Tertiary education students experience higher levels of distress and mental disorder than both the general population and their age matched peers, requiring targeted mental health support.
It is important to optimise the pre-conception health of women, as women with PCOS are more likely to have a higher risk of pregnancy complications.
Collecting meaningful race and/or ethnicity data to improve public health outcomes is imperative and must be part of Australia’s national agenda.
Our team’s experiences have found that justice-involved people who are older are at risk of inadequate care and falling through service gaps, writes Jane Hwang.
As 2023 comes to a close, so too does our first year bringing you InSight+ every week.
The health impacts of climate change are in the spotlight, with the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia highlighting the urgent need for action to protect the health of the planet.
Brain injury advocate Dr Bruce Powell is calling on all Australian governments to act on the recommendations of the recent Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Clinicians and referrers need to need to be aware of non-classic ASD presentations and, in particular, the subtleties of autism in girls, writes Dr Joanna Tsirgiotis.
With refugees, migrants and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds more at risk of death by suicide, more funding and better record keeping is needed for suicide registries.
