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Health services administration
The prevalence of intimate partner violence in Australia: a national survey
The lifetime prevalence of experiencing intimate partner violence is high, especially among women
Ben Mathews · Kelsey L Hegarty · Harriet L MacMillan · Monica Madzoska · Holly E Erskine · Rosana Pacella · James G Scott · Hannah Thomas · Franziska Meinck · Daryl Higgins · David M Lawrence · Divna Haslam · Sara Roetman · Eva Malacova · Timothy Cubitt
The costs and benefits of a prison needle and syringe program in Australia, 2025–30: a modelling study
Each dollar spent on a needle and syringe program in Australian prisons could save $2.60 in treatment costs
Farah Houdroge · Samantha Colledge‐Frisby · Nadine Kronfli · Rebecca J Winter · Joanne Carson · Mark Stoove · Nick Scott
The potential of maternal and child health service data in Australia: how lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic can accelerate data‐informed decision making
A discussion on the possibility and urgency of using linked maternal and child health data, with Victoria and South Australia as case studies, while there is a political window of opportunity for collaborative action
Ashleigh Shipton · Meredith O'Connor · Melissa Wake · Sharon Goldfeld · Helen Lees · Catina Adams · Kristina Edvardsson · Leesa Hooker · Jatender Mohal · Rhiannon M Pilkington · Fiona K Mensah
The 2024 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia emerging as a hotspot for litigation
The next five years are pivotal in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning energy production to renewables; Australia is making progress in this direction, but the remaining deficiencies in Australia’s response to the health and climate change threat must be addressed
Paul J Beggs · Alistair J Woodward · Stefan Trueck · Martina K Linnenluecke · Hilary Bambrick · Anthony G Capon · Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins · Jacqueline Peel · Kathryn Bowen · Ivan C Hanigan · Nicolas Borchers Arriagada · Troy J Cross · Sharon Friel · Donna Green · Maddie Heenan · Ollie Jay · Harry Kennard · Arunima Malik · Celia McMichael · Mark Stevenson · Sotiris Vardoulakis · Aditya Vyas · Marina B Romanello · Maria Walawender · Ying Zhang
Pills, profits, and pollution: accountability for pharmaceuticals‐related greenhouse gas emissions
We must consider why action to reduce pharmaceuticals-related emissions is still so limited
Angie Bone · Nick Watts
Accountability, ambition, and quantifiable action in the carbon emission reduction plans of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies in Australia: a cross‐sectional analysis
The ten largest pharmaceutical companies in Australia are moving towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions at different rates
Hayden Burch · Georgia Brown · Oliver Adler · Jason Wong · Kenneth D Winkel
The oral health care needs of people living in residential aged care, Australia, 2016–20: a retrospective cross-sectional study
Oral health policy and practice reforms are needed to improve the health and wellbeing of aged care residents
Gillian E Caughey · Tracy Air · Miia Rahja · Maria C Inacio
Dismantling barriers to research and clinical care for individuals with a vision impairment
Accessibility in research is an ongoing commitment that will continue to change based on the needs and preferences of the community. We must weigh up the impact of incorporating accessibility practices in research with the social cost of forgoing them
Eden G Robertson · Kate Hetherington · Meredith Prain · Julia Hall · Leighton Boyd AM · Rosemary Boyd OAM · Emily Shepard · Hollie Feller · Sally Karandrews · Fleur O'Hare · Kanae Yamamoto · Matthew P Simunovic · Robyn V Jamieson · Alan Ma · Lauren Ayton AM · Anai Gonzalez‐Cordero
The Fossil Fuel Non‐Proliferation Treaty: what it is, its importance for health, and why Australia should endorse it
Australia’s endorsement of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty could form a critical public health initiative
Philomena Colagiuri · Jake TW Williams · Paul J Beggs · Ying Zhang
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
Is it time to retire the label “CALD” in public health research and practice?
