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.
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.