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Environment and public health

Letters

The NDIS at ten years: designing an equitable scheme for the next decade

Eleanor Malbon, Ariella Meltzer and Gemma Carey

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 55-55 Free

Perspectives

Planetary health: a new standard for medical education

Catherine GA Pendrey, Sonia Chanchlani, Laura J Beaton and Diana L Madden

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 512-515 Free

Letters

A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial

Jasmin Grigg, Victoria Manning and Dan I Lubman

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 560-560 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A thorny case of spastic paralysis

Travis Lines, Aadith Ashok, Sadid F Khan and Michael J Loftus

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 526-527

Research

The burden of occupational injury attributable to high temperatures in Australia, 2014–19: a retrospective observational study

Blesson M Varghese, Alana Hansen, Nick Mann, Jingwen Liu, Ying Zhang, Tim R Driscoll, Geoffrey G Morgan, Keith Dear, Anthony Capon, Michelle Gourley, Vanessa Prescott, Vergil Dolar and Peng Bi

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 542-548 Free

Systematic review

COVID‐19 rapid antigen tests approved for self‐testing in Australia: published diagnostic test accuracy studies and manufacturer‐supplied information. A systematic review

Katy JL Bell, Yuyang Li, Ellie Medcalf and Deonna Ackermann

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 551-558 Free

Letters

It's time for Australian hospitals to be all‐electric (and powered by 100% renewable energy)

Ben Dunne, Michael Forrester and Eugenie Kayak

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 559-559 Free

Letters

A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial

Alain Braillon

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 559-560 Free

Research letter

COVID‐19 vaccination of children with refugee backgrounds in Western Australia: a retrospective observational study

Thomas Volkman, Roisin Clarke, Jack Anstey and Sarah Cherian

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 549-550 Free

Position statement summary

Updated National Health and Medical Research Council statement on electronic cigarettes

Becky Freeman, Matthew J Peters, Renee Bittoun, Richard Brightwell, Dallas R English, David P Thomas, Margaret FA Otlowski, Nicholas A Zwar and Catherine Chamberlain

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (2): 100-106 Free

Editorials

Advancing the Australian global health community's commitment to climate change and global health

Angie Bone, Prabhleen Kaur, Anthony Capon, Vivian Kwang‐wen Lin, Sione Tu'itahi, Kathryn Bowen, Nick Watts, Jane RW Fisher, Paul J Stewart, Helen Evans and Selina Namchee Lo

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 533-534 Free

Perspective

Sustainable environments for Australian children's and young people's health and wellbeing: our young's welfare is threatened

Peter D Sly and Fiona J Stanley

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): S40-S43 Free

Editorials

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia a world leader in neglecting its responsibilities

Paul J Beggs and Ying Zhang

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 528-529 Free

Perspectives

Setting the policy agenda for cancer control reform: Australia's first national cancer control plan

Daniel Chaji, Anna Boltong, Carolyn Der Vartanian, Adam Lambert, Cindy Toms, Vivienne Milch, Claire Howlett and Dorothy Keefe

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 451-454 Free

Editorials

The Future Healthy Countdown 2030: holding us to account for children's and young people's health and wellbeing

Sandro Demaio, Sharon R Goldfeld and Susan Maury

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 465-466 Free

Perspective

Monitoring the physical and mental health of Australian children and young people: a foundation for responsive and accountable actions

Kate Lycett, Georgie Frykberg, Peter S Azzopardi, Joyce Cleary, Susan M Sawyer, John W Toumbourou, Tim Slade and Craig A Olsson

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): S20-S24 Free

Letters

Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for pandemic response products in the World Health Organization pandemic accord need Australia's support

Thomas Cueni and Elizabeth Somer

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (9): 439-439 Free

Letters

Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for pandemic response products in the World Health Organization pandemic accord need Australia's support

Deborah Gleeson, James Scheibner and Dianne Nicol

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (9): 439-439 Free

Editorials

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, Stephen Hancocks, Richard C Horton, Laurie Laybourn‐Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia M Sharief, Paul Yonga and Chris Zielinski

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 530-532 Free

Research letter

The impact of COVID‐19 on consultations at an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care service: a retrospective observational study

Geoffrey K Spurling, Deborah A Askew and Noel E Hayman

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 482-484 Free

Research

Health care service use by people diagnosed with invasive melanoma in Queensland: a benefit incidence analysis

Daniel Lindsay, David C Whiteman, Catherine M Olsen and Louisa G Gordon

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (9): 417-422 Free

Study protocol

Psychosocial outcomes and health service use after notifying women participating in population breast screening when they have dense breasts: a BreastScreen Queensland randomised controlled trial

Brooke Nickel, Nick Ormiston‐Smith, Lisa Hammerton, Erin Cvejic, Paul Vardon, Zoe Mcinally, Paula Legerton, Karen Baker, Jennifer Isautier, Emma Larsen, Michelle Giles, Meagan E Brennan, Kirsten J McCaffery and Nehmat Houssami

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (9): 423-428 Free

Guideline summary

Recommendations for culturally safe clinical kidney care for First Nations Australians: a guideline summary

David J Tunnicliffe, Samantha Bateman, Melissa Arnold‐Chamney, Karen M Dwyer, Martin Howell, Azaria Gebadi, Shilpa Jesudason, Janet Kelly, Kelly Lambert, Sandawan William Majoni, Dora Oliva, Kelli J Owen, Odette Pearson, Elizabeth Rix, Ieyesha Roberts, Ro‐Anne Stirling‐Kelly, Kimberly Taylor, Gary A Wittert, Katherine Widders, Adela Yip, Jonathan Craig and Richard K Phoon

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (8): 374-385 Free

Perspective

Advancing accessible kidney transplantation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: the National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce

Jaquelyne T Hughes, Katie Cundale, Kelli J Owen and Stephen P McDonald

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (8): S3-S6 Free

Editorials

Child abuse and premature mortality: disrupting the harm cascade

Leonie Segal and Harriet Hiscock

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 301-302