Dr Graeme Horton

Human health is a function of multiple determinants. Whilst bio-genetics may be somewhat immutable, we can influence the social and environmental conditions that determine health status. This chapter examines the impacts of climate change super-imposed upon decades of rural neglect, and upon rural living in a naturally difficult environment. The demonstrated manifestations of these are poor health outcomes, which renders rural children in Australia especially vulnerable to climate change. Here we propose to consider the specific features behind this vulnerability. Agriculture in Australia has long faced challenges due to the extreme variability in existing climate. International commodity market fluctuations and policies of economic rationalism have created a set of rural disadvantages that has driven many farmers off the land. Climate change is predicted to further exacerbate this trend by increasing the frequency and intensity of heat waves, droughts, fires and floods. Recent weather patterns indicate that climate science predictions are already emerging. Survival of many rural communities depends upon local agricultural prosperity, such that downturns reverberate throughout regions. Yet despite the charm of country living, rurality has become an un- healthy determinant in Australia, across multiple parameters. Concerns over future viability of farming are generating physical and mental health problems among farming families. Once responsible for Australia's reputation as being the "lucky country", Australia's agricultural sector is now in danger of morphing into a "climate change canary", an early casualty of climate change. Rural Australia is in real peril, and rural children are especially vulnerable to becoming despondent about their future. Options exist to not only salvage Australia's rural future, but to engage rural communities in mitigation; however this requires commitment to pro-active and pro-rural climate change polices. As of mid 2010, such foresight has yet to appear on the political agenda, instead, we see policies promoting abandonment of rural industries.

In ¿Assessing the Efficacy of an Individualized Psychological Flexibility Skills Training Intervention App for Medical Student Burnout and Well-being: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial¿ (JMIR Res Protoc 2022;11(2):e32992), the authors made the following update. On March 17, 2022, the authors had published a corrigendum [1] to change the reported intervention duration from 5 weeks to 8 weeks. However, the intervention duration reported in the originally published article was correct. The current corrigendum restores the reported intervention duration to 5 weeks with the following changes: 1. In the Methods section of the Abstract, a statement appeared as follows: Participants in the individualized and nonindividualized intervention arms will have 8 weeks to access the app, which includes a PF concepts training session (stage 1) and access to short PF skill activities on demand (stage 2). This has been corrected as follows: Participants in the individualized and nonindividualized intervention arms will have 5 weeks to access the app, which includes a PF concepts training session (stage 1) and access to short PF skill activities on demand (stage 2). 2. In the Data Collection Tools and Procedures section of Methods, a statement appeared as follows: Data will be collected at two time points: T1 (baseline) and T2 (following the completion of the app-based intervention, commencing 8 weeks after baseline). This has been corrected as follows: Data will be collected at two time points: T1 (baseline) and T2 (following the completion of the app-based intervention, commencing 5 weeks after baseline). 3. In the Intervention Stages section of Methods, a statement appeared as follows: Participants who are allocated to the individualized and nonindividualized groups will have access to the 2-stage app for 8 weeks. This has been corrected as follows: Participants who are allocated to the individualized and nonindividualized groups will have access to the 2-stage app for 5 weeks. 4. In the Intervention Stages section of Methods, a statement appeared as follows: Participants may complete as many activities as they choose, but will be asked to complete at least four stage 2 skill activities during their 8-week period of access to the app. The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on July 11, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made This has been corrected as follows: Participants may complete as many activities as they choose, but will be asked to complete at least four stage 2 skill activities during their 5-week period of access to the app. 5. Following the previous corrigendum [1], Figure 1 was altered to reflect the intervention duration of 8 weeks. The present corrigendum updated Figure 1 as follows: (Figure Presented) The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on July 11, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories.