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Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

A journey of Indigenous identity

Marshall R Watson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 150-151 Free

Letters

Clinical outcomes associated with changes in a chronic disease treatment program in an Australian Aboriginal community

Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 180-181 Free

Letters

Clinical outcomes associated with changes in a chronic disease treatment program in an Australian Aboriginal community

Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 180-181 Free

Letters

Mutual obligation and Indigenous health: thinking through incentives and obligations

John N Burry

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 181-182 Free

Research

Long-term trends in Indigenous deaths from chronic diseases in the Northern Territory: a foot on the brake, a foot on the accelerator

David P Thomas, John R Condon, Ian P Anderson, Shu Q Li, Stephen Halpin, Joan Cunningham and Steven L Guthridge

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 145-149 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Prize: award presentation

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (3): 149 Free

Clinical practice

Muscle pain as an indicator of vitamin D deficiency in an urban Australian Aboriginal population

Jill Benson, Anne Wilson, Nigel Stocks and Nicole Moulding

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (2): 76-77 Free

Task Transfer

When the tide goes out: health workforce in rural, remote and Indigenous communities

Richard B Murray and Ian Wronski

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (1): 37-38 Free

Research

Aboriginal health workers and diabetes care in remote community health centres: a mixed method analysis

Damin Si, Ross S Bailie, Samantha J Togni, Peter H N d'Abbs and Gary W Robinson

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (1): 40-45 Free

Research

Epilepsy in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Far North Queensland

John Archer and Ruth Bunby

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 607-610 Free

Research

Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Queensland Indigenous community

Susan Vlack, Leonie Cox, Anton Y Peleg, Condy Canuto, Christine Stewart, Alzira Conlon, Alex Stephens, Philip Giffard, Flavia Huygens, Adam Mollinger, Renu Vohra and James S McCarthy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (11): 556-559 Free

Research enterprise

Indigenous health research: a critical review of outputs over time

Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Elizabeth M Campbell, Janice J Perkins, Steve V Blunden and Bob B Davis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 502-505 Free

Editorials

Strengthening cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Noel E Hayman, Mark Wenitong, Jenny A Zangger and Elizabeth M Hall

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 485-486 Free

Training and Workforce

The manager

Cindy Shannon, Adrian Carson and Rachel C Atkinson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 530-531 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Unknown family at the taxi stand

Dennis McDermott

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 519-520 Free

Medicine and the community

Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: an insight into Aboriginal health disadvantage and remote Australia

Graeme P Maguire and Carmel Nelson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 506 Free

Editorials

Better late than never: a national approach to trachoma control

Donna B Mak

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 487-488 Free

Letter

The importance of Hand Talk in communication rehabilitation among Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory

Patrick Jassar and Garrett F Hunter

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 532 Free

Training and Workforce

Making a difference: the early impact of an Aboriginal health undergraduate medical curriculum

David Paul, Sandra Carr and Helen Milroy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 522-525 Free

Medicine and the community

B-cell antigen D8/17 is a marker of rheumatic fever susceptibility in Aboriginal Australians and can be tested in remote settings

Zinta Harrington, Kumar Visvanathan, Narelle A Skinner, Nigel Curtis, Bart J Currie and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 507-510 Free

Health inequalities

Causes of inequality in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1981–2000: a decomposition analysis

Yuejen Zhao and Karen Dempsey

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 490-494 Free

Viewpoint

Aboriginal incarceration: health and social impacts

Anthea Susan Krieg

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 534-536 Free

Training and Workforce

Perspectives on Aboriginal community controlled health services

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 526 Free

Medicine and the community

Practical challenges of conducting research into rheumatic fever in remote Aboriginal communities

Malcolm I McDonald, Norma Benger, Alex Brown, Bart J Currie and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 511-513 Free

Health inequalities

The outcome of critically ill Indigenous patients

Kwok Ming Ho, Judith Finn, Geoffrey J Dobb and Steven A R Webb

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 496-499 Free