Abstract
The 10th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium was held in Hobart, Tasmania 15-17 October 2018. Over 250 mental health practitioners, consumers, carers, advocates, policy makers, managers and researchers from across rural and remote Australia met to showcase initiatives, share innovations and to network over the three days. Across the nine plenary sessions and 46 presentations, a set of strengths, themes, challenges and key messages emerged. The following communiqué summarises the most important points, as voted by the delegates to the symposium.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 442-443 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | The Australian journal of rural health |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2019 |
Event | 10th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium - Hobart, Australia Duration: 15 Oct 2018 → 17 Oct 2018 Conference number: 10 |
Keywords
- rural Australia
- Remote mental health
- Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium
- Rural mental health
- community connection
- rural suicide
- farming and suicide
- resilience
- mental health literacy
- Carer support
- Well being