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Volume 219 Issue 11

11 December 2023

Editor’s choice

Reflecting on what makes a medical journal in 2023: local, regional and planetary connections

Elizabeth Zuccala and Virginia Barbour, on behalf of the MJA editorial team

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 507-510 Free

Perspectives

Planetary health: a new standard for medical education

Catherine GA Pendrey, Sonia Chanchlani, Laura J Beaton and Diana L Madden

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 512-515 Open Access

Chronic suppurative lung disease and bronchiectasis in children, adolescents and adults in Australia and New Zealand: TSANZ position statement summary

Keith Grimwood, Emma Kennedy, Maree Toombs, Paul J Torzillo and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 516-519 Open Access

Is BCG vaccination of possums the solution to the Buruli ulcer epidemic in south‐eastern Australia?

Daniel P O'Brien, Kim Blasdell, Stephen Muhi, Ben J Marais, Bryce Buddle, Bridgette McNamara and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 520-522 Open Access

Medical education

Lessons from practice

Back pain in an Australian farmer: an unusual case of cryptococcal osteomyelitis

Michael D Riceman, Caitlyn Sun, John Pierides, Jennifer Catford, Renjy Nelson and Anushia Ashokan

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 523-525 Open Access

Lessons from practice

A thorny case of spastic paralysis

Travis Lines, Aadith Ashok, Sadid F Khan and Michael J Loftus

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 526-527

Editorials

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia a world leader in neglecting its responsibilities

Paul J Beggs and Ying Zhang

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 528-529 Free

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, Stephen Hancocks, Richard C Horton, Laurie Laybourn‐Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia M Sharief, Paul Yonga and Chris Zielinski

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 530-532 Open Access

Advancing the Australian global health community's commitment to climate change and global health

Angie Bone, Prabhleen Kaur, Anthony Capon, Vivian Kwang‐wen Lin, Sione Tu'itahi, Kathryn Bowen, Nick Watts, Jane RW Fisher, Paul J Stewart, Helen Evans and Selina Namchee Lo

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 533-534 Free

Research

The value of maternity care in Queensland, 2012–18, based on an analysis of administrative data: a retrospective observational study

Emily J Callander, Joanne C Enticott, Bonnie Eklom, Jenny Gamble and Helena J Teede

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 535-541 Open Access

The burden of occupational injury attributable to high temperatures in Australia, 2014–19: a retrospective observational study

Blesson M Varghese, Alana Hansen, Nick Mann, Jingwen Liu, Ying Zhang, Tim R Driscoll, Geoffrey G Morgan, Keith Dear, Anthony Capon, Michelle Gourley, Vanessa Prescott, Vergil Dolar and Peng Bi

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 542-548 Open Access

Research letter

COVID‐19 vaccination of children with refugee backgrounds in Western Australia: a retrospective observational study

Thomas Volkman, Roisin Clarke, Jack Anstey and Sarah Cherian

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 549-550 Open Access

Erratum

Erratum

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 550-550 Free

Systematic review

COVID‐19 rapid antigen tests approved for self‐testing in Australia: published diagnostic test accuracy studies and manufacturer‐supplied information. A systematic review

Katy JL Bell, Yuyang Li, Ellie Medcalf and Deonna Ackermann

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 551-558 Open Access

Letters

It's time for Australian hospitals to be all‐electric (and powered by 100% renewable energy)

Ben Dunne, Michael Forrester and Eugenie Kayak

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 559-559 Open Access

A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial

Alain Braillon

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 559-560 Free

A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial

Jasmin Grigg, Victoria Manning and Dan I Lubman

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 560-560 Open Access