The Strengthening Medicare Report lays the foundation to redesign mental health care around a generalist approach, fundamentally helping reverse Australians’ poor mental health outcomes.
Many medical organisations and health services are working diligently to reduce the enormous scale of burnout and mental injury in doctors, but further action is required to address its impact on doctors’ families, writes Dr Leanne Rowe in part one of this three-part series.
There must be a better approach to measuring a junior doctors’ skills, commitment and knowledge than the current battery of examinations, writes a trainee who obtained the highest clinical examination score at their training hospital.
Patients from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds are at a higher risk of experiencing harm during health care, highlighting the need for clinicians to adapt their approach to better engage with these patients.
With a hot summer expected in Australia, only global action by governments can achieve the society-level change required to tackle climate change.
Four people working in the NT’s Top End share perspectives on the potential impact of the Voice to Parliament on health outcomes for First Nations peoples.
We must listen to the needs of women with endometriosis, tailoring research and associated funding to be able to answer the key questions they have identified as their top priority, write Associate Professor Mike Armour and Dr Cecilia Ng.
There are opportunities to do more to improve the dental health of Australian children, a move that will deliver immediate and long term benefits, as well as diminish the burden of disease.
Veterans are exposed to challenging life circumstances after military service, and Australia’s lax gambling regulations make it too easy for veterans to gamble and fall on hard times, write Sean Cowlishaw, Olivia Metcalf and Nicole Sadler
