Regional and Rural Mental Health
In general, the prevalence of mental health conditions in rural and remote Australia has been estimated as equivalent to levels in major cities. However, rural Australians face greater challenges as a result of such conditions, due both to the difficulty of accessing the support needed for mental illness and to the greater visibility attached to mental health in a smaller community.
Natural disasters such as drought, cyclones, floods, bushfire and pest infestations also contribute to mental illnesses and have a very direct impact on income and wellbeing for rural Australians.
Australia’s rural community has proven its resilience through many such trials and disasters and deserves at least the same level of health service support available in the rest of the country. In fact, despite the challenges, self-reported satisfaction with life tends to be higher in rural, regional and remote areas than in the major cities.
This was taken from the Fact Sheet Mental health in rural Australia produced in collaboration with the Mental Health Council of Australia. 2009
Recover Australia recognize that those living within rural areas are under resourced yet still require and deserve the services that metropolitain areas access.
We are therefore delighted to announce our first rural clinics based in Wallan and Kyneton, Victoria that allows access to a mental health nurse under the mental health nurse incentive program
Our next ventures will be within the Dalyesford, Kyneton, Romsey, Sunbury, Kilmore area's and we would love to hear from regional and rural areas who would like a Recovery Centre within their community!
If you would like to find out more please contact us at The Recovery centre
