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A new Australian study on the mortality gap for people experiencing severe mental health conditions compared with the general population shows that the gap has narrowed. But for psychotic disorders, ...

The MJA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we live and work across Australia. We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were the first ...

The MJA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we live and work across Australia. We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were the first ...

Clinicians play a critical role in medical technology innovation; however, structured training in this discipline is lacking in Australia. We propose that formal education, using well validated ...

For many doctors, retirement isn’t a simple question of age. From mounting workload and burnout to financial readiness and life beyond medicine, the decision to step away from clinical practice is ...

Researchers exploring the relationship between nutrition and brain health say diet is a modifiable determinant of depression and anxiety.

IF you are someone who looks after older patients in residential care facilities, you would be forgiven for not keeping up with all the regulatory changes related to aged care that have occurred over ...

Develop your mental 'detached observer log' for the speech, events etc. This makes it easier to make an actual log of events and coercive speech without flipping into victim state. Notice the drama ...

THE Australian healthcare system – particularly primary and community care – is “not sufficiently equipped to meet the complex health care needs of people with intellectual disability”, according to ...

We are the best value mental health care in the country using less than 3% of the total mental health budget to see the majority of the patients needing community care. Current underfunding added to ...

reduce children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing, which is the wallpaper in their lives, tracking them online, reaching them through sport sponsorship, television and on billboards in their ...