Volume 190, Issue 10 | The Medical Journal of Australia

Editorial

A healed and healthy country: understanding healing for Indigenous Australians

Tamara Mackean

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Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Antecedents of chronic kidney disease in Aboriginal offenders in New South Wales prisons

Beverley F Spiers

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Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Exhibition

Growing more Aboriginal health professionals: the 2009 Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Exhibition and show

Lisa R Jackson Pulver

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Mind the Gap

Asthma in Indigenous Australians: so much yet to do for Indigenous lung health

Christine R Jenkins, Anne B Chang, Leanne M Poulos and Guy B Marks

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Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

Shu Q Li, Natalie J Gray, Steve L Guthridge and Sabine L M Pircher

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How do pregnancy outcomes differ in teenage mothers? A Western Australian study

Lucy N Lewis, Martha Hickey, Dorota A Doherty and S Rachel Skinner

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“Closing the gap” by 2030: aspiration versus reality in Indigenous health

Wendy E Hoy

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Prevention and Promotion

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health

Amanda J Lee, Dympna Leonard, Aletia A Moloney and Deanne L Minniecon

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The role of energy cost in food choices for an Aboriginal population in northern Australia

Julie K Brimblecombe and Kerin O’Dea

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Lipid treatment guidelines and cardiovascular risk for Aboriginal people in Central Australia

Joanne N Luke, Alex Brown, David N O’Neal, Kerin O’Dea, Alicia J Jenkins, Margaret Kelaher, James D Best and Kevin G Rowley

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Knowledge and attitudes regarding smoking during pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

Conor Gilligan, Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Catherine D’Este, Sandra Eades and Mark Wenitong

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Adult health checks for Indigenous Australians: the first year’s experience from the Inala Indigenous Health Service

Geoffrey K P Spurling, Noel E Hayman and Anna L Cooney

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Linking Indigenous health care with school education

Geoffrey M Forbes, Stephen J Davis, Martin D Robson, Anthony F Connell and Peter C Richmond

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 565-566 Free

Communication, culture and health

Healthy country, healthy people: the relationship between Indigenous health status and “caring for country”

Christopher P Burgess, Fay H Johnston, Helen L Berry, Joseph McDonnell, Dean Yibarbuk, Charlie Gunabarra, Albert Mileran and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 567-572 Free

Barriers to participation of Aboriginal people in cancer care: communication in the hospital setting

Shaouli Shahid, Lizzie D Finn and Sandra C Thompson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 574-579 Free

Indigenous medical workforce development: current status and future directions

Ian P S Anderson, Shaun C Ewen and Debra A Knoche

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Capacity to care

Coronary heart disease events in Aboriginal Australians: incidence in an urban population

Pamela J Bradshaw, Helman S Alfonso, Judith C Finn, Julie Owen and Peter L Thompson

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Outcomes of cardiac surgery in Indigenous Australians

Sam J Lehman, Robert A Baker, Philip E Aylward, John L Knight and Derek P Chew

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Timing of transfer for pregnant women from Queensland Cape York communities to Cairns for birthing

Joanna L Arnold, Caroline M de Costa and Paul W Howat

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Middle ear disease in Aboriginal children in Perth: analysis of hearing screening data, 1998–2004

Corinne J Williams, Harvey L Coates, Elaine M Pascoe, Yvonne Axford and Irene Nannup

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Improving Indigenous patients’ access to mainstream health services: the Inala experience

Noel E Hayman, Nola E White and Geoffrey K Spurling

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 604-606 Free

Letters

Indigenous simulated patients: an initiative in “closing the gap”

Shaun C Ewen, Margo E Collins, Jennifer A Schwarz and Eleanor M Flynn

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Closing the gap depends on ACCHSs

Sophie Couzos and Dea Delaney Thiele

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Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003: are people living in remote areas worse off?

David J Scrimgeour

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Why Australia needs a national college of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

John Daniels and Sophie Couzos

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The capacity of mainstream alcohol and drug treatment services to respond to the needs of Indigenous Australians

Ann M Roche, Kenneth J Pidd and Vinita Duraisingam

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Effect of swimming pools on antibiotic use and clinic attendance for infections in two Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Yvette Roe and Robyn A McDermott

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Close the gap

Close the Gap: ask the experts

Ruth Armstrong

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Close the Gap: social justice

Tom Calma

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Close the Gap: psychology

Patricia Dudgeon

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Close the Gap: National Indigenous Health Equality Council

Ian Anderson

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Close the Gap: dentistry

Christopher J Bourke

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Close the Gap: Aboriginal community controlled health services

Mick Adams

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Close the Gap: Oxfam Australia

Andrew Hewett

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Close the Gap: nursing

Robyn Coulthard

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Close the Gap: Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association

Peter O’Mara

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Book reviews

The search for justice

Judy Atkinson

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Nurturing Aboriginal men’s health

Mark Wenitong