Perspectives

Bulk-billing has been a term associated with the success of Medicare, but no longer provides an agreed or meaningful estimate of access to health services

Michael Wright · May Chin

Urban green spaces are dynamic contributors to the wellbeing of our cities, offering benefits to the health of humans, society, and natural and managed ecosystems

Craig Williams · Christie Byrne · Shannon Evenden · Veronica Soebarto · Stefan Caddy‐Retalic · Carmel Williams · Yonatal Tefera · Xiaoqi Feng · Andrew Lowe

Discussion of challenges and recommendations for future Japanese encephalitis scenarios in Australia, including surveillance systems, a national centre for disease control, improved data sharing and increased funding

Caroline K Dowsett · Francesca Frentiu · Gregor J Devine · Wenbiao Hu

Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy was launched in 2023. In this article, we review the development and key features of the Strategy; discuss the expected challenges; and highlight how health care professionals can help.

Georgia Behrens · Madeleine Skellern · Alice McGushin · Paul Kelly · The Hon Ged Kearney

Recognising female-specific risk factors, disparities in diagnosis, and potential treatment and prevention strategies will help to address this challenge

Cheryl Carcel · Kylie Tastula · Amanda Henry

New pathways to address current inequities in Australian cystic fibrosis patients’ access to disease-modifying treatments, including in vitro cell models.

Laura K Fawcett · Shafagh A Waters · Adam Jaffe

Current knowledge and service limitations in treating the complex interplay between eating disorders, gut–brain disorders and motility disorders

Trina Kellar · Chamara Basnayake · Rebecca E Burgell · Michael Kamm · Hannah W Kim · Kate Lane · Kate Murphy · Nicholas J Talley

A look at the latest evidence on long COVID, focusing on viral persistence and the possibility of this as a main driver in long COVID symptoms

Michelle JL Scoullar · Gabriela Khoury · Suman S Majumdar · Emma Tippett · Brendan S Crabb

Two Australian-based Aboriginal-led research teams that facilitate reclamation, reconstitution and restoration of Indigenous Knowledges illustrate nine principles of Indigenous epistemology justice as it relates to Indigenous authorship

Pat Dudgeon (Bardi) · Helen Milroy (Palyku) · Belle Selkirk (Noongar) · Ashleigh Wright (Nunga) · Kahli Regan (Wongi and Noongar) · Shraddha Kashyap · Rama Agung‐Igusti · Joanna Alexi · Abigail Bray · Joan Chan · Ee Pin Chang · Sze Wing Georgiana Cheuk · Jemma Collova · Kate Derry · Chontel Gibson (Gamilaraay)

Using stacked policy-relevant strategies to close the equity gap for children within a generation

For the Changing Children's Chances Investigator Group

To inform future burnout research, we discuss the aetiology, prevalence, distinctiveness, stigmatising character and basic definition of burnout.

Renzo Bianchi · James F Sowden

Harnessing research resources to tackle key health challenges can accelerate implementation and drive new preventive and therapeutic strategies, positively affecting patient and economic outcomes

For the Cardiovascular National Health Leaders Research Forum Writing Group

Based on current evidence, social media is unlikely to be the primary cause of rising mental health problems among young people; we should instead focus on the broader ongoing societal issues of misogyny, violence, racism and discrimination

Helen Christensen · Aimy Slade · Alexis E Whitton

Proposal of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent model of primary health care that focuses on health and wellbeing needs

Stephen Harfield · Peter Azzopardi · Gita D Mishra · James S Ward