Prevention has been a core focus in Australian primary healthcare since the 1980s.
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.
Palliative care has progressed from the margins to having a key role and responsibility within the discipline of general practice.
Continuity of care is an integral part of quality healthcare. Focus articles this month discuss issues and challenges for continuity of care in the current health system.
Strategies to support continuity of care between patients and GPs should be encouraged.
As medical practitioners situated on the forefront of primary care, general practitioners play a crucial part in limiting injury through the use of prevention strategies.
The Focus articles in this issue highlight the diagnosis and management of neurological conditions in general practice.
The Focus articles presented in AJGP this month raise issues about the future role and function of the general practice workforce in Australia.
In order to maintain some of the best population health outcomes in the world, what type of workforce should we aspire to?
Improvements in perinatal outcomes and intergenerational health can be achieved by optimising the maternal environment before conception, during pregnancy and in the first two years of a child’s life.
This issue focuses on women’s health and includes articles on human papillomavirus testing and vaccination, preconception care, recurrent miscarriage, gestational diabetes mellitus and pelvic pain.
GPs are integral to the implementation of the substantial evidence-based changes associated with the renewed National Cervical Screening Program.
Evidence-based medicine has been the driver of healthcare research and changes in general practice.