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Indigenous health

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

Prevention and Promotion

Knowledge and attitudes regarding smoking during pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

Conor Gilligan, Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Catherine D’Este, Sandra Eades and Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 557-561 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: ask the experts

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 523 Free

Mind the Gap

How do pregnancy outcomes differ in teenage mothers? A Western Australian study

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

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 537-541 Free

Letters

Indigenous simulated patients: an initiative in “closing the gap”

Shaun C Ewen, Margo E Collins, Jennifer A Schwarz and Eleanor M Flynn

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

Book reviews

Indigenous women and breast cancer

Sandra C Thompson

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

Editorial

A healed and healthy country: understanding healing for Indigenous Australians

Tamara Mackean

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 522-523 Free

Capacity to care

Coronary heart disease events in Aboriginal Australians: incidence in an urban population

Pamela J Bradshaw, Helman S Alfonso, Judith C Finn, Julie Owen and Peter L Thompson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 583-586 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: Oxfam Australia

Andrew Hewett

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

Prevention and Promotion

Adult health checks for Indigenous Australians: the first year’s experience from the Inala Indigenous Health Service

Geoffrey K P Spurling, Noel E Hayman and Anna L Cooney

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 562-564 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: social justice

Tom Calma

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 526 Free

Mind the Gap

“Closing the gap” by 2030: aspiration versus reality in Indigenous health

Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 542-544 Free

Letters

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003: are people living in remote areas worse off?

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 545 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Antecedents of chronic kidney disease in Aboriginal offenders in New South Wales prisons

Beverley F Spiers

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 524-526 Free

Capacity to care

Outcomes of cardiac surgery in Indigenous Australians

Sam J Lehman, Robert A Baker, Philip E Aylward, John L Knight and Derek P Chew

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 588-593 Free

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

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