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Australian Journal of Primary Health Top Downloads 2022/23

We are very pleased to launch the first of our Virtual Issues as a Collection in the new Continuous Publishing model.

We have gathered the 10 papers from each volume of 2022 and 2023 that have been downloaded most often. These papers demonstrate the scope of the AJPH very well. They cover a range of issues influencing community health services and primary health care, particularly focused on comprehensive primary health care research, evidence-based practice and primary health care policy issues.

There are several papers that reflect on health inequalities from a theoretical perspective and many papers that explore the ways in which community-based healthcare works to overcome inequity and address the effects of the social determinants of health (Flavel et al. 2022; Harris and Harris 2023; Clune et al. 2023).

Four papers look at Aboriginal people’s health, from the role of Elders through to how to ensure the healthcare system recognises and responds appropriately to culture in the way it delivers services and measures outcomes (Burgess et al. 2022; Cox et al. 2022; Rissel et al. 2022; Tane et al. 2022).

The ongoing challenge of chronic disease in Australia, and the role of community-based multi-disciplinary primary health in addressing it are the focus of a number of papers (Berkovic et al. 2022; Chua et al. 2022; Hosseinzadeh et al. 2022; Hunter et al. 2022; Manski-Nankervis et al. 2022; Nagarajan et al. 2022; Weselman et al. 2022).

Other research reported in the journal considers models of care for common health concerns such as chronic pain, telehealth, access to abortion, and advance care planning (De Morgan et al. 2022; Srinivasan et al. 2022). One of the most downloaded papers explored an “upstream” health issue of access to drinking water in rural and remote settings (Perry et al. 2022)

From a system perspective, there are papers about wellbeing of the health workforce in crises and a paper that explores what a community health service is across Australia (Khalil et al. 2022; Lewis et al. 2022; Ng et al. 2022).

This Virtual Issue demonstrates the depth and breadth of research in primary health care. The wide ranging topics and the many methods that are needed to rigorously investigate the questions that matter to our communities.

We hope that you enjoy reading this collection and that you explore other papers from the AJPH. Please make sure you sign up for the Early Alerts to keep up-to-date with future papers and collections.

Virginia Lewis, La Trobe University
Liz Sturgiss, Monash University