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Volume 218 Issue 5

20 March 2023

Editor’s choice

Health requires a whole‐of‐government, and ultimately whole‐of‐system, approach

Virginia Barbour

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 195-195 Free

Perspectives

Australia's political engagement on health and climate change: the MJA–Lancet Countdown indicator and implications for the future

Maddie Heenan, Lucie Rychetnik, Elly Howse, Paul J Beggs, Tarun S Weeramanthri, Fiona Armstrong and Ying Zhang

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 196-202 Open Access

Mitigating the impacts of racism on Indigenous wellbeing through human rights, legislative and health policy reform

Pat Dudgeon, Abigail Bray and Roz Walker

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 203-205 Open Access

Mpox outbreak in 2022: implications for blood component and donor human milk safety in Australia

Philip Kiely, Veronica C Hoad, Claire E Styles and Iain B Gosbell

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 206-208

More and better clinical trials in health care: focusing on people, not just systems and processes

Angela L Todd and Don Nutbeam

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 209-211 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Non‐typhoidal Salmonella myocarditis: a disease manifestation not to be missed

Nilanthy Vigneswaran and Elaine Cheong

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 212-213

Editorial

Coronary calcium scoring for guiding lipid‐lowering therapy is cost‐effective: time to remove barriers to its use

Erfan Tasdighi and Michael J Blaha

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 214-215

Research

The cost‐effectiveness of coronary calcium score‐guided statin therapy initiation for Australians with family histories of premature coronary artery disease

Prasanna Venkataraman, Amanda L Neil, Geoffrey K Mitchell, Tony Stanton, Stephen Nicholls, Andrew M Tonkin, Gerald F Watts and Thomas H Marwick

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 216-222

Infectious syphilis in women and heterosexual men in major Australian cities: sentinel surveillance data, 2011–2019

Allison Carter, Hamish McManus, James S Ward, Tobias Vickers, Jason Asselin, Greta Baillie, Eric PF Chow, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Christopher Bourne, Anna McNulty, Phillip Read, Kevin Heath, Nathan Ryder, Jenny McCloskey, Christopher Carmody, Heather McCormack, Kate Alexander, Dawn Casey, Mark Stoove, Margaret E Hellard, Basil Donovan and Rebecca J Guy

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 223-228 Open Access

Research letter

Direct‐acting antiviral treatments in Australia for children with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Jessica A Eldredge, Michael O Stormon, Julia E Clark, Scott Nightingale, Brendan McMullan, Brooke Andersen, Christina Travers and Winita Hardikar

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 229-230 Free

Consensus statement

Consensus recommendations on the management of hepatitis C in Australia's prisons

Rebecca J Winter, Yumi Sheehan, Timothy Papaluca, Graeme A Macdonald, Joy Rowland, Anton Colman, Mark Stoove, Andrew R Lloyd and Alexander J Thompson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 231-237 Open Access

Letters

Historic breakthrough for public access defibrillation in Australia

Joshua G Kovoor, Gregory J Page and Pramesh Kovoor

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 238-238 Open Access

Clinician alert: toxigenic diphtheria cases across North Queensland are on the rise

Allison Hempenstall, Jay Short, Tonia Marquardt, Valmay Fisher and Janice Johnson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 238-238