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Volume 191 Issue 2

20 July 2009

Editorials

Darwinian evolution and general practice

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 51-52

Promoting evidence-based non-drug interventions: time for a non-pharmacopoeia?

Paul P Glasziou

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 52-53

Postcard from New York

President Obama’s health care plan

Jeffrey D Zajac

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 54

Reforming Policy

What impact will the Australian Government’s proposed national health care reforms have on Australian general practice?

Michael R Kidd

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 55-57

General practice reforms, 1989–2009

William Coote

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 58-61

Red sand and stingers — reform in general practice

Paul R Mara

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 62-63

“Barking up the right tree”: challenges for health care reform

Joachim P Sturmberg, Diana E O’Halloran, Claire Jackson, Christopher D Mitchell and Carmel M Martin

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 64-66 Free

An open letter to the federal Minister for Health from a general practitioner in outback Australia

Susan M Wearne

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 67-69

Australian primary health care centres: de facto Super Clinics?

Thomas D Brett

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 70

Workforce

Medical workforce planning: let’s keep it current

Deborah A Askew, Naomi R Hansar and Marie-Louise B Dick

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 72-73

Work intentions and opinions of general practice registrars

Thomas D Brett, Diane E Arnold-Reed, Cam T Phan, Robert G Moorhead and Dana A Hince

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 73-74

Retirement intentions of general practitioners aged 45–65 years

Thomas D Brett, Diane E Arnold-Reed, Dana A Hince, Ian K Wood and Robert G Moorhead

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 75-77 Free

Doctors trading places: the Isolated Practitioner Peer Support Scheme

John G Moran, Sue L Page, Hudson H Birden, Louise M Fisher and Naree J Hancock

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 78-80 Free

Australia’s primary health care workforce — research informing policy

Kirsty A Douglas, Frith K Rayner, Laurann E Yen, Robert W Wells, Nicholas J Glasgow and John S Humphreys

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 81-84 Free

Models Of Care

Coordination of care for patients with chronic disease

Mark F Harris, Bibiana C Chan and Sarah M Dennis

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 85-86

Features of effective primary health care models in rural and remote Australia: a case-study analysis

John Wakerman, John S Humphreys, Robert Wells, Pim Kuipers, Judith A Jones, Philip Entwistle and Leigh Kinsman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 88-91 Free

Enhancing care, improving quality: the six roles of the general practice nurse

Christine B Phillips, Christopher Pearce, Sally Hall, Marjan Kljakovic, Bonnie Sibbald, Kathryn Dwan, Julie Porritt and Rachel Yates

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 92-97 Free

Do Team Care Arrangements address the real issues in the management of chronic disease?

Paul A Hartigan, Tuck Meng Soo and Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 99-100 Free

“The first port of call is always the doctor”: general practitioner roles in addressing social inclusion

Julaine M Allan, Patrick Ball and Margaret M Alston

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 101

Medical education

Teaching capacity in general practice: results from a survey of practices and supervisors in South Australia

Caroline O Laurence and Linda E Black

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 102-104 Free

A tale of three hospitals: solving learning and workforce needs together

Tarun K Sen Gupta, Richard B Murray, Neil S Beaton, David J Farlow, Clare B Jukka and Natasha L Coventry

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 105-109 Free

Survey of views of metropolitan general practitioners about teaching medical students

Nancy J Sturman, Patricia M Régo and Marie-Louise B Dick

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 110

In Clinical Practice

From research and guidelines to the consultation: five ways to improve blood pressure management in clinical practice

Mark R Nelson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 111-112

Improving general practice consultations for older people with asthma: a cluster randomised control trial

Dianne P Goeman, Lena A Sanci, Simon L Scharf, Michael Bailey, Robyn E O’Hehir, Christine R Jenkins and Jo A Douglass

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 113-117 Free

Reducing the impact of unemployment on health: revisiting the agenda for primary health care

Elizabeth Harris and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 119-122 Free

An early general practice trial of antidepressants: interview with the trialist, Tim Blashki

Bruce Arroll, Timothy G Blashki and Grant A Blashki

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 123-125

General and relative time in urban general practice

Oliver R Frank

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 125

Medicines for breastfeeding women: a postal survey of general practitioners in Victoria

Lisa H Amir and Marie V Pirotta

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 126

Basic health education is for schools, not doctors, to provide

Tony A Marshal

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (2): 127