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Environment and public health

Medicine and the community

Where are older workers with chronic conditions employed?

Deborah J Schofield, Susan L Fletcher, Arul Earnest, Megan E Passey and Rupendra N Shrestha

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 231-234 Free

Public health

Tuberculosis in illegal foreign fishermen: whose public health are we protecting?

Natalie J Gray, Meredith Hansen-Knarhoi and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 144-147 Free

Public health

Recurrence of tuberculosis at a Sydney chest clinic between 1994 and 2006: reactivation or reinfection?

Claudia C Dobler, Guy B Marks, Sheila E Simpson and A B Hamish Crawford

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 153-155 Free

Public health

Methaemoglobinaemia following ingestion of a commonly available food additive

Peter Maric, Sayed S Ali, Leon G Heron, David Rosenfeld and Matthew Greenwood

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 156-158

Editorials

Tuberculosis: the dis-ease that didn’t dis-appear

Ivan Bastian and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 131-132

The World Today

The law and chronic disease prevention: possibilities and politics

Roger S Magnusson and Ruth Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 104-105

Public health

Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factors

Stephen J Begg, Theo Vos, Bridget Barker, Lucy Stanley and Alan D Lopez

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 36-40 Free

For debate

Should Australia lift its ban on low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products?

Coral E Gartner and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 44-46 Free

For debate

Repealing Australia’s ban on smokeless tobacco? Hasten slowly

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 47-49

The World Today

Can food and beverage companies help improve population health? Some insights from PepsiCo

Derek Yach, Antonio Lucio and Carlos Barroso

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 656-657

The World Today

The way we live in our cities

Anthony G Capon

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 658-661 Free

The World Today

Morbidity and mortality during heatwaves in metropolitan Adelaide

Monika Nitschke, Graeme R Tucker and Peng Bi

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 662-665 Free

Northern Territory Intervention

The Northern Territory Emergency Response: a chance to heal Australia’s worst sore

William J H Glasson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 614-616 Free

The World Today

Personal carbon trading: a potential “stealth intervention” for obesity reduction?

Barry N J Walters and Garry Egger

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 668

The World Today

The Oxford Health Alliance: a risky business?

Ruth Colagiuri, Stig Pramming and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 652-653

Crisis

Mitigating the health impacts of a natural disaster — the June 2007 long-weekend storm in the Hunter region of New South Wales

Michelle A Cretikos, Tony D Merritt, Kelly Main, Keith Eastwood, Linda Winn, Lucille Moran and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 670-673 Free

The World Today

What are governments for?

Martin McKee and Ruth Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 654-655

Power of one

Reaching out with a hand of help

Phoebe C M Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 681-683

Editorials

Australia needs an expanded immunisation register for further improvements in vaccine delivery and program evaluation

Susan A Skull and Terence M Nolan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 504-505

Research

The management of primary cutaneous melanoma in Victoria in 1996 and 2000

John W Kelly, Michael A Henderson, Vicky J Thursfield, John Slavin, Jill Ainslie and Graham G Giles

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 511-514 Free

Editorials

The modern cigarette, an unregulated disaster

Nigel J Gray

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 502-503

Editorials

Look what I can do while I’m driving: implications for road safety in Australia

Suzanne P McEvoy

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 428-429

Research

Handheld mobile telephone use among Melbourne drivers

David McD Taylor, Catherine E MacBean, Atandrila Das and Reizal Mohd Rosli

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 432-434 Free

Public health

Our hearts and minds — what would it take for Australia to become the healthiest country in the world?

Ian T Ring and John F O’Brien

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 447-451 Free

Letters

Interventions to halt child abuse in Aboriginal communities

Fiona J Stanley, Dorothy A Scott and Melissa O’Donnell

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 472