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Environment and public health

Updates in medicine

Public health

Fran E Baum and Helen Keleher

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (1): 36

Fitness and fads

The epidemiology of dog walking: an unmet need for human and canine health

Adrian E Bauman, Schroeder J Russell, Susan E Furber and Annette J Dobson

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 632-634

Editorials

Environment, sustainability and health: the learning curve steepens

Anthony J McMichael

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 569-570

Fitness and fads

Estimating historical changes in physical activity levels

Garry J Egger, Neeltje Vogels and Klaas R Westerterp

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 635-636

Asylum seekers and healthcare

Screening for conditions of public health importance in people arriving in Australia by boat without authority

Kathleen King and Peter Vodicka

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 600-602

Bites and stings

Outbreak of caterpillar dermatitis caused by airborne hairs of the mistletoe browntail moth (Euproctis edwardsi)

Corrine R Balit, Helen C Ptolemy, Merilyn J Geary, Richard C Russell and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 641-643

Childhood injuries

Preventing children drowning in Australia

Danny T Cass

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 603-604

Hazards and Help in Communications

Books as carriers of disease

Mark J Ferson

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 663-664

Childhood injuries

Horse-related injuries in children

Gerard T Roy, Valapha Goh, Frank I Ross, John P Keneally and Daniel T Cass

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 609-612

The Research Enterprise

The Menzies Centre for Population Health Research

Terence Dwyer

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (11): 617-620 Free

Indigenous health

Household infrastructure in Aboriginal communities and the implications for health improvement

Ross S Bailie and Myfanwy J Runcie

Med J Aust 2001; 175 (7): 363-366 Free

Viewpoint

Losing the battle of the bulge: causes and consequences of increasing obesity

Richard M Eckersley

Med J Aust 2001; 174 (11): 590-592

Public health

Has the ban on smoking in New South Wales restaurants worked? A comparison of restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne

Simon Chapman, Ron Borland and Anita Lal

Med J Aust 2001; 174 (10): 512-515

Research

Iron deficiency in Australian-born children of Arabic background in central Sydney

Margaret A Karr, Michael Mira, Garth Alperstein, Samia Labib, Boyd H Webster, Ahti T Lammi and Patricia Beal

Med J Aust 2001; 174 (4): 165-168 Free

Research

Use of fake tanning lotions in the South Australian population

Kerri R Beckmann, Barbara A Kirke, Kieran A McCaul and David M Roder

Med J Aust 2001; 174 (2): 75-78 Free

Responding to crisis

Malaria in the Australian Defence Force during and after participation in the International Force in East Timor (INTERFET)

Scott J Kitchener, Alyson M Auliff and Karl H Rieckmann

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (11): 583-585

Conference report

XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, 9-14 July, 2000

John B Ziegler and Rosemary A Ffrench

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (11): 572-574

Editorials

Domestic violence

Beverley Raphael

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (10): 513-514

Public health

How many dependent heroin users are there in Australia?

Wayne D Hall, Joanne E Ross, Michael T Lynskey, Matthew G Law and Louisa J Degenhardt

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (10): 528-531

Olympic Games

Monitoring acute diseases during the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Sarah V Thackway, Valerie C Delpech, Louisa R Jorm, Jeremy M McAnulty and Maria Visotina

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (6): 318-321

Personal perspective

The New South Wales Drug Summit: a view from a local foreign observer

Jeffrey H Samet

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (5): 264-265

Editorials

SIDS: facts and controversies

Ed A Mitchell

Med J Aust 2000; 173 (4): 173-174

Notable cases

Australian bat lyssavirus infection: a second human case, with a long incubation period

Jeffrey N Hanna, Ian K Carney, Greg A Smith, Joseph E Deverill, John A Botha, Ina L Serafin, Bruce J Harrower, Peter F Fitzpatrick and Jeffrey W Searle

Med J Aust 2000; 172 (12): 597-599 Free

Research

Excess coronary mortality among Australian men and women living outside the capital city statistical divisions

Peter T Sexton and Tiina-Liisa H Sexton

Med J Aust 2000; 172 (8): 370-374 Free

Research

HIV and AIDS in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: 1992-1998

Jillian A Guthrie, Gregory J Dore, Ann M McDonald and John M Kaldor

Med J Aust 2000; 172 (6): 266-269 Free