This issue focuses on cardiovascular diseases and includes articles on cardiac rhythm management devices, assessment and management of chest pain in primary care, and abdominal aortic aneurysms.
A primary care journal such as AJGP will almost inevitably have individual readers who find some articles much more interesting than others.
Access to primary care can be affected by a person's social and environmental situation. Articles in this month’s edition discuss barriers to access and innovative solutions for improving access.
It may be worthwhile for all clinicians to explore the conceptual frameworks that describe access to healthcare.
A large proportion of communicable diseases have an animal origin. The focus articles in this issue cover the more ‘traditional’ zoonotic diseases, which are notifiable in Australia.
General practice as a unique discipline has advanced exponentially, culminating in the formal recognition as a distinct specialty.
Multimorbidity, commonly defined as the co-occurrence of two or more chronic conditions within one person without defining an index chronic condition, has the person, not a disease, as the focus.