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“If you build it, they will come”: the convergence of funding, research and collaboration in paediatric brain cancer clinical trials
Bridging gaps in paediatric brain cancer trials through strategic funding, research and global collaboration.
Jordan Hansford · Santosh Valvi · Jasper Boer · Geoff McCowage · Dinisha Govender · Maria Kirby · David Ziegler · Neevika Manoharan · Timothy Hassall · Brandon Wainwright · Frank Alvaro · Paul J Wood · David Eisenstat · Dong Anh Khuong Quang · Misty Jenkins · Matthew Dun · Stephen J Laughton · Raelene Endersby · Andrew Dodgshun · Nicholas Gottardo
Young voices, healthy futures: the rationale for lowering the voting age to 16
Lowering the voting age to 16 years would empower young people and the political system to address inequities and build an inclusive society that promotes wellbeing
Kevin Kapeke · Planning Saw · Edward Krutsch · Claudia Burgner · Hannah Pitt · Ravin Desai · Khalid Muse · Jennifer Rowan · Charlize Nalupta · Judith Bessant · Susan M Sawyer · Sara Wardak
Wellbeing, participation and connection in the middle years of childhood
Children in middle childhood should be visible, valued and included across community life; their health and wellbeing now and into the future depends on it
Sharon Bessell · Tim Moore · Gerry Redmond
Participation of Indigenous children and young people to improve health and wellbeing
Society must not only uphold Indigenous children and young people’s rights, but also value their strengths and the expertise they hold about their own lives
Jordan Cory (Kamilaroi) · Hope Kuchel (Barkindji) · Bonnie Dukakis (Gunditjmara) · Rhian Dicker (Palawa) · Sandra Eades (Noongar)
Co‐designing integrated child and family hubs for families experiencing adversity
Participatory approaches to health service design, involving genuine partnerships with children, young people and families, are feasible with sufficient investment in resource and workforce skills
Alicia Montgomery · Suzy Honniset · Teresa Hall · Santuri Rungan · Ally Drinkwater · Rebecca Bosward · Tammy Meyers Morris · Huei Ming Liu · Valsamma Eapen · John Eastwood · Raghu Lingam · Harriet Hiscock · Susan Woolfenden · Sharon R Goldfeld
Five decades of debate on burnout
To inform future burnout research, we discuss the aetiology, prevalence, distinctiveness, stigmatising character and basic definition of burnout.
Renzo Bianchi · James F Sowden
The national Cardiovascular Health Leadership Research Forum: a new data‐driven model placing research at the centre of improving patient outcomes
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
Custodial dermatology for First Nations peoples: a niche service caring for incarcerated communities
To address skin health of First Nations children and adults in prison, a First Nations-led dermatology clinic is addressing the right to equitable health care.
Dana RML Slape (Larrakia) · Penelope A Abbott · Kelvin M Kong (Worimi)
Redrawing Australia's next National Health Reform Agreement: confronting the wickedest of wicked problems
Seven major policy barriers to overcome for successful reform of the health system under the next National Health Reform Agreement.
Claire L Jackson
An allied health model of care for long COVID rehabilitation
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is the most effective solution to improve quality of life for patients with long COVID
Joanne M Wrench · Leigh R Seidel Marks
Social media: the root cause of rising youth self‐harm or a convenient scapegoat?
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
An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent model of primary health care
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
Implementability and impact in clinical research and the role of clinical trial networks
A framework for planning, design and reporting of clinical trials, to optimise implementability
Helena J Teede · Karen Best · Frank H Bloomfield · Alan Cass · Paul Cohen · Sue Crengle · Tiffany Harris‐Brown · Stephen Jan · David W Johnson · Samantha Keogh · Anne McKenzie · Philippa Middleton · Sandra Peake · Hashim Periyalil · Paul A Scuffham · Angela Scheppokat · Greg R Sharplin · Steve Webb
Towards evidence‐based skin checks
Discussion of a more evidence-based approach to skin checks, including who to target for skin checks, what type of skin check, how often, the clinical setting, and resources, costs and quality frameworks
Linda K Martin · Pascale Guitera · Georgina V Long · Richard A Scolyer · Anne E Cust
Pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period: opportunities to improve lifetime outcomes for women with non‐communicable diseases
There is potential to improve outcomes among women by taking a life-course approach that integrates care and prevention of non-communicable diseases with sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care.
Jenny A Ramson · Myfanwy J Williams · Bosede B Afolabi · Stephen Colagiuri · Kenneth W Finlayson · Bianca Hemmingsen · Kartik K Venkatesh · Doris Chou
Australia's Remote Vocational Training Scheme: training and supporting general practitioners in rural, remote and First Nations communities
The RVTS grows and sustains doctors already working in rural, remote and First Nations communities for three to four years while they progress towards general practice and rural generalist fellowship
Patrick Giddings · Belinda G O'Sullivan · Matthew R McGrail · Marlene Drysdale · Tony T Trevaskis · Jacki Mein
Cost barriers to medication access in Australia: an analysis of the Patient Experience Survey in context
Medicines are less affordable for women, the ill, the young, and the socio-economically disadvantaged
Narcyz Ghinea
30/60/90 National stroke targets and stroke unit access for all Australians: it's about time
Australia’s stroke treatment performance has stagnated. A well targeted national quality improvement effort is required
For the 30/60/90 National Stroke Targets Taskforce
Leave no‐one behind: reducing health disparities for women experiencing homelessness in Australia
Poor health outcomes and barriers to health care access are underscored by the struggles of homelessness itself, along with many social determinants of health, including trauma, poverty and social exclusion
Lisa J Wood · Rhiannon C Villiers
Pharmaceuticals in pregnancy: a multifaceted challenge in Australia
Pregnant women face barriers to pharmaceutical trial participation, and a conservative drug safety categorisation system
Stefan C Kane · Renuka Shanmugalingam · Amanda Henry
Calling time on the use of modified‐release opioids for acute pain
New Australian guidelines strongly recommend against prescription of modified-release opioids for patients with acute pain
Pamela E Macintyre · Melissa A Jamcotchian · Jennifer A Stevens
Should medical eponyms continue to be used in everyday practice?
Medical nomenclature should ideally describe the pathophysiological processes or clinical criteria relevant to the entity being defined
Leya Nedumannil · Diana Lewis
Using conversant artificial intelligence to improve diagnostic reasoning: ready for prime time?
Artificial intelligence chatbots have the potential to assist clinicians in diagnosing complex cases
Ian A Scott · Tim Miller · Carmel Crock
The loneliness epidemic: a holistic view of its health and economic implications in older age
The loneliness epidemic affecting older people is a costly public health concern
Lidia Engel · Cathrine Mihalopoulos
The challenges of malaria elimination in the Asia–Pacific region
The Asia–Pacific region is progressing towards malaria elimination, but there are significant roadblocks to overcome
Freya JI Fowkes · Leanne J Robinson · Julie A Simpson · Kamala Thriemer · Moses Laman · Win Han Oo