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Environment and public health

2018

Research

Surveillance improves survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a prospective population-based study

Thai P Hong, Paul J Gow, Michael Fink, Anouk Dev, Stuart K Roberts, Amanda Nicoll, John S Lube, Ian Kronborg, Niranjan Arachchi, Marno Ryan, William W Kemp, Virginia Knight, Vijaya Sundararajan, Paul Desmond, Alexander JV Thompson and Sally J Bell

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 1 Free

Editorials

Protecting our children from obesity: challenges and opportunities

Michael J Moore, Martin McKee and Aimee L Brownbill

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (6): 253-254

Narrative review

Contemporary approaches to the prevention and management of paediatric obesity: an Australian focus

Seema Mihrshahi, Megan L Gow and Louise A Baur

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (6): 267-274

Perspectives

Screening for spinal muscular atrophy

Hugo Sampaio, Bridget Wilcken and Michelle Farrar

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 147-148

Editorials

Inequity amplified: climate change, the Australian farmer, and mental health

Molly Shorthouse and Louise Stone

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 156-157 Free

Letters

An era of untreatable gonorrhoea?

Brett Sutton and Mihaela Ivan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 188

Perspectives

Potential implications of the new American hypertension guidelines in Australia

Garry LR Jennings, Bronwyn A Kingwell and Erin Hoare

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 108-109

Letters

Tackling the worsening epidemic of Buruli ulcer in Australia in an information void: time for an urgent scientific response

Petra Zimmermann, Adam Finn and Nigel Curtis

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 142

Research

Drought-related stress among farmers: findings from the Australian Rural Mental Health Study

Emma K Austin, Tonelle Handley, Anthony S Kiem, Jane L Rich, Terry J Lewin, Hedda H Askland, Sara S Askarimarnani, David A Perkins and Brian J Kelly

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 159-165 Free

Perspectives

Rendering visible the previously invisible in health care: the ageing LGBTI communities

Carmelle Peisah, Kim Burns, Samantha Edmonds and Henry Brodaty

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 106-108

Letters

Azithromycin for Salmonella infection: don’t presume it works

Alan J Rogers, Gar-hing A Lee and Peter Boan

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 98

Perspectives

New enhanced influenza vaccines for older Australians: what promise do they hold?

Sarah L Sheridan, Cyra Patel, Kristine Macartney and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 110-112

Editorials

Poisoning and poisoning advice: availability, toxico-vigilance and research

Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 65-66

Research

Patterns of poisoning exposure at different ages: the 2015 annual report of the Australian Poisons Information Centres

Alanna Huynh, Rose Cairns, Jared A Brown, Ann-Maree Lynch, Jeff Robinson, Carol Wylie, Nicholas A Buckley and Andrew H Dawson, on behalf of the Synthesis of the Network of Australian Poisons Services' Health Outcomes and Treatment (SNAPSHOT) investigators

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 74-79 Free

Perspectives

The true price of sugar-sweetened disease: political inertia requires renewed, strategic action

Alessandro Demaio and Alexandra Jones

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 60-61

Research letter

Population awareness of tobacco-related harms: implications for refreshing graphic health warnings in Australia

Emily Brennan, Kimberley Dunstone and Melanie Wakefield

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (4): 173-174 Free

Editorials

Multimorbidity in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people

GA (Tony) Broe and Kylie Radford

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (1): 16-17 Free

Research

Agreement between diagnoses of otitis media by audiologists and otolaryngologists in Aboriginal Australian children

Hasantha Gunasekera, Hilary M Miller, Leonie Burgess, Shingisai Chando, Simone L Sheriff, Julie D Tsembis, Kelvin M Kong, Harvey LC Coates, John Curotta, Kathleen Falster, Peter B McIntyre, Emily Banks, Natasha J Peter and Jonathan C Craig

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (1): 29-35 Free

Research

Closing the vaccination coverage gap in New South Wales: the Aboriginal Immunisation Healthcare Worker Program

Alexandra J Hendry, Frank H Beard, Aditi Dey, Dennis Meijer, Sue Campbell-Lloyd, Katrina K Clark, Brynley P Hull and Vicky Sheppeard

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (1): 24-28 Free

Perspectives

Burnout in the medical profession: not a rite of passage

Michael Baigent and Ruth Baigent

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 471-472

Editorials

Colorectal cancer screening reduces incidence, mortality and morbidity

Bilel Jideh and Michael J Bourke

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 483-484

Letters

The value of food fortification as a public health intervention

Carol Bower, Fiona J Stanley and Mike Daube

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (11): 504-505

Research letter

Mortality among middle-aged Australians, 1960–2010: implications for prevention policy

Andrea J Curtis, Richard Ofori-Asenso, Manoj Gambhir and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (10): 444-445 Free

Letters

Australia’s health divide: time to address the underlying causes

Sharon L Brennan-Olsen and Sharon Friel

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (10): 461

Research

Active surveillance of men with low risk prostate cancer: evidence from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry–Victoria

Melanie A Evans, Jeremy L Millar, Arul Earnest, Mark Frydenberg, Ian D Davis, Declan G Murphy, Paul Aidan Kearns and Sue M Evans

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (10): 439-443 Free