Focus group discussion
- Introducation of project
- State of rural health - how are we travelling?
- Cardiovascular disease - getting to the heart of things
- Cancer - you can beat it (includes bowel and skin cancer)
- Farm health & safety - where you live, work and play
- Individual Health Assessments
- Nutrition & Diet
Supermarket Tour
- Stress - Less
- Gender Benders
- Action Planning
- Evaluation & Discussion
