Archives: Dirt Research

Thursday, July 27, 2023

New Article | Health Service Implementation and Antifragile Characteristics: A Dirt Research Approach

Health Service Implementation and Antifragile Characteristics: A Dirt Research Approach Petrie S & PA Peters. (2023) “Health Service Implementation and Antifragile Characteristics in Rural Communities: A Dirt Research Approach.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(14): 6418.... More

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

New Article | Characteristics of High-Resource Health System Users in Rural and Remote Regions: A Scoping Review

Characteristics of High-Resource Health System Users in Rural and Remote Regions: A Scoping Review LeBlanc M, McGaughey T, & PA Peters. (2023) “Characteristics of High-Resource Health System Users in Rural and Remote Regions: A Scoping Review.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(7): 5385.... More

Friday, January 7, 2022

New Article | What a Pandemic Has Taught Us About the Potential for Innovation in Rural Health

What a Pandemic Has Taught Us About the Potential for Innovation in Rural Health: Commencing an Ethnography in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Australia Petrie S, Carson D, Peters PA, Hurtig A-K, LeBlanc M, Simpson H, Barnabe J, Young M, Ostafichuk M, Hodge H, Glademan J, Smale M, & M Gonzalez Garcia. (2021)... More

Monday, May 13, 2019

Rural Health Systems and Rural Research

In a recent commentary published in the University of Toronto Medical Journal I argue that we need to broaden the narrative on rural health. In this commentary, I claim that in order to be sensitive and relevant, rural health research must change the perspective through which it views rural people and rural communities. First,... More

Thursday, July 26, 2018

My Village Is Dying? Integrating Methods from the Inside Out

This article is the the latest from our international research team examining small villages in the developed world. For this research, we combined three case studies we had conducted in Australia, Canada, and Sweden and used these to confront the notion of rural "decline." Small rural villages are often characterized by 'decline' in literature,... More

Load More →