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Indigenous health

The Research Agenda

Doing more to improve Indigenous health: the new NHMRC Road Map

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 610-611 Free

Society, Culture and Health

Enduring dilemmas of Indigenous health

Emma E Kowal and Yin C Paradies

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 599-600 Free

At the frontline

Acute rheumatic fever in Indigenous people in North Queensland: some good news at last?

Jeffrey N Hanna and Michele F Clark

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 581-584 Free

Defining the gap

Incidence of type 2 diabetes in two Indigenous Australian populations: a 6-year follow-up study

Robyn A McDermott, Ming Li and Sandra K Campbell

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 562-565 Free

The Research Agenda

Strategies for increasing high-quality intervention research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: views of leading researchers

Jessica M Stewart, Rob W Sanson-Fisher, Sandra J Eades and Nicole M Mealing

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 612-615 Free

After the intervention

Health impacts of the Northern Territory intervention

Peter O’Mara

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 546-548 Free

Society, Culture and Health

“You’re always hearing about the stats ... death happens so often”: new perspectives on barriers to Aboriginal participation in cardiac rehabilitation

Kate P Taylor, Julie S Smith, Lyn Dimer, Mohammed Ali, Narelle Wilson, Tyra R Thomas and Sandra C Thompson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 602 Free

At the frontline

Hospitalisation of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory for lower respiratory illness in the first year of life

Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Paul J Torzillo and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 586-590 Free

Defining the gap

Mental disorders due to substance use and cardiovascular disease risk in Aboriginal adults

Zhiqiang Wang, Damin Si and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 566 Free

Pandemic influenza

Disproportionate impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on Indigenous people in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory

Shaun M Flint, Joshua S Davis, Jiunn-Yih Su, Erin P Oliver-Landry, Benjamin A Rogers, Aaron Goldstein, Jane H Thomas, Uma Parameswaran, Colin Bigham, Kevin Freeman, Paul Goldrick and Steven Y C Tong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 617-622 Free

After the intervention

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 (10): 549-554 Free

Society, Culture and Health

Emerging themes in Aboriginal child and adolescent mental health: findings from a qualitative study in Sydney, New South Wales

Anna B Williamson, Beverley Raphael, Sally Redman, John Daniels, Sandra J Eades and Naomi Mayers

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 603-605 Free

At the frontline

Rates of radiologically confirmed pneumonia as defined by the World Health Organization in Northern Territory Indigenous children

Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Debbie M Taylor-Thomson, Anne B Chang, Paul J Torzillo, Peter S Morris, Grant A Mackenzie, Gavin R Wheaton, Paul A Bauert, Margaret P De Campo, John F De Campo and Alan R Ruben

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 592-595 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

Book review

“Closing the gap” by opening hearts

John Boulton

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 584 Free

Letters

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

William B Grant

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Letters

Pneumonia risk stratification in tropical Australia: does the SMART-COP score apply?

Joshua S Davis, Allen C Cheng, Bart J Currie and Nicholas M Anstey

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (9): 542-543 Free

Letters

High rates of amputation among Indigenous people in Western Australia

Paul E Norman, Deborah E Schoen, Joel M Gurr and Marlene L Kolybaba

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (7): 421 Free

Research

The prevalence and causes of vision loss in Indigenous Australians: the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey

Hugh R Taylor, Jing Xie, Sarah Fox, Ross A Dunn, Anna-Lena Arnold and Jill E Keeffe

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 312-318 Free

Letters

The new “Indigenous health” incentive payment: issues and challenges

Aniello Iannuzzi

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 354 Free

Research

The prevalence of trachoma in Australia: the National Indigenous Eye Health Survey

Hugh R Taylor, Sarah S Fox, Jing Xie, Ross A Dunn, Anna-Lena M R Arnold and Jill E Keeffe

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (5): 248-253 Free