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Environment and public health

Letters

Closing the gap — better health intelligence is required

Anthony D Merritt, April R Roberts-Witteveen and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): 309 Free

Editorials

Asbestos still poses a threat to global health: now is the time for action

Peter D Sly, Robin Chase, John Kolbe, Philip Thompson, Leena Gupta, Mike Daube, Ian Olver and Deborah Vallance

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (4): 198-199

Public health

Trends in the incidence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007

Shanley Chong, Wei Du and Julie Hatfield

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (4): 223-226 Free

Letters

Alarm about computed tomography scans is unjustified

Richard M Mendelson, Richard A Fox and Nicholas H de Klerk

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (4): 246

Correction

MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?

Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 192

Editorials

Recognising and responding to the obvious: the source of lead pollution at Mount Isa and the likely health impacts

Niels C Munksgaard, Mark P Taylor and Alana Mackay

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 131-132

Research

The use of cross-jurisdictional population data to investigate health indicators of child maltreatment

Melissa O’Donnell, Natasha Nassar, Helen M Leonard, Richard P Mathews, Yvonne G Patterson and Fiona J Stanley

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 142-145 Free

Letters

Junk food packaging — a challenge to the Prime Minister

Bebe Loff and Brad R Crammond

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 192

For debate

Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: putting evidence into practice?

Kathy L Flitcroft, Glenn P Salkeld, James A Gillespie, Lyndal J Trevena and Les M Irwig

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 37-42 Free

Letters

A rare granulomatous reaction to Q fever vaccination following influenza vaccination

Deborah Burnett and Leslie Burnett

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 60

Editorials

MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?

Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 5-7

Research

Assessing pregnant women’s compliance with different alcohol guidelines: an 11-year prospective study

Jennifer R Powers, Deborah J Loxton, Lucy A Burns, Anthony Shakeshaft, Elizabeth J Elliott and Adrian J Dunlop

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 690-693 Free

Letters

Managing outbreaks of viral respiratory infection in aged care facilities — challenges and difficulties during the first pandemic wave

Gulam Khandaker, Bridget Doyle, Dominic E Dwyer and Robert Booy

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 722

Society, Culture and Health

Early impressions of paediatric health in Alice Springs: trying to see beyond the gaps

Marcel D Zimmet

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 606-607 Free

Pandemic influenza

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in an urban Aboriginal medical service

Ana Herceg, Peter G Sharp, Christine G Arthur and Julie A Tongs

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 623 Free

Defining the gap

Clinical oral health outcomes in young Australian Aboriginal adults compared with national-level counterparts

Lisa M Jamieson, Susan M Sayers and Kaye F Roberts-Thomson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 558-561 Free

Defining the gap

Two nations: racial disparities in bloodstream infections recorded at Alice Springs Hospital, central Australia, 2001–2005

Lloyd J Einsiedel and Richard J Woodman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 567-571 Free

At the frontline

Rates of radiologically confirmed pneumonia as defined by the World Health Organization in Northern Territory Indigenous children

Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Debbie M Taylor-Thomson, Anne B Chang, Paul J Torzillo, Peter S Morris, Grant A Mackenzie, Gavin R Wheaton, Paul A Bauert, Margaret P De Campo, John F De Campo and Alan R Ruben

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 592-595 Free

Letters

Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?

David W Smith, David J Speers and Rodney A Bowman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 541-542

Correction

Early evidence for direct and indirect effects of the infant rotavirus vaccine program in Queensland

Stephen B Lambert, Cassandra E Faux, Lisa Hall, Frances A Birrell, Karen V Peterson, Christine E Selvey, Theo P Sloots, Michael D Nissen and Keith Grimwood

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 525 Free

Book review

Assessing elderly drivers’ roadworthiness

Ilian Kamenoff

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 536

Editorials

Lightening our carbon footprint: economics, norms and doctors

Colin D Butler

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 485-486

For debate

Super size me: is a big Australia good for our health?

Deborah Pelser

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 526-527 Free

Viewpoint

The carbon footprints of obesity, chronic disease and population growth: four things doctors can do

Robyn A McDermott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 531-532 Free

Letters

Risks associated with low functional health literacy in an Australian population

Margo H Saunders and Anita Peerson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 478-479