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Prevention as a key aspect of healthcare is probably as old as history. The Focus articles in this issue highlight opportunities for prevention in general practice.
Professional
Primary healthcare, ideally delivered through Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, can play a part in preventing alcohol-related harm in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Clinical
It is critical to identify the physical health needs of people with severe mental illnesses, develop engagement strategies and tailor interventions to the person’s specific circumstances.
Prescribing drugs to reduce the risk of cancer is a new development in primary cancer prevention.
Risk-taking behaviours in adolescents are rarely detected in clinical practice without deliberate assessment within a youth-friendly framework.
To prevent heat-related disease, GPs need to work across prevention levels to mitigate climate change, recognise vulnerable patients, and work with these patients to plan management strategies.
Research
How should GPs and patients prioritise which preventive health activities to undertake?
Editorial
Prevention has been a core focus in Australian primary healthcare since the 1980s.
Letters
Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest.
Case Study
A man aged 35 years with a 14-pack year history of smoking presented to his general practitioner with a 12-month history of progressive dyspnoea.
This paper summarises the updated recommendations from the National Health and Medical Research Council pertaining to colorectal cancer screening so that they may be applied in general practice.
Black salve is promoted as an effective, safe and natural skin cancer treatment, but such claims are not evidence-based, and serious complications have been reported.
Online and digital aids could provide an effective means to help facilitate sexual health discussions with older patients in general practice, provided they are designed with the patient in mind.
Despite being aware of the risks of diabetes in pregnancy, less than half of women with diabetes had sought preconception care, and many had poor knowledge of the most reliable contraceptive methods.
Conflicting advice causes great confusion and/or alarm for pregnant or breastfeeding women, who want the best for their babies.
This paper reviews the literature from the social sciences concerning the social, cultural, political, and economic implications of evidence-based medicine.
AJGP would like to thank all of our 2018 reviewers for their generous contribution to the journal.
Clinical challenge
This clinical challenge is based on this month’s Focus articles. To complete this activity, go to gplearning and log in with the username and password you use to log in to the RACGP website.