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Environment and public health

Perspectives

Why losing Australia's biodiversity matters for human health: insights from the latest State of the Environment assessment

Katherine A Barraclough, Marion Carey, Kenneth D Winkel, Emily Humphries, Brooke Ah Shay and Yi Chao Foong

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 336-340 Free

Medical education

Japanese encephalitis virus: changing the clinical landscape of encephalitis in Australia

Sarah Allen, Celia M Cooper, Ajay Taranath, Allen C Cheng and Philip N Britton

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 344-347

Systematic review

Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: umbrella and systematic review of the global evidence

Emily Banks, Amelia Yazidjoglou, Sinan Brown, Mai Nguyen, Melonie Martin, Katie Beckwith, Amanda Daluwatta, Sai Campbell and Grace Joshy

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 267-275 Free

Letters

Historic breakthrough for public access defibrillation in Australia

Joshua G Kovoor, Gregory J Page and Pramesh Kovoor

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 238-238 Free

Letters

Clinician alert: toxigenic diphtheria cases across North Queensland are on the rise

Allison Hempenstall, Jay Short, Tonia Marquardt, Valmay Fisher and Janice Johnson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 238-238

Editorials

Universal testing for hepatitis B must be accompanied by better linkage with care

Lien Tran and Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 165-166

Letters

Cremation and the medical practitioner

Mark J Ferson, Reannon Johnson and Toni Cains

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 190-191

Perspectives

Australia's political engagement on health and climate change: the MJA–Lancet Countdown indicator and implications for the future

Maddie Heenan, Lucie Rychetnik, Elly Howse, Paul J Beggs, Tarun S Weeramanthri, Fiona Armstrong and Ying Zhang

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 196-202 Free

Perspectives

Designing digital health applications for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins, Ann Borda and Kimberly Humphrey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 106-110 Free

Editorials

Dispelling misconceptions about who uses e‐cigarettes and why

Alexander Larcombe

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 117-118

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Keratinocyte cancer in chronic smokers: is this arsenic exposure?

Lachlan DW Lau, Anneliese Willems and Laura Scardamaglia

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (2): 68-69

Research

The cost‐effectiveness of universal hepatitis B screening for reaching WHO diagnosis targets in Australia by 2030

Yinzong Xiao, Margaret E Hellard, Alexander J Thompson, Christopher Seaman, Jess Howell and Nick Scott

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 168-173 Free

Research

Emergency department presentations during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Queensland (to June 2021): interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben Keijzers, Andrea Marshall, Emma J Hall, Jamie Ranse, Ping Zhang, Gary Grant, Ya‐Ling Huang, Dinesh Palipana, Yang D Teng, Benjamin Gerhardy, Jaimi H Greenslade, Philip Jones and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 120-125 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

An important case of atypical pneumonia

Arvind Yerramilli, Michelle Sam, Aadith Ashok and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 16-17

Letters

Smoking cessation on discharge summaries

Freddy Sitas, Ben Harris‐Roxas, Sarah L White, Fiona A Haigh, Margo L Barr and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 46-46 Free

Research

E‐cigarette use by people who smoke or have recently quit, New South Wales, 2016–2020

Becky Freeman, Katherine Owen, Sandra Rickards, Alecia Brooks, Philip J Clare and Anita Dessaix

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 131-137 Free

Perspectives

Supporting Indigenous health equity strategic planning: a Queensland perspective

Maree R Toombs, Caitlin Curtis and Claire E Brolan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 5-8 Free

Christmas competition

Meals and movies: making our microbiota merry

Olivia Yousef and Stephen De Souza

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 597-600 Free

Research

Associations between COVID‐19 and hospitalisation with respiratory and non‐respiratory conditions: a record linkage study

Stacey L Rowe, Karin Leder, Kylie Dyson, Lalitha Sundaresan, Dennis Wollersheim, Brigid Lynch, Ifrah Abdullahi, Benjamin C Cowie, Nicola Stephens, Terence M Nolan, Sheena G Sullivan, Brett Sutton and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 33-39 Free

Letters

What doctors should consider before prescribing e‐liquids for e‐cigarettes

Alexander Larcombe, David Chapman and Miranda Ween

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (10): 548-548

Perspectives

Implementing mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination for Australian aged care workers

Sally Hall Dykgraaf, Jane Desborough, Anne Parkinson, Elizabeth A Sturgiss, Paul Kelly and Michael Kidd

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 570-574 Free

Editorials

Reducing the burden of group A streptococcal disease in the Northern Territory: the role of chemoprophylaxis for those at greatest risk

Katherine Gibney and Andrew Steer

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (10): 524-525

Letters

Responding to the COVID‐19 pandemic in real time: coordinating a local hospital response using whole genome sequencing of SARS‐CoV‐2

Matthew B Eustace, Ambika Sud, Craig Thompson, Sanmarie Schlebusch and Robert L Horvath

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (10): 546-547

Letters

What doctors should consider before prescribing e‐liquids for e‐cigarettes

Colin P Mendelsohn and Carolyn Beaumont

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (10): 547-547

Perspectives

Healthy indoor air is our fundamental need: the time to act is now

Lidia Morawska, Guy B Marks and Jason Monty

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 578-581 Free