Volume 172 Issue 8

Editorials

• Reducing the burden of injury Robyn Norton, Mark Stevenson (MJA 2000; 172: 358-359)
• Safety first: reducing exposure to allogeneic blood Robert W Beal (MJA 2000; 172: 359-360)
• Mortality from cardiovascular disease is too high outside capital cities Richard F Heller (MJA 2000; 172: 360-361)
• A new medical school for regional Australia Richard B Hays (MJA 2000; 172: 362-363)

Research

• Use of interventions to minimise perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion in Australia A survey by the International Study of Perioperative Transfusion (ISPOT) study group
• David A Henry, Kim M Henderson, Jayne L Fryer, Carla J Treloar, Katherine M McGrath, Sandra F Deveridge (MJA 2000; 172: 365-369)
• Excess coronary mortality among Australian men and women living outside the capital city statistical divisions
  Peter T Sexton, Tiina-Liisa H Sexton (MJA 2000; 172: 370-374)

Medicine and the community

• Who's overweight? Comparison of the medical definition and community views Susan M Donath (MJA 2000; 172: 375-377)

Public Health

• Social determinants of health: from observation to policy Michael Marmot (MJA 2000; 172: 379-382)

Systematic Review

• Automatic external defibrillators: changing the way we manage ventricular fibrillation Karen L Smith, Peter A Cameron, Anna Peeters, Alastair D McR Meyer, John J McNeil (MJA 2000; 172: 384-388)

Personal Perspectives

• The road to Damascus for two professors. Perspectives from a surgeon turned hospital chaplain Irwin B Faris (MJA 2000; 172: 389-390)
• A metamorphosis: doctor to chaplain David B Allbrook (MJA 2000; 172: 390-391)

MJA Practice Essentials -- Neurology

• Neurological disorders Graeme J Hankey, Samuel F Berkovic (MJA 2000; 172: 393)
• Transient ischaemic attacks and stroke Graeme J Hankey (MJA 2000; 172: 394-400)