The term “culturally and linguistically diverse” (CALD) is widely used in Australian public health. We discuss the limitations of the term and how it masks distinct needs and experiences of various cultural groups
Ikram Abdi · Adeline Tinessia · Abela Mahimbo · Meru Sheel · Julie Leask
Mandatory research projects by medical specialist trainees: suboptimal today, world‐leading tomorrow?
Our medical colleges in Australia are on the right track by promoting and, preferably, requiring research during specialty training
Nicholas J Talley
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
The impact of pay‐for‐performance incentives for stroke unit access on public hospital costs and use, Queensland, 2012–17: interrupted time series analysis
Improving quality of care without increasing costs or hospital demand, the pay-for-performance program increased value for health care spending
Rohan Grimley · Joosup Kim · Helen M Dewey · Nadine E Andrew · Taya A Collyer · Eleanor S Horton · Greg Cadigan · Dominique A Cadilhac
Improving palliative care for people who use alcohol and other drugs
A discussion of the complexities that arise when people who use alcohol and other drugs require palliative care
Grace FitzGerald · Jon Cook · Peter Higgs · Charles Henderson · Sione Crawford · Thileepan Naren
A future for the hospital‐in‐the‐home (HITH) deteriorating patient: shifting the paradigm
Hospital-in-the-home (HITH) models of care provide sustainable, patient-centred, value-based care; but how can we better recognise deteriorating HITH patients?
Mya Cubitt · Seok Lim
Decentralised COVID‐19 molecular point‐of‐care testing: lessons from implementing a primary care‐based network in remote Australian communities
The First Nations COVID-19 molecular point-of-care (POC) testing program was part of the Australian pandemic response, ensuring equitable testing access and minimising diagnosis delays. To inform future pandemic preparedness, we reviewed the POC framework to provide key recommendations.
Belinda Hengel · Rebecca J Guy · Dawn Casey · Lorraine Anderson · Kirsty Smith · Kelly Andrewartha · Tanya D Applegate · Amit Saha · Philip Cunningham · Lucas DeToca · William D Rawlinson · Marianne Martinello · Annie Tangey · Prital Patel · Mark DS Shephard · Susan Matthews · Louise Causer
Potentially preventable medication‐related hospitalisations with cardiovascular disease of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Queensland, 2013–2017: a retrospective cohort study
Culturally appropriate and more targeted medication safety services are required
Jean Spinks · Gabor Mihala · Warren Jennings · Robert S Ware · Lisa M Kalisch Ellett · Elizabeth E Roughead · Daniel Williamson
The role of GLP‐1 receptor agonists in the management of obesity: risks and opportunities for the Australian health care system
The use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the treatment of obesity has the potential to impact one-third of Australians. This warrants due consideration and planning for future funding models, systems and models of care to ensure equitable access
Christopher Kanellis · Kyle Williams · Darcy Q Holt · Jennifer Wong · Rachel David · Ravi Carothers · Suong Le
Equity first: mapping who gets what is essential to re‐designing the NDIS
People with psychosocial disability or living in lower socio-economic status areas can find it more difficult to gather the evidence required
Jennifer Smith‐Merry · Kyo‐yi J Chang
The impact of differences in bulk‐billing rates: strategies for greater equity in Medicare
Australians find it increasingly difficult to have even their most basic health care needs met
Sebastian P Rosenberg · Ian B Hickie
Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model
The Primary Care Spend model provides a more nuanced analysis of expenditure for primary health care than routine health expenditure reports
Michael Wright · Shona Bates · Andrew W Bazemore · Michael R Kidd
Use of ChatGPT to obtain health information in Australia, 2024: insights from a nationally representative survey
An estimated that 9.9% of Australian adults asked ChatGPT health-related questions in the first half of 2024
Julie Ayre · Erin Cvejic · Kirsten J McCaffery
National Hypertension Taskforce of Australia: a roadmap to achieve 70% blood pressure control in Australia by 2030
Madeleine M Cosgrave · Catherine A Brumby · Matthew A Roberts · Lawrence P McMahon
Is the term bulk‐billing still relevant in today's landscape of health policy reform?
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
