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Burnout in health care undermines the safety of patients and practitioners alike, and there are growing calls for this genuine health care crisis to be properly addressed.
Doctors caring for patients with psoriasis should consider exploring early screening and treatment for comorbidities, while the impact of early intervention cannot be underestimated.
Understanding trends in alcohol consumption via liver disease mortality rates is crucial for targeting resources to reduce alcohol-related harm, writes Associate Professor Michael Livingston.
A recent study shows that mothers with partners who smoke are less likely to breastfeed their babies, suggesting that breastfeeding promotion efforts should target smoking families, and particularly include those with smoking fathers/partners.
The Australian Government is undertaking a raft of measures to improve the wellbeing of young people, but new research shows that a lot more needs to be done to turn around the worrying trends.
Australia’s focus on reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions while seemingly ignoring responsibility for exported emissions is morally wrong.
Before the health workforce is “unleashed”, we must consider what an appropriate governance system might look like that balances autonomy and agency and apply it to everyone working in primary care.
Australia currently has over 100 clinical registries that are increasingly seeking to improve multiple health care and health system issues. Yet greater recognition across sectors of their important role in monitoring and improving health care delivery and population outcomes is needed.
The under-recognition and undertreatment of heavy menstrual bleeding leads to delayed diagnosis, affecting the lives of women across Australia.
