Volume 183, Issue 8 | The Medical Journal of Australia

Policy changes

Towards a national agenda for youth?

George C Patton, Glenn Bowes, Susan M Sawyer, Ross Homel and Fiona J Stanley

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 394-395

National health and development youth policies: valuable exercises or bureaucratic niceties?

David Hanna and Sue Bagshaw

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 395-397

Healthy youth development: getting our priorities right

Michael D Resnick

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 398-400 Free

Wellbeing

Life in a time of uncertainty: optimising the health and wellbeing of young Australians

Richard M Eckersley, Ani Wierenga and Johanna Wyn

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 402-404 Free

Self-management in adolescents with chronic illness. What does it mean and how can it be achieved?

Susan M Sawyer and Rosalie A Aroni

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 405-409 Free

Confidential health care for adolescents: reconciling clinical evidence with family values

Lena A Sanci, Susan M Sawyer, Dagmar M Haller, George C Patton and Melissa S-L Kang

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 410-414 Free

Being “Dolly Doctor”

Melissa S-L Kang

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 415

In Consultation

Improving adolescents’ access to primary health care

Lena A Sanci, Melissa S-L Kang and B Jane Ferguson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 416-417

Breaking away from the medical model: perceptions of health and health care in suburban Sydney youth

Carolyn H Kefford, Lyndal J Trevena and Simon M Willcock

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 418-421 Free

A patient with autism and severe depression: medical and ethical challenges for an adolescent medicine unit

S Rachel Skinner, Cindy Ng, Ann McDonald and Tamara Walters

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 422-424 Free

Risky Times

Adolescents and the media: why don’t paediatricians and parents “get it”?

Victor C Strasburger

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 425-426

Health risk screening in adolescents: room for improvement in a tertiary inpatient setting

Michele S M Yeo, Lyndal M Bond and Susan M Sawyer

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 427-429 Free

Adolescent alcohol problems: whose responsibility is it anyway?

Yvonne A Bonomo

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 430-432 Free

World Of Difference

The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: findings to date on adolescents

Eve M Blair, Stephen R Zubrick and Adele H Cox

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 433-435 Free

Cultural diversity in adolescent health care

David L Bennett, Peter Chown and Melissa S-L Kang

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 436-438 Free

Departments

In Focus: promoting mental health through photography

Vanessa D'Souza

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 397

Practical evidence in favour of mature-minor consent in primary care research

Dagmar M Haller, Lena A Sanci, George C Patton and Susan M Sawyer

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (8): 439

"Chasing The Dream: Youth Faces of the Millennium development goals"