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Volume 178 Issue 1

6 January 2003

From the editor’s desk

eMJA: In This Issue, 6 January 2003

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 4 Free

Editorials

West Nile virus: is there a message for Australia?

John S Mackenzie, Roy A Hall and David W Smith

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 5-6

Disease and death in Papua New Guinea

Sirus Naraqi, Bairi Feling and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 7-8

Global health

Whither the World Health Organization?

Michael A Reid and E Jim Pearse

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 9-12 Free

Working with funding agencies in the delivery of healthcare in the Asia Pacific region

Mu Li and Creswell J Eastman

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 13-16 Free

Health for all beyond 2000: the demise of the Alma-Ata Declaration and primary health care in developing countries

John J Hall and Richard Taylor

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 17-20 Free

An evolving model for training and education in resource-poor settings: teaching health workers to fish

Christopher J Morgan and Peter W Deutschmann

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 21-25 Free

Australian medical schools and colleges working with developing countries

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 26-29

Public health

The morning after the night before: campfires revisited

John F Fraser, Kelvin L Choo, Roy M Kimble and David Sutch

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 30 Free

Medicine and the community

First-aid management of minor burns in children: a prospective study of children presenting to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney

Rebecca A McCormack, Erik R La Hei and Hugh C O Martin

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 31-33 Free

Bites and stings

Jellyfish envenoming syndromes: unknown toxic mechanisms and unproven therapies

Paul M Bailey, Mark Little, George A Jelinek and Jacqueline A Wilce

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 34-37

Severity of Irukandji syndrome and nematocyst identification from skin scrapings

Truc T Huynh, Peter Pereira, Richard Mulcahy, Paul Cullen, Jamie Seymour, Teresa Carrette and Mark Little

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 38-41 Free

Letters

Ethics review and use of reminder letters in postal surveys: are current practices compromising an evidence-based approach?

Stuart C Howell, Susan Quine and Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 43

Ethics review and use of reminder letters in postal surveys: are current practices compromising an evidence-based approach?

Jeanette E Ward

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 43-44

Withdrawal of methylphenobarbitone

Mervyn J Eadie

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 44

Prevalence of pain among nursing home residents in rural New South Wales

C Roger Goucke

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 44

Pain management programs in residential aged care

Robert H Llewellyn-Jones, Karen A Baikie, Heather E Smithers and Philip D Funnell

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 44-45

Halting the growth in diagnostic testing

Warwick Carter

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 45

In reply: Halting the growth in diagnostic testing

Rohan J H Hammett and Roger D Harris

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 46

An interventional program for diagnostic testing in the emergency department

Iain B Gosbell, Peter J Collignon, John D Turnidge, Christopher H Heath and Joan L Faoagali

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 46-47

An interventional program for diagnostic testing in the emergency department

Peter Gambell

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 47

In reply: An interventional program for diagnostic testing in the emergency department

Peter J Stuart

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 47-48

Measuring outcomes in patients with depression or anxiety: an essential part of clinical practice

Anthony Dinnen

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 48

In reply: Measuring outcomes in patients with depression and anxiety: an essential part of clinical practice

Gavin Andrews, Ian B Hickie and Tracey A Davenport

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 48

Correction

The effectiveness of coordinated care for people with chronic respiratory disease

Brian J Smith, Heather J McElroy, Richard E Ruffin, Adrian R Heard, Peter A Frith, Malcolm W Battersby, Adrian J Esterman, Peter Del Fante and Peter J McDonald

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 47

Snapshot

An unusual case of clubbing: primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy

Rabindra N Das, H R Rahu and Rajesh Biswas

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 25 Free

Obituary

Timothy George Calvert MurrellAM CLJ MD MB BS FRACGP DTM&H

Dedee Blackburn Murrell and Robert G Moorhead

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 33 Free

Book review

Stoking the fires of drug controversy

David G Penington

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1):

Columns

eMJA: In other journals - 6 January 2003

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (1): 42