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Environment and public health

Perspectives

Public health and economic perspectives on acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Jeffrey Cannon, Dawn C Bessarab, Rosemary Wyber and Judith M Katzenellenbogen

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (6): 250-252.e1

Letter

Record number of influenza tests in 2019, not a “mutant flu crisis”

Vicky Sheppeard, Robin Gilmour and Sean Tobin

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (7): n/a-n/a

Research

Paracetamol poisoning‐related hospital admissions and deaths in Australia, 2004–2017

Rose Cairns, Jared A Brown, Claire E Wylie, Andrew H Dawson, Geoffrey K Isbister and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 218-223 Free

Perspectives

Concussion risk and suicide prevention: balancing the risks and benefits of youth sport

Amanda Clacy, Daniel F Hermens, Kathryn Broadhouse and Jim Lagopoulos

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (6): 247-249.e1

Perspectives

Adolescent immunisation in young people with disabilities in Australia

Jenny O'Neill, Fiona Newall, Giuliana Antolovich, Sally Lima and Margie H Danchin

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 199-200.e1

Research

Aeromedical retrievals of people for mental health care and the low level of clinical support in rural and remote Australia

Fergus W Gardiner, Mathew Coleman, Narcissus Teoh, Abby Harwood, Neil T Coffee, Lauren Gale, Lara Bishop and Martin Laverty

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (8): n/a-n/a Free

Letters

Screening for perinatal depression and predictors of underscreening: findings of the Born in Queensland study

Macarena A San Martin Porter, Steve Kisely and Rosa Alati

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 190-190.e1

Letters

Unintended consequences of a cautious approach to e‐cigarette laws

Colin P Mendelsohn and Alex D Wodak

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 190-190.e1

Letters

Unintended consequences of a cautious approach to e‐cigarette laws

Anthony C Catalano, Noel E Cranswick, Joanne Grindlay, Mick Creati, Margie H Danchin, Jeff Robinson, Nicola Williams and Amanda Gwee

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 190-190.e1

Perspectives

Poliomyelitis outbreak in Papua New Guinea: health system and health security implications for PNG and Australia

John J Hall, Tabian Ambang, Augustine Asante, Pili Mapira, Adam Craig, Elisabeth Schuele and Maha Pervaz Iqbal

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 161-162.e1

Letters

Screening for perinatal depression and predictors of underscreening: findings of the Born in Queensland study

Julia V Marley, Emma Carlin and Catherine Engelke

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 189-189.e1

Research letters

Leprosy in Far North Queensland: almost gone, but not to be forgotten

Allison Hempenstall, Simon Smith and Josh Hanson

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 182-183 Free

Editorials

Renewed cervical screening: what the early results tell us

David C Currow and Sanchia Aranda

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 110-111

Perspectives

Australia's National Medicines Policy is outdated and in need of review

Brendan Shaw and Orin Chisholm

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (6): 252-254.e1

Editorials

High rates of vaccination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: an underappreciated success?

Frank H Beard and Katrina K Clark

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 17-18 Free

Letters

Identifying the cultural heritage of patients during clinical handover and in hospital medical records

Susan A Welch, Sonia Robinson, Tamra Langley and Pauline Deweerd

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 44-44.e1 Free

Letters

Identifying the cultural heritage of patients during clinical handover and in hospital medical records

David JR Morgan, Martin Whitely and Tania Harris

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 44-44.e1 Free

Research

HPV vaccination coverage and course completion rates for Indigenous Australian adolescents, 2015

Julia ML Brotherton, Karen L Winch, Genevieve Chappell, Carolyn Banks, Dennis Meijer, Sonya Ennis, Karen Peterson, Rosalind Webby and Lisa J Whop

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 31-36 Free

Research

The EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire for cancer patients (QLQ‐C30): Australian general population reference values

Rebecca Mercieca‐Bebber, Daniel SJ Costa, Richard Norman, Monika Janda, David P Smith, Peter Grimison, Eva‐Marie Gamper and Madeleine T King

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (11): 499-506 Free

Research

Routine cervical screening by primary HPV testing: early findings in the renewed National Cervical Screening Program

Dorothy A Machalek, Jennifer M Roberts, Suzanne M Garland, Julia Thurloe, Adele Richards, Ian Chambers, Terri Sivertsen and Annabelle Farnsworth

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 113-119 Free

Research

Respiratory syncytial virus‐associated hospitalisations in Australia, 2006–2015

Gemma L Saravanos, Meru Sheel, Nusrat Homaira, Aditi Dey, Edward Brown, Han Wang, Kristine Macartney and Nicholas J Wood

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 447-453 Free

Editorials

Interpreting the “league tables of death”: advance Australia backwards?

Adrian E Bauman

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 400-401

Research

Slower increase in life expectancy in Australia than in other high income countries: the contributions of age and cause of death

Alan D Lopez and Tim Adair

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 403-409 Free

Research

Acute kidney injury in Indigenous Australians in the Kimberley: age distribution and associated diagnoses

Joseph V Mohan, David N Atkinson, Johan B Rosman and Emma K Griffiths

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 19-23 Free

Research

Evaluating recruitment strategies for AUSPICE, a large Australian community‐based randomised controlled trial

Roseanne Peel, Shu Ren, Alexis Hure, Tiffany‐Jane Evans, Catherine A D'Este, Walter P Abhayaratna, Andrew M Tonkin, Ingrid Hopper, Amanda G Thrift, Christopher R Levi, Jonathan Sturm, David Durrheim, Joseph Hung, Tom G Briffa, Derek P Chew, Phil Anderson, Lynelle Moon, Mark McEvoy, Philip M Hansbro, David A Newby and John R Attia

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 409-415 Free