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This issue of AJGP highlights key messages from the National Guide to preventive healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Clinical
This article offers guidance for health practitioners on meeting their responsibilities to provide culturally safe care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Information about smoking in the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and RACGPs’ National Guide to Preventive Healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
This article highlights the importance of preconception and pregnancy care provision that is culturally safe and contextually tailored.
Research
This study assessed the effectiveness of a culturally responsive medication management service (referred to as IMeRSe).
Professional
This paper explores respectful community engagement and local co-design in addressing the challenges faced by rural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in accessing healthcare.
AJGP for your CPD
These questions are based on the Focus articles in this issue.
Editorial
Connection to culture, community, language and country is central to maintaining health and wellbeing. This concept does not always align with the biomedical model of health.
Letters
Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest.
The aim of this paper was to summarise the indications and pros and cons of different CVD screening tests to support GPs in managing a patient’s CVD risk.
Case study
A case presentation of a 2-week history of a painful and intensely pruritic rash on various parts of a patient’s body.
A case presentation of a 1-week history of a pink-red ring-shaped lesion on a patient’s left forehead.
This cross-sectional study examined difficulty accessing healthcare, changes experienced in healthcare utilisation and concerns related to healthcare.
Understanding where general practice registrars come from can highlight which institutions are producing higher proportions of graduates entering general practice or rural generalist training.
This article seeks to define burnout and delineate it from similar conditions.
This article examines real-world barriers to CKD screening and detection in Australian primary care and outlines strategies to raise GP and patient awareness.
Viewpoint
GPs’ ongoing community-based patient relationships and primary care expertise uniquely position them to identify and manage loneliness.
The Handbook of Non-Drug interventions (HANDI) is an online formulary of non-drug interventions, enabling GPs to offer to a greater choice of interventions to their patients.
Response to a Viewpoint article about the Handbook of Non-Drug interventions (HANDI).
Book review
Readers express their thoughts on books they have reviewed for AJGP.