This paper describes the current child mental health policy landscape in Victoria and at a federal level within Australia, to understand the extent to which mental health competence is targeted and families are currently utilised as a key influence. A range of policies aim to promote mental health competence but they could be improved by...

This scoping study reviewed 188 policies related to family adversity in Australia to determine if these policies both support a primary health care system that identifies family adversity such as childhood maltreatment, or parental mental illness and other household dysfunction, and are subsequently able to support these families.

Population cancer screening rates are around 50% for the general population and even lower in rural areas. This study aimed to explore knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, motivators and barriers to breast, bowel and cervical screening participation in under-screened men and women with the aim of increasing cancer screening participation in under-screened rural populations.