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Volume 205 Issue 1

4 July 2016

Editorials

A new look MJA

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 3 Free

We need transformative change in Aboriginal health

Shane Houston

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 17-18 Free

Access to contraception for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: necessary but not sufficient

Sarah L Larkins and Priscilla Page

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 18-19 Free

Carers of Indigenous children: services and systems failure? Where to next?

Beth Mah and Kym M Rae

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 19-20 Free

News

From the Lowitja Institute

The health of indigenous and tribal peoples across the world: The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration

Romlie Mokak

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 6 Free

News

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 6 Free

Perspectives

Towards an integrated model for child and family services in central Australia

Donna Ah Chee, John D Boffa and Edward Tilton

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 8 Free

Are Indigenous mortality gaps closing: how to tell, and when?

Ian T Ring, Tracy Dixon, Raymond W Lovett and Fadwa Al-Yaman

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 11 Free

Medical education

Clinical skills

Clinical examination: evidence and eminence

Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair and Simon O’Connor

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 13

Clinical skills

Ankles jerk — yes, but how?

David B Williams

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 14-15

Obituary

Caetano Francisco da Piedade Quadros, MB BCh BAO, DPH, FRACMA, FAFPHM

Jag Gill

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 16

Poem

An insight

Leslie M Taylor

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 16

Research

Uptake of long-acting, reversible contraception in three remote Aboriginal communities: a population-based study

Emma K Griffiths, Julia V Marley, Domenica Friello and David N Atkinson

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 21-25 Free

Psychological distress in carers of Aboriginal children in urban New South Wales: findings from SEARCH (phase one)

Anna B Williamson, Catherine A D’Este, Kathleen F Clapham, Sandra J Eades, Sally Redman and Beverley Raphael

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 27-32 Free

Short report

Increasing Indigenous self-harm and suicide in the Kimberley: an audit of the 2005–2014 data

Catherine McHugh, Anita Campbell, Murray Chapman and Sivasankaran Balaratnasingam

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 33 Free

Systematic review

Spirometry reference values in Indigenous Australians: a systematic review

Tamara L Blake, Anne B Chang, Helen L Petsky, Leanne T Rodwell, Michael G Brown, Debra C Hill, Bruce Thompson and Margaret S McElrea

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 35-40 Free

Letters

Pitfalls in photographing radiological images from computer screens

Tom R Sutherland

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 42

Pitfalls in photographing radiological images from computer screens

Jeffrey V Rosenfeld

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 42

Non-reimbursement for preventable health care-acquired conditions

Linda Swan

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 42

Non-reimbursement for preventable health care-acquired conditions

Christopher Davis

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 42-43

Careers

Royal honours awarded

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): Free