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Environment and public health

Perspectives

Access to oral COVID‐19 antivirals in the community: are eligibility criteria and systems ensuring equity?

Nicole L Allard, Jose Canevari, Nick Haslett and Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 438-441 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Locally acquired respiratory diphtheria in Australia

Simon Smith, James Stewart, Joshua Hanson, Julian Harris, Fred JJ Chuang, Gavin Quail, Bryan Hawarden, Roshni Lad, Shannon McNee, Benjamin McCartney, Tonia Marquardt, Ian Wilson, Catherine Tacon and Bernard CS Whitfield

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 446-448 Free

Perspectives

Upholding our rights in research: calling for urgent investment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research ethics

Michelle Kennedy and Janine Mohamed

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (1): 9-11 Free

Perspectives

A step in the right direction: the potential role of smartwatches in supporting chronic disease prevention in health care

Graeme Mattison, Oliver J Canfell, Doug Forrester, Chelsea Dobbins, Daniel Smith, David Reid and Clair Sullivan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 384-388 Free

Perspectives

The impact of climate change on skin health

Austen Anderson, Fiona Bruce, H Peter Soyer, Crystal Williams and Rebecca B Saunderson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 388-390

Editorials

General practice and melanoma management in Australia: controversies and implications for generalist GP training

Cliff Rosendahl and Simon Clark

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 397-398

Research letters

Bloodstream infection rates in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people in Central Australia, 2014–2018

Alice Coe, Richard J Woodman, Rob Baird and Lloyd Einsiedel

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 415-417 Free

Reflection

Reflections on the life and career of Professor Dame Valerie Beral AC DBE FRS FRCOG FMedSci (1943–2022)

Karen Canfell, Bette Liu and Emily Banks

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 352-353 Free

Editorials

The mental health of health and aged care workers in Australia

Samuel Harvey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 357-358

Research

Mental health and wellbeing of health and aged care workers in Australia, May 2021 – June 2022: a longitudinal cohort study

Sarah L McGuinness, Owen Eades, Kelsey L Grantham, Shannon Zhong, Josphin Johnson, Peter A Cameron, Andrew B Forbes, Jane RW Fisher, Carol L Hodgson, Jessica Kasza, Helen Kelsall, Maggie Kirkman, Grant M Russell, Philip L Russo, Malcolm R Sim, Kasha Singh, Helen Skouteris, Karen Smith, Rhonda L Stuart, James M Trauer, Andrew Udy, Sophia Zoungas and Karin Leder

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 361-367 Free

Research letters

A rise in invasive and non‐invasive group A streptococcal disease case numbers in Melbourne in late 2022

Aleece MacPhail, Wen Jie Isaac Lee, Despina Kotsanas, Tony M Korman and Maryza Graham

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 378-379 Free

Letter

Reducing the burden of group A streptococcal disease in the Northern Territory: the role of chemoprophylaxis for those at greatest risk

Johanna M Birrell, Bart J Currie and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 380-380

Perspectives

Why losing Australia's biodiversity matters for human health: insights from the latest State of the Environment assessment

Katherine A Barraclough, Marion Carey, Kenneth D Winkel, Emily Humphries, Brooke Ah Shay and Yi Chao Foong

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 336-340 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Neurotoxic risks from over‐the‐counter vitamin supplements

Dhayalen Krishnan and Matthew C Kiernan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 304-306 Free

Letters

Modern paradigms for prostate cancer detection and management

Rosalie Schultz

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 331-331

Medical education

Japanese encephalitis virus: changing the clinical landscape of encephalitis in Australia

Sarah Allen, Celia M Cooper, Ajay Taranath, Allen C Cheng and Philip N Britton

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 344-347

Systematic review

Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: umbrella and systematic review of the global evidence

Emily Banks, Amelia Yazidjoglou, Sinan Brown, Mai Nguyen, Melonie Martin, Katie Beckwith, Amanda Daluwatta, Sai Campbell and Grace Joshy

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 267-275 Free

Letters

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

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 Free

Editorials

Universal testing for hepatitis B must be accompanied by better linkage with care

Lien Tran and Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 165-166

Letters

Cremation and the medical practitioner

Mark J Ferson, Reannon Johnson and Toni Cains

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 190-191

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 Free

Editorials

Dispelling misconceptions about who uses e‐cigarettes and why

Alexander Larcombe

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 117-118

Perspectives

Designing digital health applications for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins, Ann Borda and Kimberly Humphrey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 106-110 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Keratinocyte cancer in chronic smokers: is this arsenic exposure?

Lachlan DW Lau, Anneliese Willems and Laura Scardamaglia

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (2): 68-69