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Indigenous health

Close the gap

Close the Gap: nursing

Robyn Coulthard

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 601 Free

Prevention and Promotion

Linking Indigenous health care with school education

Geoffrey M Forbes, Stephen J Davis, Martin D Robson, Anthony F Connell and Peter C Richmond

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 565-566 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: psychology

Patricia Dudgeon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 546 Free

Prevention and Promotion

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health

Amanda J Lee, Dympna Leonard, Aletia A Moloney and Deanne L Minniecon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 547-548 Free

Letters

Why Australia needs a national college of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

John Daniels and Sophie Couzos

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 573 Free

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Exhibition

Growing more Aboriginal health professionals: the 2009 Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Exhibition and show

Lisa R Jackson Pulver

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 527 Free

Capacity to care

Timing of transfer for pregnant women from Queensland Cape York communities to Cairns for birthing

Joanna L Arnold, Caroline M de Costa and Paul W Howat

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 594-596 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association

Peter O’Mara

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 607 Free

Communication, culture and health

Healthy country, healthy people: the relationship between Indigenous health status and “caring for country”

Christopher P Burgess, Fay H Johnston, Helen L Berry, Joseph McDonnell, Dean Yibarbuk, Charlie Gunabarra, Albert Mileran and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 567-572 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: National Indigenous Health Equality Council

Ian Anderson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 546 Free

Prevention and Promotion

The role of energy cost in food choices for an Aboriginal population in northern Australia

Julie K Brimblecombe and Kerin O’Dea

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 549-551 Free

Letters

The capacity of mainstream alcohol and drug treatment services to respond to the needs of Indigenous Australians

Ann M Roche, Kenneth J Pidd and Vinita Duraisingam

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 582 Free

Mind the Gap

Asthma in Indigenous Australians: so much yet to do for Indigenous lung health

Christine R Jenkins, Anne B Chang, Leanne M Poulos and Guy B Marks

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 530-531 Free

Capacity to care

Middle ear disease in Aboriginal children in Perth: analysis of hearing screening data, 1998–2004

Corinne J Williams, Harvey L Coates, Elaine M Pascoe, Yvonne Axford and Irene Nannup

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 598-600 Free

Book reviews

The search for justice

Judy Atkinson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 566 Free

Communication, culture and health

Barriers to participation of Aboriginal people in cancer care: communication in the hospital setting

Shaouli Shahid, Lizzie D Finn and Sandra C Thompson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 574-579 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: dentistry

Christopher J Bourke

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 573 Free

Prevention and Promotion

Lipid treatment guidelines and cardiovascular risk for Aboriginal people in Central Australia

Joanne N Luke, Alex Brown, David N O’Neal, Kerin O’Dea, Alicia J Jenkins, Margaret Kelaher, James D Best and Kevin G Rowley

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 552-556 Free

Letters

Effect of swimming pools on antibiotic use and clinic attendance for infections in two Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Yvette Roe and Robyn A McDermott

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 602 Free

Mind the Gap

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

Shu Q Li, Natalie J Gray, Steve L Guthridge and Sabine L M Pircher

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 532-536 Free

Capacity to care

Improving Indigenous patients’ access to mainstream health services: the Inala experience

Noel E Hayman, Nola E White and Geoffrey K Spurling

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 604-606 Free

Book reviews

Nurturing Aboriginal men’s health

Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 607 Free

Communication, culture and health

Indigenous medical workforce development: current status and future directions

Ian P S Anderson, Shaun C Ewen and Debra A Knoche

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 580-581 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: Aboriginal community controlled health services

Mick Adams

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 593 Free

Research

Incidence and survival after acute myocardial infarction in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1992–2004

Jiqiong You, John R Condon, Yuejen Zhao and Steven Guthridge

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 298-302 Free