Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non-urban occupational therapy services.
Karen HayesVagner Dos SantosMoses CostiganDanielle MorantePublished in: Australian occupational therapy journal (2022)
The hegemonic paradigm links occupational therapy services with neoliberal notions of individualism, private provision of care, and efficiency/market value, rather than the occupational therapy values for justice. The profession must consider our role in perpetuating injustice for non-urban people and consider if and how more contextually tailored counter hegemonic place-based paradigms can be developed from and with regional, rural, and remote practice.