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Improving hypertension using virtual modalities

American Nurse

All of these factors can result in less time for preventive health education. In VHA primary care, most of the time available after nurse intake focuses on addressing chronic pain, mental health, and disability ratings. BMC Public Health. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-08831-1 Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

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Almost 1 million Australians are LGBTQIA+ – and for the first time, there’s a new national health plan for them

Nursing Review

Yet in health and wellbeing outcomes particularly mental health this population drags far behind the rest of the country. In early December the government released a landmark ten-year national action plan to address these health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people. Why do we need a dedicated action plan?