Editorials

More expensive treatment options do not always achieve better outcomes

Andreas Loefler

Comprehensive application of the Safe System approach is needed to protect vulnerable road users

Raphael H Grzebieta · Jake Olivier · Soufiane Boufous

The significant benefits for patients and hospitals of reduced testing can be achieved without compromising safety

Jonathan Christiansen

Beyond its role in therapy, FMT is providing insights into the importance of intestinal microbiota in health and disease

Lawrence J Brandt

Overseas experience offers insights into providing sustainable health care for remote communities

Roger P Strasser

A new approach better informs women and doctors about what assisted reproductive technologies can achieve in 2017

Stephen J Robson · Caroline M de Costa

Australian toxinology can contribute more to helping tropical developing countries where snakebites are a serious problem

David A Warrell

It must be — as an essential component of the response to the antimicrobial drug resistance problem

Martin Gulliford · Mark Ashworth

Explicit training in appropriate decision making about pathology test ordering should be provided early

Justin J Beilby

Tackling the clinical, social, cultural, communication, and research determinants of health together

Geoff Thompson · Nicholas J Talley · Kelvin M Kong

Government recognition is an important step: action is needed

Michael G Marmot

Time, money and commitment are needed to increase the value of medical research — and to respect participants

for the CREATE Methods Group

Using arts-based methods may extend communicative and symbolic resources to bridge the Indigenous health communication gap

Alison Phipps

Clarifying the type of support needed by people with a psychiatric disability must be a priority

Harvey A Whiteford

We are still seriously failing to resource and integrate mental health into the mainstream of the health care system

Patrick D McGorry · Matthew P Hamilton

We need clinicians prepared for work in a system of integrated, person-centred, affordable health care

Richard B Murray · Andrew Wilson

The safety of our older citizens can be improved by targeting known risk factors

Catherine Yelland

Burns are a specific health burden, but understanding the detail is vital to finding solutions

Roy M Kimble · Bronwyn R Griffin

The findings of the National Eye Health Survey are encouraging, but also identify areas for improvement

Paul Mitchell

The key to finding solutions for brain disorders is cooperation and collaboration from the laboratory to the clinic

Kay L Double · Linda J Richards

Effective strategies for improving outcomes require efficient triage and interdisciplinary cooperation

Matthew C Kiernan

Appropriate risk adjustment of stroke outcome data is needed for assessing and ensuring quality of care

Graeme J Hankey

The ASID perspective on the most important infectious diseases problem of 2017 and beyond

Cheryl A Jones · Joshua S Davis · David FM Looke

Awareness of the problem is the first step towards control

David CB Lye

Mind and body are intimately linked, in health and in disease

Alexander C McFarlane