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We must change our culture and learn from First Nations people to combat climate change, writes Dr Simon Quilty

Simon Quilty, Norman Frank Jupurrula

It is vital that health care providers and policy makers find innovative solutions to ensure that every woman, regardless of her geographic location, is able to have a safe and healthy childbirth experience.

Linda Slack-Smith, Esther Shackleton, Colleen Fisher, Anna Bosco

Parts 1 and 2 of this three-part series were a call to action to the medical profession to unite and transform its approach to preventing and managing work-related burnout and mental injury in doctors.

Leanne Rowe

A Voice to Parliament would provide a more direct avenue of feedback to the Australian Government to help eliminate rheumatic heart disease, writes Dr Ben Jones.

Ben Jones

Close relatives of people diagnosed with coeliac disease should be screened for the disease themselves, according to an Australia-first study.

Annika Howells

The rise of direct-to-consumer telemedicine has led to concerns that patients may not always receive continuity of care and or the most appropriate treatment pathways.

Caitlin Wright

We must invest in Australia’s mosquito and flavivirus surveillance to support rapid detection during mosquito seasons, ideally before we see human cases.

Tilda Thomson, Madeleine Marsland, Maxwell Braddick, Helen O’Brien

This second opinion piece in the three-part series is a call for further action by a united medical profession to address the enormous scale of work-related burnout and mental injury in doctors who work in psychologically unsafe health care workplaces. There are solutions.

Leanne Rowe

Despite increasing consensus among many representative health bodies of the need for reshaping the health landscape, governments need to do more to support team-based models of care, including involving paramedics.

Michelle Murphy