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Recognising and embracing the linguistic diversity of people receiving aged care in Australia is critical for high quality treatment and care, write Dr Monica O’Dwyer and Dr Meg Polacsek.
The “baby bust” must be part of Australia’s political agenda, so we can overcome this existential crisis, write Dr Clare Boothroyd, Dr Katharine Bassett and Professor Steve Robson.
Before we reinvest blindly in Medicare or hospital care, we really need to map out the service landscape of community mental health care, writes Dr Sebastian Rosenberg.
Neurodiversity-affirming practice is now recommended in national clinical guidelines for assessment and supports for autistic people, but making it happen requires engagement, understanding, and effort.
Declining fertility may help our damaged environments, but will create hugely complex social and economic problems and threaten health care as we know it, writes Dr Will Cairns in Part Two of this two-part series.
We suggest a “back to basics” approach to treating lung disease in Indigenous people in the Top End by making best use of limited resources, as shown in our recent study that used a simple chest x-ray and spirometry.
Australia needs to embrace a “rights lens” in health care delivery to promote the inherent human rights of Australia’s children and young people.
A project to tackle seclusion and restraint in one Local Health District in New South Wales not only reduced these practices, but improved leadership and collaboration in the mental health units.
New provisional guidance from the RACGP on the use of e-cigarettes to help Australians quit smoking provides a balanced approach for GPs, according to tobacco control experts.
