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Environmental health
Beyond the silver bullet: closing the equity gap for children within a generation
Using stacked policy-relevant strategies to close the equity gap for children within a generation
For the Changing Children's Chances Investigator Group
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
Safeguarding the health and wellbeing of transgender young people
Trans youth are an increasingly marginalised population; action must be taken to safeguard their health
Carmen Pace · Alessandra Chinsen · Ada S Cheung · S. Rachel Skinner · Ken W Knight · Michelle A Tollit · Michelle M Telfer · Ken C Pang
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)
The association of child protection contact with mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents, and their costs
Lack of timely and appropriate community-based mental health care probably leads to more hospitalisations during mental health crises
Paul Hotton
Assessing the adequacy and sustainability of the Northern Territory health workforce with respect to burden of disease and injury, 2009–2021: an analysis of administrative data
Shortages in the NT health workforce must be eliminated to close health gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Yuejen Zhao · Jo Wright · Renu Unnikrishnan · Ramakrishna Chondur · Danielle Green
Cerebral palsy in Australia: birth prevalence, 1995–2016, and differences by residential remoteness: a population-based register study
The declining birth prevalence of cerebral palsy reflects the effects of advances in maternal and perinatal care and other public health interventions
the ACPR Group
Mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole‐of‐population descriptive study
The role of trauma associated with a history of child protection should be considered when adolescents are hospitalised with mental health conditions
Jessica Judd · Rhiannon M Pilkington · Catia Malvaso · Alexandra M Procter · Alicia Montgomerie · Jemma JA Anderson · Jon N Jureidini · Julie Petersen · John Lynch · Catherine R Chittleborough
Management of people after stroke in 383 Victorian general practices, 2014–2018: analysis of linked stroke registry and general practice data
The general practice management of people who have been hospitalised with stroke or TIA could be improved
Muideen T Olaiya · Joosup Kim · Christopher Pearce · Kiran Bam · Dominique A Cadilhac · Nadine E Andrew · Lauren M Sanders · Amanda G Thrift · Mark R Nelson · Seana Gall · Monique F Kilkenny
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
Long COVID in Victoria
Almost five years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still major gaps in our knowledge as to the pathophysiology, treatment and prognosis of long COVID
David A Watters · Lance Emerson
Living with long COVID and its impact on family and society: a couple's view
Long COVID affects society in many ways, including the workforce and voluntary roles
Karlie M Flannigan · Gerard M Flannigan
Persistent symptoms after COVID‐19: an Australian stratified random health survey on long COVID
Improved community understanding of long COVID is required, and health systems need to develop clear pathways for treating patients, especially for those with persistent impairment
Alex Holmes · Lance Emerson · Louis B Irving · Emma Tippett · Jeffrey M Pullin · Julie Young · David A Watters · Adina Hamilton
Environmental footprinting in health care: a primer
Environmental sustainability should be considered as a dimension of quality, safety and good governance alongside patient and population health outcomes
Jacob Fry · Angie Bone · Keiichiro Kanemoto · Carolynn L Smith · Nick Watts
The economic burden of long COVID in Australia: more noise than signal?
Regular, high quality surveillance data are an essential but lacking ingredient in Australia’s policy response to long COVID
Mary Rose Angeles · Thi Thu Ngan Dinh · Ting Zhao · Barbara Graaff · Martin Hensher
Changes in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in Australia, 2005–2019, overall and by socio‐demographic characteristics: a population‐based study
The incidence of type 2 diabetes in Australian adults declined during 2010–2019 across all age, sex, socio-economic disadvantage, and remoteness groups
Dianna J Magliano · Lei Chen · Jedidiah I Morton · Oyunchimeg Buyadaa · Agus Salim · Jonathan E Shaw
A rise in Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections in Victoria in late 2023 and early 2024 detected at two major testing laboratories
The number of M. pneumoniae infections in Victoria began increasing in October 2023, but no signals for greater disease severity were detected
Maryza Graham · Thomas Tran · Changxu Zhang · Michelle Sam · Andrew Daley · Kathy Jackson · Chuan Kok Lim
Planetary care is good cancer care
Nikki Burdett · Ben Dunne
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
Recruitment and retention of new doctors in remote and Aboriginal medical services through the Remote Vocational Training Scheme's Targeted Recruitment Strategy: a focus group study
The Targeted Recruitment Strategy is a proactive collaborative approach to attract and support doctors to train as general practitioners in high need rural and remote areas
Belinda G O'Sullivan · Veeraja Uppal · Ronda Gurney · Patrick Giddings
Perceived stakeholder benefits of continuously training general practitioners in the same rural or remote practice: interviews exploring the Remote Vocational Training Scheme
The RVTS model of training doctors continuously in the same practice improves access to safe and high quality longitudinal care and contributes to service enhancements in rural, remote and First Nations communities that otherwise lack stable doctors
Belinda G O'Sullivan · Patrick Giddings · Matthew R McGrail
Lessons learnt from the first two SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in six remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective epidemiological review
Co-designed, collaborative partnerships between local councils, community-controlled health services, state health services and public health units likely had a positive impact on the management and outcomes of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities
Allison Hempenstall · Barbara Telfer · Sean Cowley · Shalomie Shadrach · Caroline Taunton · Jay Short · Nicolas Smoll · Roy Rasalam · Oscar Whitehead · Peter Roach · Karen Koko · Josh Stafford · Rittia Matysek · Renarta Whitcombe · Gulam Khandaker · Jason King · Nishila Moodley · Maree Finney · Rica Lacey · Steven Donohue · Richard Gair · Katie Panaretto
Intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion: cross‐sectional study of women attending a Perth sexual health clinic, 2019–20
Effective screening programs are needed to recognise, respond to, and refer for support people at risk of intimate partner violence
Mariana Galrao · Catherine B Brooker · Alison Creagh · Richelle Douglas · Sarah Smith
