Learning Objectives

• Discuss the social determinants of health relevant to mental health issues in rural and remote communities
• Discuss factors underlying increased suicide risk in rural and remote communities
• Describe an appropriate service response to a threat of suicide
• Describe the historical, social, and cultural factors underlying mental health issues and suicide in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Rural & Remote Communities

• what SDoH contribute to an $\uparrow$ risk of suicide in rural and remote communities?
• what SDoH may acts as protective factors?
• what are 4 common ways in which anxiety and depression present?
• what factors makes a service appropriately respond to suicide?
• what factors should be considered when managing acute mental health problems?

Agricultural & Mining Communities

• what challenges are faced by agricultural communities?
• what challenges are faced by mining communities?
• what are implications of this for health service delivery?

ATSI Mental Health

• what historical factors affect it?
• what social factors affect it?
• what cultural factors affect it?