Perspectives

Early detection remains an important strategy to reduce melanoma mortality and improve survival, and novel precision medicine technologies for melanoma diagnosis are rapidly changing this field

Rashidul A Mahumud · Monika Janda · H Peter Soyer · Pablo Fernández‐Peñas · Victoria J Mar · Rachael L Morton

People with long term disability after stroke should have access to the services they need, when they require them

Katharine Scrivener · Catherine Dean · Ian D Cameron · Louise Ada

The burden and costs of potentially inappropriate medications and polypharmacy are major public health challenges, but the effectiveness of deprescribing interventions in routine care remains unclear

Ian A Scott · Emily Reeve · Sarah N Hilmer

Police watch-house detainees have complex health needs that involve multiple agencies and require coordinated, interagency solutions

Julia L Crilly · Caitlin Brandenburg · Stuart A Kinner · Ed Heffernan · Joshua Byrnes · Cathy Lincoln · Paul Gardiner · Peter Davidson · Annabel Somerville · Daniel Wilson · David Green · Stuart Thomas

The obesity epidemic has been escalating for over 30 years, but little attention has been paid to delivery of effective treatments in the public system

Ahmad Aly · Michael L Talbot · Wendy A Brown

Breast cancer commonly causes significant physical and psychological sequelae; guidelines and models of care exist to ameliorate these

Christobel M Saunders · Lesley Stafford · Martha Hickey

MS risk is becoming less of a mystery as we gain a better understanding of its causes

Bruce V Taylor

Without data on access to, or quality of, the care for people with disability, it is impossible to determine drivers of health inequities, and to develop evidence-informed policies to improve care and track progress towards reducing health inequities

Jodie Bailie · Nicola Fortune · Julie Gordon · Richard C Madden · Gwynnyth Llewellyn

Fostering engagement among older patients and families and creating opportunities for decision making about medications are crucial for improved safety and quality across transitions of care

Elizabeth Manias · Carmel Hughes · Robyn E Woodward‐Kron · Christine M Jorm · Guncag Ozavci · Tracey K Bucknall

Assessing a person’s eligibility for VAD is difficult because prognostication is difficult, prognosis is inherently uncertain, and the eligibility criteria are not clearly specified

Sharon H Nahm · Martin R Stockler · Belinda E Kiely

SGLT2 inhibitors show promise in improving metabolic and cardiovascular health in type 1 diabetes, yet ideal candidates for therapy require careful selection

Jennifer R Snaith · Jerry R Greenfield

Many technical and regulatory hurdles have been overcome, but the field has a long way to go

Gabrielle O'Sullivan · Joshua G Philips · John EJ Rasko

With a history of border politics and deterrence strategies underpinning the Australian Government’s refugee and immigration policies, when it comes to refugee and asylum seeker health, politics can no longer be removed from advocacy

Nilanthy Vigneswaran

mRNA vaccine development will continue to accelerate, and further improvements to the technology may mitigate some of the current limitations

Isabella Overmars · George Au‐Yeung · Terence M Nolan · Andrew C Steer

First Nations Yol?u women are speaking up to reclaim control and return of childbirth services

Sarah Ireland · Yvette Roe · Suzanne Moore · Elaine Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama · Dorothy Yuŋgirrŋa Bukulatjpi · Evelyn Djota Bukulatjpi · Sue Kildea

The convergence of excessive heat, poor housing, energy insecurity and chronic disease has reached critical levels

Simon Quilty · Norman Frank Jupurrurla · Ross S Bailie · Russell L Gruen

The current lack of a national strategy for Indigenous adolescent health in Australia is a glaring gap

Seth Westhead · Quinton Appleby · Brittney Andrews · Tina Brodie · Alex Brown · Karla Canuto · Josh Cooke · Mahlia Garay · Thomas Harrington · Djai Hunter · Corey Kennedy · Jaeda Lenoy · Olivia Lester · Hannah McCleary · Odette Pearson · Lorraine Randall · Rachel Reilly · Hamish Rose · Daniel Rosendale · Jakirah Telfer · Peter Azzopardi

No consensus on research skills in medical curricula perpetuates the unmet need for clinician researchers

Diann S Eley · Wendy Hu · Nicholas J Talley

Health practitioners have the opportunity to contribute their expertise to help reduce the health consequences of climate disasters across the prevention, preparedness, response and recovery phases of disaster management

Sotiris Vardoulakis · Veronica Matthews · Ross S Bailie · Wenbiao Hu · Luis Salvador‐Carulla · Alexandra L Barratt · Cordia Chu

Dynamic consent has the potential to facilitate personalised medicine delivering on its goals

Liza Goncharov · Hanna Suominen · Matthew Cook

Aspirin and other antithrombotics are proven to be effective in reducing ischaemic stroke recurrence

Thanh G Phan · Benjamin Clissold · Henry Ma

Telestroke is an example of technology facilitating the delivery of time-dependent therapies in regional Australia

Carlos Garcia‐Esperon · Christopher F Bladin · Timothy J Kleinig · Helen Brown · Jennifer J Majersik · Andrew Wesseldine · Kenneth Butcher

High prevalence and associated health care and social costs demand a change in health care paradigms for functional neurological disorders

Elizabeth Pepper · Adith Mohan · Kenneth Butcher · Mark Parsons · Jackie Curtis

Seasonal affective disorder, a well documented syndrome in northern latitudes, has limited credence in Australia

Adriana G Nevarez Flores · Emmanuelle CS Bostock · Amanda L Neil

As the number of requests for raw genomic data increases, policies and protocols reflecting the perspectives of clinicians, patients, researchers and research participants are required

Jane L Nielsen · Carolyn Johnston · Tracey O'Brien · Vanessa J Tyrrell