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Global health
Dousing the burning inequity of global warming for people experiencing homelessness
People experiencing homelessness face disproportionate risks from extreme heat, with higher rates of heat-related hospital admissions compared with housed populations
Timothy English · Alejandro Vásquez Hernández · Glenn Miller · Nuala Fogarty · Charles Cosgrove · Paul Rosenthal · Matthew Larkin · Jon Swain · Danielle Austin · Jo River
The contribution of evidence‐based practice and the practice‐based evidence approaches to contemporary Australian psychology: implications for culturally safe practice
Adopting a broader and more inclusive approach to evidence represents an important step toward addressing the persistent inequities experienced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and diverse communities
Paul Gray (Wiradjuri) · Dawn Darlaston‐Jones · Pat Dudgeon AM (Bardi) · Kate Derry · Joanna Alexi · William Smith (Wiradjuri and Wemba Wemba) · Tanja Hirvonen (Jaru and Bunuba) · David Badcock · Shraddha Kashyap · Belle Selkirk (Noongar)
Explaining risk in chronic conditions: the Yolŋu science of signs
Health practitioners should examine their communication practices seeking to replace terms that cause harm, such as “risk”, to ensure a safe environment for health decision making
Emma Haynes · Alison Mitchell · Minitja Marawili (Yolŋu) · Dawn C Bessarab (Bardi)
Is it time to retire the label “CALD” in public health research and practice?
Sabine Allida · Della Maneze
Fulfilling First Nations health, cultural safety and equity accreditation standards in primary medical education: reflections from a First Nations desktop review team
An Aboriginal desktop review team evaluated the preliminary self-assessments of primary medical education providers to gauge how they are currently positioned to meet the new standards pertaining to First Nations health, cultural safety, and equity
Paul Saunders · Nicole Mercer · Maria Mackay · Ian Lee · Madelyne Hudson‐Buhagiar · Miriam Cavanagh · Emma Milliss · Melody Muscat · Kathleen Martin · Adam Shipp · Melissa Johnson · Belinda Gibb
What do Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory value during the operation journey? A qualitative study
Integrating culturally informed, patient-centred care models that prioritise respect and trust building is essential to improving accessibility, experience and surgical outcomes
Edith B Waugh · Marita Hefler · Sophie Pascoe · Mark Mayo · Matthew JL Hare · David A Story · Neil Wilkshire · Peter Henwood · David Croker · Jampijinpa Ross
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us
The nuclear taboo gains strength from recognition of compelling evidence of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war, its severe global climatic and famine consequences, and the impossibility of any effective humanitarian response
Kamran Abbasi · Parveen Ali · Virginia Barbour · Marion Birch · Inga Blum · Peter Doherty · Andy Haines · Ira Helfand · Richard C Horton · Kati Juva · José Florencio F Lapeña · Robert Mash · Olga Mironova · Arun Mitra · Carlos A Monteiro · Elena N Naumova · David Onazi · Tilman A Ruff · Peush Sahni · James Tumwine · Carlos Umaña · Paul Yonga · Chris Zielinski
Physician advocacy, international humanitarian law, and the protection of health care workers in conflict zones
International humanitarian law in its current form cannot be relied upon as the sole mechanism of prevention and response to attacks on health care in conflict zones
Irma Bilgrami · Christopher Guy · Vanessa Carnegie · Sandra Lussier
Cultural safety, the LGBTQI+ community and international medical graduate training
Lack of knowledge and skills puts clinicians at risk of causing harm to patients and for consequent avoidance of the health system by LGBQTI+ communities
Cindy Towns · Charlene Rapsey · Rhea Liang
Management challenges and prognostic uncertainties in heat‐induced acute liver failure
A 26-year-old man with central obesity (body mass index, 32.7 kg/m2) and a history of drinking up to 22 standard drinks over weekends, collapsed 5 minutes following a 5 km run in hot and humid conditions in Brisbane, Australia
Nicholas Smith · Richard Skoien · Melita Andelkovic
Closing the gap in kidney disease: validating the reporting of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identification in a clinical quality registry using linked data
Integrating data to improve equity metrics in ANZDATA, including ethnicity and cultural identity, is vital for improving the health of Indigenous people
Heather J Baldwin · Nicole De La Mata · Grant Sara · Faye McMillan · Brett Biles · Jianyun Wu · Paul Lawton · Stephen McDonald · Angela C Webster
Human case of diphyllobothriasis in Australia
In 2024, a 30-year-old female resident of Melbourne, Australia, with no past medical history presented to the Royal Melbourne Hospital
Sadid F Khan · Anson V Koehler · Alistair Tinson · Maidhili Chinnappan · Harsha Sheorey · Robin B Gasser
Urban green space provision: the case for policy‐based solutions to support human health
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
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants admitted to the Hunter New England neonatal intensive care unit, 2016-2021: a retrospective medical record audit
Effective strategies for culturally safe NICU care, including localised approaches, requires further research
Jessica Bennett · Michelle Kennedy · Jamie Bryant · Amanual Mersha · Larissa Korostenski · Michelle Stubbs · Justine Parsons · Luke Wakely
Decolonisation, Indigenous health research and Indigenous authorship: sharing our teams’ principles and practices
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)
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
Towards a best practice framework for eHealth with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — important characteristics of eHealth interventions: a narrative review
Foundational qualities of culturally safe and sustainable eHealth interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
the eHRCATSIH Group
Implementing the cultural determinants of health: our knowledges and cultures in a health system that is not free of racism
Systemic racism and its structural biases and institutional impediments must be addressed to implement the cultural determinants of health
Carmen Parter (Murrana, Juru and Darumbal Clans of Birra Gubba Nation with South Sea Islander heritage from Tanna Island of the Republic of Vanuatu) · Donna Murray (Wiradyuri Wonnarua) · Romlie Mokak (Djugun; member of Yawuru people) · Karl Briscoe (Kuku Yalanji) · Richard Weston (Meriam) · Janine Mohamed (Nurungga Kaurna)
Fulfilling cultural safety expectations in specialist medical education and training: considerations for colleges to advance recognition and quality
Colleges must direct efforts to centre the development of critical allyship to support Indigenous peoples
Paul Saunders
Optimisation during transition to dialysis commencement
Social and cultural determinants of health and health care are patient-important factors navigated by many families and communities accessing excellence in health support for dialysis-requiring kidney failure
Paayal Naidu · Onika Paolucci (Muran‐Iwaidja) · Relma Luta (Kaurareg) · Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)
Evaluation of the Cultural, Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program with Aboriginal women in the Boronia Pre‐Release Centre for Women: a mixed methods study
Improving their social and emotional wellbeing could help reduce the number of Aboriginal people in Australian prisons by reducing recidivism
Pat Dudgeon (Bardi) · Ee Pin Chang · Joan Chan · Carolyn Mascall · Gillian King (Noongar) · Jemma R Collova · Angela Ryder (Noongar)
Psychological safety in medicine: what is it, and who cares?
Psychological safety has remained on the periphery of the health care world
Mina Sarofim
Yarning together: toward targeted, co‐designed parenting programs for Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing must be privileged across all aspects of research in their communities
Simone Sherriff · Josephine D Gwynn
The importance of cultural humility and cultural safety in health care
A call to action: the medical profession should advocate for a culturally inclusive health system
Neda So · Karen Price · Peter O'Mara · Michelle A Rodrigues
Planetary health: a new standard for medical education
Medical education institutions must implement new accreditation standards to equip graduates, trainees and practitioners to respond to the health impacts of climate change
Catherine GA Pendrey · Sonia Chanchlani · Laura J Beaton · Diana L Madden
