General practitioners are frontline workers for psychological medicine. This issue presents the latest updates on mental health topics relevant to general practice.
This article outlines the features and prevalence of climate distress, as well as approaches for assessment and management based on current evidence and theory.
This reference book is designed to be used to find medication doses and guidance for other management easily and promptly.
Lifestyle medicine has arisen as a relatively new (adjunct) discipline to assist conventional approaches to clinical care in dealing with lifestyle and environmental disease.
Lifestyle medicine adds to conventional medicine by closely examining environmental and distal determinants and individual behaviours that influence disease.
This paper quantifies the burden of high psychological distress in primary carers of Australians with disability and identifies modifiable factors to improve mental healthcare in this population.
Accurate diagnosis and treatment of diving-related otological injuries by general practitioners can have profound positive effects on a patient’s long-term outcomes.
This article assists physicians through the work-up and management of dysphagia.
This article discusses the mental and physical health consequences of sleep disorders in shift workers and highlights the need to consider undiagnosed sleep disorders in shift workers.
Australians want to exercise more, but change can be challenging. Persistent, gentle, evidence-based support can help these resolutions become reality.
This article focuses on the assessment and management of sport-related concussion in general practice, including guidance for returning patients to sport.
This article describes an approach to the assessment and management of the common presentations of acute cervical spine pain.
This article aims to provide an overview of evidence-based assessment, management and referral options for insomnia in Australian general practice.