Beyond the black stump: rapid reviews of health research issues affecting regional, rural and remote Australia.

This study looks at:

1. Retail initiatives to improve the healthiness of food environments in rural, regional and remote communities.
2. Which interventions best support the health and wellbeing needs of rural populations experiencing natural disasters?
3. The impact of bushfires on the wellbeing of children living in rural and remote Australia.
4. The role of national policies to address rural allied health, nursing and dentistry workforce maldistribution.
5. Availability and characteristics of publicly available health workforce data sources in Australia.
6. Rapid realist review of opioid tapering in the context of long term opioid use for non-cancer pain in rural areas.

Sonya R Osborne, Donella Piper, coordinating editors, on behalf of the Spinifex Network Rapid Review Subcommittee.