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Volume 188 Issue 10

19 May 2008

Indigenous health — Editorial

Partnerships in action: addressing the health challenge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Tamara Mackean, Mick Adams, Sally Goold, Christopher Bourke and Tom Calma

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 554-555 Free

The Apology — Viewpoint

Beyond Sorry — the first steps in laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians

Lisa R Jackson Pulver and Sally A Fitzpatrick

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 556-558 Free

The Great Divide

Cancer care for Indigenous Australians

John D Boffa

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 560-561 Free

Survival of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Queenslanders after a diagnosis of lung cancer: a matched cohort study

Michael D Coory, Adele C Green, Janelle Stirling and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 562-566 Free

Racial disparities in infection-related mortality at Alice Springs Hospital, Central Australia, 2000–2005

Lloyd J Einsiedel, Liselle A Fernandes and Richard J Woodman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 568-571 Free

Hospitalisations due to interpersonal violence: a population-based study in Western Australia

Lynn B Meuleners, Delia Hendrie and Andy H Lee

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 572-575 Free

Hospitalisation for head injury due to assault among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, July 1999 – June 2005

Lisa M Jamieson, James E Harrison and Jesia G Berry

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 576-579 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

The heart of the matter is, that it’s a matter of the heart

Barry N Fewquandie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 580-582 Free

Life b’long Ali Drummond (the life of Ali Drummond)

Samantha Faulkner

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 582-582

Research enterprise

Navigating the process of developing a research project in Aboriginal health

Anne P F Wand and Sandra J Eades

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 584-587 Free

Indigenous child health: urgent need for improved data to underpin better health outcomes

Emily Fremantle, Yvonne A Zurynski, Deepika Mahajan, Heather D’Antoine and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 588-591 Free

Addressing diseases of disadvantage

Oral health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

Kaye F Roberts-Thomson, A John Spencer and Lisa M Jamieson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 592-593 Free

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

Desiree T Silva, Deborah Lehmann, Mary T Tennant, Peter Jacoby, Helen Wright and Fiona J Stanley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 594-598 Free

The effect of passive smoking on the risk of otitis media in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in the Kalgoorlie–Boulder region of Western Australia

Peter A Jacoby, Harvey L Coates, Ashwini Arumugaswamy, Dimity Elsbury, Annette Stokes, Ruth Monck, Janine M Finucane, Sharon A Weeks and Deborah Lehmann

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 599-603 Free

Heavy cannabis use and depressive symptoms in three Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

K S Kylie Lee, Alan R Clough, Muriel J Jaragba, Katherine M Conigrave and George C Patton

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 605-608 Free

Prevalence of and risk factors for hepatitis C in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal adolescent offenders

David van der Poorten, Dianna T Kenny and Jacob George

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 610-614 Free

Delivery of child health services in Indigenous communities: implications for the federal government’s emergency intervention in the Northern Territory

Ross S Bailie, Damin Si, Michelle C Dowden, Christine M Connors, Lynette O’Donoghue, Helen E Liddle, Catherine M Kennedy, Rhonda J Cox, Hugh P Burke, Sandra C Thompson and Alex D H Brown

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 615-618 Free

Book review

The challenges facing Aboriginal health workers

Fiona Stanley

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 604 Free

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana scholarship and exhibition

What’s new in the Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana residential scholarship?

Lisa R Jackson Pulver and Hilton Immerman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 593

Matters arising

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 620-621 Free

“Let’s not talk about sex”; reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Sandra C Thompson, Darryl M Kickett and Timothy G Leahy

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 620 Free

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Michael S Gracey and Randolph M Spargo

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 620-621 Free

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

“Let's not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Bryan G Walpole

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Francis J Bowden and Katherine Fethers

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

Letters

Where do Queensland’s Indigenous people live?

Alan E Dugdale

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 614 Free

The Northern Territory Emergency Response: a chance to heal Australia’s worst sore

Hamish R Graham

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 623 Free

The Northern Territory Emergency Response: a chance to heal Australia’s worst sore

William J H Glasson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 623 Free