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Indigenous health

Research

Natural history of chronic kidney disease in Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous children: a 4-year population-based follow-up study

Leigh Haysom, Rita Williams, Elisabeth M Hodson, Pamela A Lopez-Vargas, Leslie P Roy, David M Lyle and Jonathan C Craig

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 303-306 Free

Research

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

Karen Andreasyan and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 307-311 Free

Fertility matters

Could the Baby Bonus be a bonus for babies?

Caroline M de Costa and Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 242-243 Free

Letters

Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous schoolchildren

Loretta R de Plevitz, Judith S Gould and Terrina M Smith

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 286-287 Free

Letters

Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous schoolchildren

Brian D Bowring and Amanda Little

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 286-287 Free

Editorials

Cannabis use in remote Indigenous communities in Australia: endemic yet neglected

K S Kylie Lee, Katherine M Conigrave, George C Patton and Alan R Clough

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 228-229 Free

Book reviews

Better Aboriginal health

Timothy P M Senior

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 1 Free

Editorials

Disproportionate burdens: the multidimensional impacts of climate change on the health of Indigenous Australians

Donna Green, Ursula King and Joe Morrison

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (1): 4-5 Free

Research enterprise

A decade of NHMRC People Support expenditure in review: is support for Indigenous health research increasing?

Sophia Leon de la Barra, Sally Redman, Sandra Eades and Carey Lonsdale

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (1): 28-31 Free

Indigenous health

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

Robert M Parker

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (1): 34-36 Free

Letters

Absence of alcohol withdrawal syndrome in a remote Indigenous community

Stephen A Margolis, Valmae A Ypinazar, Alan R Clough and Ernest Hunter

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (10): 596 Free

Indigenous health — Research

Effect of smoking among Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers on preterm birth and full-term low birthweight

Rachael-Anne Wills and Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 490-494 Free

Indigenous health — Research

The roles of socioeconomic status and Aboriginality in birth outcomes at an urban hospital

Angela T Titmuss, Elizabeth Harris and Elizabeth J Comino

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 495-498 Free

Indigenous health — Research

“All they said was my kidneys were dead”: Indigenous Australian patients’ understanding of their chronic kidney disease

Kate Anderson, Jeannie Devitt, Joan Cunningham, Cilla Preece and Alan Cass

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 499-503 Free

Public health

Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands: results of a comprehensive control program — a postscript

Rae-Lin Huang, Paul J Torzillo and Adrienne C Kirby

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (8): 446 Free

Public health

Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands: results of a comprehensive control program

Rae-Lin Huang, Paul J Torzillo, Vivien A Hammond, Stephanie T Coulter and Adrienne C Kirby

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (8): 442-445 Free

Position statement

Management of bronchiectasis and chronic suppurative lung disease in Indigenous children and adults from rural and remote Australian communities

Anne B Chang, Keith Grimwood, Graeme Maguire, Paul T King, Peter S Morris and Paul J Torzillo

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 386-393 Free

Letters

Prevalence of trachoma in Aboriginal communities in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory in 2007

Katrina Roper, Claude-Edouard C Michel, Paul M Kelly and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 409 Free

Letters

Effect of community consultation on recruitment of Indigenous women to a human papillomavirus prevalence study

Christine M Read, Deborah J Bateson and Christine J Ohrin

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 233 Free

Public health

Invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland: an update, 2005–2007

Jeffrey N Hanna, Jan L Humphreys and Denise M Murphy

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 43-46 Free

Research enterprise

Indigenous child health: urgent need for improved data to underpin better health outcomes

Emily Fremantle, Yvonne A Zurynski, Deepika Mahajan, Heather D’Antoine and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 588-591 Free

Letters

The Northern Territory Emergency Response: a chance to heal Australia’s worst sore

William J H Glasson

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 623 Free

The Great Divide

Survival of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Queenslanders after a diagnosis of lung cancer: a matched cohort study

Michael D Coory, Adele C Green, Janelle Stirling and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 562-566 Free

Matters arising

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

Addressing diseases of disadvantage

Delivery of child health services in Indigenous communities: implications for the federal government’s emergency intervention in the Northern Territory

Ross S Bailie, Damin Si, Michelle C Dowden, Christine M Connors, Lynette O’Donoghue, Helen E Liddle, Catherine M Kennedy, Rhonda J Cox, Hugh P Burke, Sandra C Thompson and Alex D H Brown

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 615-618 Free