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Photobacterium damselae and Vibrio harveyi hand infection from marine exposure
Improving clinical outcomes through prompt and early targeted use of antibiotics
Ayesha Akram MB BS · Robert P Stevens MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA · Pamela Konecny MD, DTM
Ethical challenges for doctors working in immigration detention
Responsibility for health care in detention must be transferred from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to an independent body
Peter Young MB BS, FRANZCP
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians position statement on refugee and asylum seeker health
The RACP urges a rights-based and humane approach to people seeking asylum
Georgia A Paxton MB BS(Hons), MPH, FRACP · Sarah Cherian MB BS(Hons), FRACP, PhD · Karen J Zwi MB BCh, FRACP, MRCP(UK)
Perspectives from the field: Ebola response in Sierra Leone
An Australian doctor reflects on a difficult but satisfying 6-week placement at an Ebola Treatment Centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Rosalie Schultz FAFPHM, FRACGP, FARGP
The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014
In violating children’s basic rights, we seriously compromise their mental and emotional health and normal development
Gillian Triggs LLB, LLM, PhD
Let the children go — advocacy for children in detention by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
The detention of asylum seeker children must stop now
Nicholas J Talley MD, PhD, FRACP · Karen J Zwi FRACP, MRCP, MSc
Call for Australia's ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
Independent oversight of immigration detention is essential to protect asylum seekers’ human rights
John-Paul Sanggaran MB BS, MHMed, BHSc · Deborah Zion PhD
Talking About The Smokes: a large-scale, community-based participatory research project
Objective: To describe the Talking About The Smokes (TATS) project according to the World Health Organization guiding principles for conducting community-based participatory research (PR) involving indigenous peoples, to assist others planning large-scale PR projects. Design, setting and participants: The TATS project was initiated in Australia in 2010 as part of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, and surveyed a representative sample of 2522 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults to assess the impact of tobacco control policies. The PR process of the TATS project, which aimed to build partnerships to create equitable conditions for knowledge production, was mapped and summarised onto a framework adapted from the WHO principles. Main outcome measures: Processes describing consultation and approval, partnerships and research agreements, communication, funding, ethics and consent, data and benefits of the research. Results: The TATS project involved baseline and follow-up surveys conducted in 34 Aboriginal community-controlled health services and one Torres Strait community. Consistent with the WHO PR principles, the TATS project built on community priorities and strengths through strategic partnerships from project inception, and demonstrated the value of research agreements and trusting relationships to foster shared decision making, capacity building and a commitment to Indigenous data ownership. Conclusions: Community-based PR methodology, by definition, needs adaptation to local settings and priorities. The TATS project demonstrates that large-scale research can be participatory, with strong Indigenous community engagement and benefits.
Sophia Couzos FAFPHM, FACRRM, FRACGP · Anna K Nicholson GDipPH, BPhty(Hons) · Jennifer M Hunt MPH, FAFPHM, PhD · Maureen E Davey MB BS, FAFPHM · Josephine K May · Pele T Bennet BHSc · Darren W Westphal MPH · David P Thomas MB BS, PhD, FAFPHM
World No Tobacco Day reminds us of the desolating effects of smoking on health
Promoting public health through combatting the scourge of tobacco is of primary importance
Stephen Leeder
Global advocacy for controlling the tobacco industry
A tobacco-free world is attainable — if we are prepared to work for it
Robert Beaglehole DSc · Ruth Bonita MPH, PhD, ONZM
The old African queen lending a hand to improve health in Malawi
A doctor who founded a nation’s medical system and the many lives of his ship
Donald A Howarth BSc(Hons), MB BS, FACRRM
Abolishing the world's worst weapons
Nuclear weapons abolition is a medical imperative
Susan J Wareham OAM, MB BS
Latent infection in HIV-positive refugees and other immigrants in Australia
Evidence of value in screening for TB, strongyloidiasis and schistosomiasis in this population
Greta A Gurry · Claire Dendle MB BS, FRACP, GCHPE · Ian J Woolley FRACP, MD, DTMH
Ethical challenges for doctors working in immigration detention
An example of how boycotting the system can achieve result
Robert J Davies MB BS, FRACS
Ethical challenges for doctors working in immigration detention
The case against immigration detention is irrefutable
on behalf of the J'Accuse Coalition and Doctors for Refugees*
Missing malaria? Potential obstacles to diagnosis and hypnozoite eradication
The limited availability of primaquine puts returned travellers at risk
Richard S Bradbury PhD, FFS(RCPA), FASM · Gemma Robertson BMedSci, MB BS · Robert E Norton MD, FAFPHM FRCPA · Andrew W Taylor-Robinson PhD, FRCPath, FACTM
The Australian medical response to Typhoon Haiyan
Meeting standards in disaster response
Nicholas R Coatsworth MB BS(Hons), MIntPH, FRACP
Peers or pariahs? The quest for fairer conditions for international medical graduates in Australia
Implementing recommendations of the parliamentary inquiry and international codes of practice on employment of IMGs
Carlos Zubaran MD, MHM, PhD · Susan Douglas MD, FACRRM, GradDipHE
Will current health reforms in south and east Asia improve equity?
Dietary changes that follow economic development will increase the risks of non-communicable disease among the poor
Rohan Jayasuriya
Australia's treatment of refugee and asylum seeker children: the views of Australian paediatricians
Mandatory detention is a form of child abuse and paediatricians strongly disagree with offshore processing
Elizabeth J M Corbett BA, LLB(Hons), GDipLegalP · Hasantha Gunasekera MIPH(Hons), FRACP, PhD · Alanna Maycock MA, BSc, DipHE · David Isaacs MD, FRACP, FRCPCH
The importance of effectively combating HIV/AIDS through tackling the social aspects of the pandemic post-2015.
A Kenyan baby brings understanding of the effect of HIV diagnosis and global health’s responsibility
Heather Kitt BSc, MB BCh BAO
Three ages of global health assistance
Pushing public health to where it needs to go
Henry Greenberg MD
Vulnerability, hysteria and fear — conquering Ebola virus
Good infection control minimises the risk to Australia from the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease
Arinjay Banerjee BS, MS · Siobhan M Mor BVSc, PhD, MANZCVS · Jen Kok MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA · Tania C Sorrell MB BS, MD, FRACP · Grant A Hill-Cawthorne MB BChir, MA, MRCP
Don't be scared, be angry: the politics and ethics of Ebola
Lessons for public health priorities in Australia
L Claire Hooker PhD · Christopher Mayes PhD · Chris Degeling PhD, BVSc · Gwendolyn L Gilbert MD, FRACP, FRCPA · Ian H Kerridge BMed(Hons), FRACP, FRCPA
