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Making climate change a national health priority: Australia's first National Health and Climate Strategy

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

Med J Aust 2024; 222 (2): n/a-n/a

Research

Patient and carer experiences of hospital‐based hybrid virtual medical care: a qualitative study

Anna E Thompson, Tim Shaw, Shannon Nott, Andrew Wilson and Emily Saurman

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S22-S27 Free

Letter to the editor

Defining the gap, emphasising the deficit

Bridie Mulholland

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 631-632 Free

Research

An economic evaluation of the Virtual Rural Generalist Service versus usual care in Western NSW Local Health District

Amy Von Huben, Anna E Thompson, Andrew Wilson, Georgina M Luscombe, Amelia Haigh, Kirsten Howard, Emily Saurman, Tim Shaw, Georgia Wingfield, Amanda J Ampt and Shannon Nott

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S28-S36 Free

Letter to the editor

The New South Wales Pharmacy Trial for herpes zoster: on the nose?

Christian P Pappas, Timothy R Holmes and Minas T Coroneo

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 632-632 Free

Research

Barriers, facilitators and next steps for sustaining and scaling virtual hospital services in Australia: a qualitative descriptive study

Nicki Newton, Kavisha Shah, Miranda Shaw, Emma Charlston, Melissa T Baysari, Angus Ritchie, Chenyao Yu, Adam Johnston, Jagdev Singh, Meredith Makeham, Sarah Norris, Liliana Laranjo, Clara K Chow and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S37-S48 Free

Perspective

The Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a hybrid virtual model of care designed to improve health access and outcomes in rural and remote communities

Shannon Nott, Georgia Wingfield, Amelia Haigh, Georgina M Luscombe, Anna E Thompson, Emily Saurman, Tim Shaw, Amy Von Huben, Kirsten Howard and Andrew Wilson

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S3-S7 Free

Research

Defining a core set of research and development priorities for virtual care in the post‐pandemic environment: a call to action

Kavisha Shah, Nicki Newton, Emma Charlston, Miranda Shaw, Jagdev Singh, Adam Johnston, Owen Hutchings, Chenyao Yu, Pearl Wang, Aaron Jones, Angus Ritchie, Rebecca Davis, Fiona Robinson, Jennifer A Alison, Melissa T Baysari, Meredith Makeham, Sarah Norris, Liliana Laranjo, Emma Nicholls, Clara K Chow and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S49-S56 Free

Research

Health service access and quality of care provided by the Western NSW Local Health District Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a retrospective analysis of linked administrative data

Georgina M Luscombe, Andrew Wilson, Amanda J Ampt, Amy Von Huben, Kirsten Howard, Clare Coleman, Georgia Wingfield and Shannon Nott

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S8-S15 Free

Editorial

A Northern Territory‐trained health workforce is required to meet its context‐specific disease burden and health care needs

Dominic Upton and Varunika Ruwanpura

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 594-595 Free

Research

Clinician experiences of a hybrid virtual medical service supporting rural and remote hospitals: a qualitative study

Anna E Thompson, Emily Saurman, Shannon Nott, Andrew Wilson and Tim Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): S16-S21 Free

Research

Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2003–2022: retrospective analysis of Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry data

Emily Nehme, David Anderson, Ross Salathiel, Anthony Carlyon, Dion Stub, Peter A Cameron, Andrew Wilson, Sile Smith, John J McNeil and Ziad Nehme

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 603-611 Free

Perspective

The equitable challenges to quality use of modulators for cystic fibrosis in Australia

Laura K Fawcett, Shafagh A Waters and Adam Jaffe

Med J Aust 2024; (1): n/a-n/a

Perspective

Co‐designing integrated child and family hubs for families experiencing adversity

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 and Sharon R Goldfeld

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S41-S47 Free

Research

Management of people after stroke in 383 Victorian general practices, 2014–2018: analysis of linked stroke registry and general practice data

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 and Monique F Kilkenny

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 546-553 Free

Research

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

Yuejen Zhao, Jo Wright, Renu Unnikrishnan, Ramakrishna Chondur and Danielle Green

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 596-602 Free

Research letter

Medicare‐subsidised mental health service use during the first 15 years of life in New South Wales: a population cohort study

Oliver J Watkeys, Kimberlie Dean, Kristin R Laurens, Vaughan J Carr and Melissa J Green

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 554-557 Free

Consensus statement

The Future Healthy Countdown 2030 consensus statement: core policy actions and measures to achieve improvements in the health and wellbeing of children, young people and future generations

Kate Lycett, Hannah Lane, Georgie Frykberg, Susan Maury, Carolyn Wallace, Luisa Taafua, Bernie Morris, Anne Hollonds, Pasi Sahlberg, Kevin Kapeke, Ngiare Brown, Jordan Cory, Peter D Sly, Craig A Olsson, Fiona J Stanley, Anna M H Price, Planning Saw, Khalid Muse, Peter S Azzopardi, Susan M Sawyer, Rebecca Glauert, Marketa Reeves, Roslyn Dundas, Sandro Demaio, Rosemary Calder and Sharon R Goldfeld

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S6-S17 Free

Perspective

Young voices, healthy futures: the rationale for lowering the voting age to 16

Kevin Kapeke, Planning Saw, Edward Krutsch, Claudia Burgner, Hannah Pitt, Ravin Desai, Khalid Muse, Jennifer Rowan, Charlize Nalupta, Judith Bessant, Susan M Sawyer and Sara Wardak

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S18-S22 Free

Perspective

Wellbeing, participation and connection in the middle years of childhood

Sharon Bessell, Tim Moore and Gerry Redmond

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S23-S25 Free

Guideline

Guidelines for the design and implementation of youth participation initiatives to safeguard mental health and wellbeing

Kailin Guo, Danica Meas, Dominik Mautner, Fulin Yan, Imeelya Al‐Hadaya, Amarina Donohoe‐Bales, Lily Teesson, Stephanie R Partridge, Magenta B Simmons, Mariam Mandoh, Emma L Barrett, Maree R Teesson, Scarlett Smout and Marlee Bower

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S34-S40 Free

Research

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

Jessica Judd, Rhiannon M Pilkington, Catia Malvaso, Alexandra M Procter, Alicia Montgomerie, Jemma JA Anderson, Jon N Jureidini, Julie Petersen, John Lynch and Catherine R Chittleborough

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 540-545 Free

Reflection

Living with long COVID and its impact on family and society: a couple's view

Karlie M Flannigan and Gerard M Flannigan

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S10-S11 Free

Perspective

The national Cardiovascular Health Leadership Research Forum: a new data‐driven model placing research at the centre of improving patient outcomes

Gemma A Figtree, Kerry Doyle, Lee Nedkoff, Dominique A Cadilhac and Jason Kovacic, For the Cardiovascular National Health Leaders Research Forum Writing Group

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 452-456 Free

Research

Persistent symptoms after COVID‐19: an Australian stratified random health survey on long COVID

Alex Holmes, Lance Emerson, Louis B Irving, Emma Tippett, Jeffrey M Pullin, Julie Young, David A Watters and Adina Hamilton

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S12-S17 Free