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Record W1483182150 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511607363.013

Working in rural and remote settings

2006· book-chapter· en· W1483182150 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Andrew C. Page, Werner G. K. Stritzke

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2006
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Health Workforce Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetropolitan areaEconomic shortageQuarter (Canadian coin)SpecialtyRural areaCurriculumWork (physics)PopulationPsychologySociologyGeographyMedical educationPublic relationsPedagogyPolitical scienceMedicineEngineeringPsychiatry

Abstract

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Psychological practice in rural and remote settings involves several unique personal and professional challenges. Generally, very few psychology trainees are formally prepared for those challenges because curriculum components and supervised practice experiences tend to be focused on urban and metropolitan settings. Perhaps not surprisingly, historical shortages of specialty mental health professionals are a persistent problem in most rural communities (DeLeon et al ., 2003). For example, in Australia, one quarter of the population lives in rural and remote areas (Harvey & Hodgson, 1995), but only about 12 percent of all Australian psychologists live and work in those areas (Griffiths & Kenardy, 1996). Mental health services in rural communities There is no consensus regarding the definitions of rural or remote as opposed to metropolitan , but a common characteristic of rural and remote communities is that they are descriptive of areas where the population density is low (U.S. Census Bureau, 2002) and geographic distance imposes restriction upon accessibility to the widest range of goods and services and opportunities for social interaction (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001). Long distances and harsh environmental conditions constitute significant barriers for rural residents to access mental health services (DeLeon et al ., 2003). Likewise, delivering services to where they are needed by consumers can be a daunting routine if a home visit by a psychologist means driving several hundred kilometers (Lichte, 1996).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.085

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0250.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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