Rural and Remote Health (RRH), the international, electronic journal of rural and remote health education, practice and policy, aims to provide a freely accessible, peer-reviewed, international evidence base to inform improvement in rural health service delivery and health status in rural communities. The multidisciplinary, international Editorial Board reflects the five major thematic areas of the journal: rural health practice, policy, status/research, health education and Indigenous health. The Journal welcomes submissions in the form of original research; review articles; clinical case reports or reviews; policy, project or conference reports; personal views; book reviews; rural health history; letters to the editor; biographies of/ tributes to/ obituaries of important figures in the field of rural and remote health. RRH has no subscription fees, nor are there any article processing charges or submission charges. RRH is an open access journal.