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Research

Cerebral palsy in Australia: birth prevalence, 1995–2016, and differences by residential remoteness: a population-based register study

Hayley Smithers‐Sheedy, Emma Waight, Shona Goldsmith, Sue Reid, Catherine Gibson, Heather Scott, Linda Watson, Megan Auld, Fiona Kay, Clare Wiltshire, Gina Hinwood, Annabel Webb, Tanya Martin, Nadia Badawi and Sarah McIntyre, the ACPR Group

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 533-539 Free

Research

Assessing the adequacy and sustainability of the Northern Territory health workforce with respect to burden of disease and injury, 2009–2021: an analysis of administrative data

Yuejen Zhao, Jo Wright, Renu Unnikrishnan, Ramakrishna Chondur and Danielle Green

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): n/a-n/a Free

Research

Mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole‐of‐population descriptive study

Jessica Judd, Rhiannon M Pilkington, Catia Malvaso, Alexandra M Procter, Alicia Montgomerie, Jemma JA Anderson, Jon N Jureidini, Julie Petersen, John Lynch and Catherine R Chittleborough

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 540-545 Free

Consensus statement

The Future Healthy Countdown 2030 consensus statement: core policy actions and measures to achieve improvements in the health and wellbeing of children, young people and future generations

Kate Lycett, Hannah Lane, Georgie Frykberg, Susan Maury, Carolyn Wallace, Luisa Taafua, Bernie Morris, Anne Hollonds, Pasi Sahlberg, Kevin Kapeke, Ngiare Brown, Jordan Cory, Peter D Sly, Craig A Olsson, Fiona J Stanley, Anna M H Price, Planning Saw, Khalid Muse, Peter S Azzopardi, Susan M Sawyer, Rebecca Glauert, Marketa Reeves, Roslyn Dundas, Sandro Demaio, Rosemary Calder and Sharon R Goldfeld

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S6-S17 Free

Research

Management of people after stroke in 383 Victorian general practices, 2014–2018: analysis of linked stroke registry and general practice data

Muideen T Olaiya, Joosup Kim, Christopher Pearce, Kiran Bam, Dominique A Cadilhac, Nadine E Andrew, Lauren M Sanders, Amanda G Thrift, Mark R Nelson, Seana Gall and Monique F Kilkenny

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 546-553 Free

Perspective

Beyond the silver bullet: closing the equity gap for children within a generation

Sharon R Goldfeld, Elodie O'Connor, Cindy Pham and Sarah Gray, For the Changing Children's Chances Investigator Group

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 508-511 Free

Editorial

Future Healthy Countdown 2030: from passive trickle‐down to active participation for improved health and wellbeing of children, young people and future generations

Kevin Kapeke, Anne Hollonds and Susan Maury

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S3-S5 Free

Perspective

Safeguarding the health and wellbeing of transgender young people

Carmen Pace, Alessandra Chinsen, Ada S Cheung, S. Rachel Skinner, Ken W Knight, Michelle A Tollit, Michelle M Telfer and Ken C Pang

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 516-519 Free

Perspective

Wellbeing, participation and connection in the middle years of childhood

Sharon Bessell, Tim Moore and Gerry Redmond

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S23-S25 Free

Editorial

The association of child protection contact with mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents, and their costs

Paul Hotton

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 531-532 Free

Perspective

Participation of Indigenous children and young people to improve health and wellbeing

Jordan Cory (Kamilaroi), Hope Kuchel (Barkindji), Bonnie Dukakis (Gunditjmara), Rhian Dicker (Palawa) and Sandra Eades (Noongar)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S26-S33 Free

Perspective

Five decades of debate on burnout

Renzo Bianchi and James F Sowden

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): n/a-n/a Free

Research

The economic burden of long COVID in Australia: more noise than signal?

Mary Rose Angeles, Thi Thu Ngan Dinh, Ting Zhao, Barbara Graaff and Martin Hensher

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S31-S39 Free

Medical education

Environmental footprinting in health care: a primer

Jacob Fry, Angie Bone, Keiichiro Kanemoto, Carolynn L Smith and Nick Watts

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 464-467 Free

Editorial

Long COVID in Victoria

David A Watters and Lance Emerson

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S3-S4 Free

Reflection

Living with long COVID and its impact on family and society: a couple's view

Karlie M Flannigan and Gerard M Flannigan

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S10-S11 Free

Research

Persistent symptoms after COVID‐19: an Australian stratified random health survey on long COVID

Alex Holmes, Lance Emerson, Louis B Irving, Emma Tippett, Jeffrey M Pullin, Julie Young, David A Watters and Adina Hamilton

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): S12-S17 Free

Letter to the editor

The seroprevalence of antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus in five New South Wales towns at high risk of infection, 2022

Keira M Glasgow and Kirsty Hope

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 448-448

Research

Changes in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in Australia, 2005–2019, overall and by socio‐demographic characteristics: a population‐based study

Dianna J Magliano, Lei Chen, Jedidiah I Morton, Oyunchimeg Buyadaa, Agus Salim and Jonathan E Shaw

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 473-479 Free

Research letter

A rise in Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections in Victoria in late 2023 and early 2024 detected at two major testing laboratories

Maryza Graham, Thomas Tran, Changxu Zhang, Michelle Sam, Andrew Daley, Kathy Jackson and Chuan Kok Lim

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 436-437 Free

Letter to the editor

Planetary care is good cancer care

Nikki Burdett and Ben Dunne

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 447-447

Research

Recruitment and retention of new doctors in remote and Aboriginal medical services through the Remote Vocational Training Scheme's Targeted Recruitment Strategy: a focus group study

Belinda G O'Sullivan, Veeraja Uppal, Ronda Gurney and Patrick Giddings

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): S23-S28 Free

Research

Perceived stakeholder benefits of continuously training general practitioners in the same rural or remote practice: interviews exploring the Remote Vocational Training Scheme

Belinda G O'Sullivan, Patrick Giddings and Matthew R McGrail

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): S29-S34 Free

Letter to the editor

Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in Australia: current and future perspectives

Alain Braillon

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): 396-397

Perspective

Towards evidence‐based skin checks

Linda K Martin, Pascale Guitera, Georgina V Long, Richard A Scolyer and Anne E Cust

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 407-409 Free