Some schools have actually initiated remote school attendance for those facing a bullying situation.
The team sees people using it for gaming, sight-seeing, remote trade show attendance, and technical support.
It argues that impressive numbers are easier to establish in cities than remote rural areas, where attendance is lower and drop-out rates higher.
The literature on appointment keeping generally report a non-attendance range from 10-20% [ 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 16], however at our remote rural clinic the percentage of non-attendance is much higher at 35%.
With the objective of providing skilled birth attendance to women living in remote areas, the program aimed to deploy 12,000 CMWs over a five year period between 2007 and 2012 [ 5].
Each community-based school serves only the village in which it is situated; schools are widely dispersed, making attendance more practical for children spread across remote regions.
Generally speaking, the more remote the school, the more excuses are made for poor attendance.
Scullion admitted the pools were a drawcard to boost school attendance, justifying a "one-off payment to support remote community pools to be open for the 2013-2014 season".
Two years ago, the state of Indiana cut the Ernie Pyle site loose from the government fold to save a little money; the attendance was too low and the site too remote, it said.
There is an opportunity to use these strategies to support health service delivery in remote communities that may improve adherence to medications and clinic attendance.
