Editorials

We must consider how structural inequities, such as housing availability and affordability, lack of adequate social protection, and marginalisation from health systems, may further entrench disadvantage in the face of long COVID

Kanta Subbarao

Older patients may never need kidney replacement therapy, but their other medical conditions require attention

Kevan R Polkinghorne · Peter G Kerr

Women with symptomatic macromastia need relief from a condition that can seriously impair their quality of life

Elisabeth Elder

Improved, integrated care for older patients with complex medical needs could avert some modifiable causes of readmission

Bethany Stavert · Sarah Aitken

We need strength and courage to live with COVID-19, and still more to overcome chronic social and planetary neglect

Nicholas J Talley

Knowledge about the composition and physiological effects of e-liquids is essential for assessing their effects on health

Ira N Advani · Mario Perez · Laura E Crotty Alexander

Australians have been challenged in many ways over the past two years: some more than others

Nicholas J Talley

Influenza vaccination for travellers and the resources mobilised during the COVID-19 pandemic could mitigate the effects of an influenza resurgence

Sheena G Sullivan

Despite limits to its clinical value, the potential benefi ts for women should not be overlooked

Belinda E Kiely · Annabel Goodwin

We cannot let complacency encumber how we live with the virus: vigilance and a planned recovery are essential

Stephen J Duckett · Brett Sutton

Given the limitations of our resources, we need well planned processes for optimising health care should demand exceed capacity

Raymond Raper

We must acknowledge the magnitude of the problem and show some urgency in implementing reform

Patrick D McGorry

The threat of climate change is immediate and grave, and now is the time to act

Hugh Montgomery · Fintan Hughes

Self-collection will facilitate new community-led, co-designed delivery models that could greatly increase the acceptability and uptake of screening

Karen Canfell · Megan A Smith · Deborah J Bateson

Identifying inequity of access and assessing the effectiveness of interventions is difficult without systematic abortion data collection

Caroline M Costa · Kirsten I Black

Powerful new automated tools are being developed to identify the women most likely to have an existing or future cancer

John L Hopper · Tuong Linh Nguyen

Scaling up the treatment of alcohol problems will lead to considerable health benefit across the nation

Paul S Haber · Benjamin C Riordan · Kirsten C Morley

Consistent national mental health policy and planning are needed to adequately care for their special needs

John Allan

A national education program would facilitate achieving the full potential of highly effective curative therapies

Paul J Clark

Women with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes remain understudied and undertreated

Carlo Andrea Pivato · Birgit Vogel · Roxana Mehran

Collaboration and education are critical to understanding and managing this mounting public health problem

Elliot Freeman · Stuart K Roberts

Wealthy nations must do much more, much faster

Lukoye Atwoli · Abdullah H Baqui · Thomas Benfield · Raffaella Bosurgi · Fiona Godlee · Stephen Hancocks · Richard C Horton · Laurie Laybourn‐Langton · Carlos A Monteiro · Ian Norman · Kirsten Patrick · Nigel Praities · Marcel GM Olde Rikkert · Eric J Rubin · Peush Sahni · Richard SW Smith · Nicholas J Talley · Sue Turale · Damián Vázquez

Patient survival is more likely when general practitioners and their staff are trained in resuscitation and equipped with defibrillators

Siobhán Masterson · Tomás Barry