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Indigenous health

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Exhibition

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana 2011

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 489-559 Free

Letters

The health of urban Aboriginal people: insufficient data to close the gap

Elizabeth J Comino, Lisa R Jackson Pulver and Jenny A Knight

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 270 Free

Letters

The relationship between influenza and invasive pneumococcal disease in the Northern Territory, 2005–2009

Laura J Edwards, Peter G Markey, Heather M Cook, James M Trauer and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 207 Free

Public health

Iodine status of Aboriginal teenagers in the Darwin region before mandatory iodine fortification of bread

Dorothy E M Mackerras, Gurmeet R Singh and Creswell J Eastman

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 126-130 Free

Public health

Vitamin D insufficiency in Aboriginal Australians

Simon J Vanlint, Howard A Morris, Jonathan W Newbury and Alan J Crockett

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 131-134 Free

Letters

Azithromycin treatment levels inadequate for recommended trachoma control guidelines

Margaret Kelaher, Angeline S Ferdinand and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (2): 102 Free

Letters

Neuropsychological problems and alcohol availability appear to be key factors in continued heavy alcohol use by Aboriginal Australians

Kylie M Dingwall, Paul Maruff and Sheree Cairney

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 50-51 Free

True stories

From Northern Ireland to northern Australia: medicine in the Top End

R G Peter Watson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 709-710 Free

Research

Cancer incidence and mortality in Indigenous Australians in Queensland, 1997–2006

Suzanne P Moore, Peter K O’Rourke, Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Gail Garvey, Adèle C Green, Michael D Coory and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 590-593 Free

Indigenous health

Haemodialysis outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients of remote Kimberley region origin

Julia V Marley, Hannah K Dent, Maree Wearne, Cherelle Fitzclarence, Carmel Nelson, Karen Siu, Kevin Warr and David Atkinson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): 516-520 Free

Indigenous health

The health of urban Aboriginal people: insufficient data to close the gap

Sandra J Eades, Bronwen Taylor, Sandra Bailey, Anna B Williamson, Jonathan C Craig and Sally Redman

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): 521-524 Free

Editorials

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities forgotten in new Australian National Action Plan for Human Influenza Pandemic: “Ask us, listen to us, share with us”

Adrian Miller and David N Durrheim, on behalf of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Influenza Study Group

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): 316-317 Free

Medicine and the community

Predictors of sexual intercourse and rapid-repeat pregnancy among teenage mothers: an Australian prospective longitudinal study

Lucy N Lewis, Dorota A Doherty, Martha Hickey and S Rachel Skinner

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): 338-342 Free

Position statement

Chronic suppurative lung disease and bronchiectasis in children and adults in Australia and New Zealand. A position statement from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Australian Lung Foundation

Anne B Chang, Scott C Bell, Cass A Byrnes, Keith Grimwood, Peter W Holmes, Paul T King, John Kolbe, Louis I Landau, Graeme P Maguire, Malcolm I McDonald, David W Reid, Francis C Thien and Paul J Torzillo

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): 356-365 Free

Public health

How much is too much? Alcohol consumption and related harm in the Northern Territory

Steven J Skov, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Shu Q Li, Sabine Pircher and Steven Whetton

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): 269-272 Free

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

Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Cultural safety in health for Aboriginal people: will it work in Australia?

Rosemary van den Berg

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 136-137 Free

Research

Health service attendance patterns in an urban Aboriginal health service

Karen M Flegg, Christine B Phillips, Anne L Collins, Peter G Sharp, Meetali Kanagasundaram, Ray W Lovett and Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 146-148 Free

Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Some healing path

Kim J Scott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 680-681 Free

Correction

Impact of income management on store sales in the Northern Territory

Julie K Brimblecombe, Joseph McDonnell, Adam Barnes, Joanne Garnggulkpuy Dhurrkay, David P Thomas and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 728 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

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

After the intervention

The Northern Territory Emergency Response and cannabis use in remote Indigenous communities

Dennis A Gray

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 555 Free

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

At the frontline

Using child health checks to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity among urban Indigenous children

Annie R Fonda, Geoffrey K Spurling, Deborah A Askew, Peter S W Davies and Noel E Hayman

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 596 Free