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Environment and public health

Letters

Australian doctors need to catch up with population policy

Robin I W Collin

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 191-192

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Understanding Australia’s influenza pandemic policy on the strategic use of the antiviral drug stockpile

James M McCaw, James G Wood, Emma S McBryde, Terry M Nolan, Joseph T Wu, Marc Lipsitch and Jodie McVernon

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 136-137

Correction

Avoiding the tragedy of another balcony collapse

Shinichiro Sakata, Craig A McBride, James W Nixon and Roy M Kimble

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 192

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Swine flu update: bringing home the bacon

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (3): 138-140 Free

Clinical update

A pandemic that’s not bird flu? Pigs might fly

Sanjaya N Senanayake

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (1): 38-40 Free

Letters

Childhood obesity in Australia remains a widespread health concern that warrants population-wide prevention programs

Rae-Chi Huang, Fiona J Stanley and Lawrence J Beilin

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (1): 45-47

Letters

Childhood obesity in Australia remains a widespread health concern that warrants population-wide prevention programs

Lyn M Roberts, Tessa R Letcher, Alexandra A Gason and Tim Lobstein

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (1): 45-47

Editorials

Is Clostridium difficile a threat to Australia’s biosecurity?

Thomas V Riley

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (12): 661-662

Editorials

National alcohol policy after “alcopops”: what next?

Steven J Skov, on behalf of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Alcohol Advisory Group.*

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (12): 662-663

Letters

Health experts reject industry-backed funding for alcohol research

Peter G Miller, Kypros Kypri, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Steven J Skov and George Rubin

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (12): 713-714

Letters

Health experts reject industry-backed funding for alcohol research

Trish M Worth

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (12): 713-714

Letters

Mandating sustainability in Australian hospitals

Forbes McGain, Grant A Blashki, Kevin P Moon and Fiona M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (12): 719-720

Book reviews

Dealing with disasters

Alexander C McFarlane

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 647

Research

The effect of compensation on health care utilisation in a trauma cohort

Ian A Harris, Darnel F Murgatroyd, Ian D Cameron, Jane M Young and Michael J Solomon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 619-622 Free

Medicine and the media

Smoking and The Simpsons

Guy D Eslick and Marielle G Eslick

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 637-639 Free

Letters

Avoiding the tragedy of another balcony collapse

Shinichiro Sakata, Craig A McBride, James W Nixon and Roy M Kimble

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 651-652

Prevention and Promotion

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health

Amanda J Lee, Dympna Leonard, Aletia A Moloney and Deanne L Minniecon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 547-548 Free

Communication, culture and health

Healthy country, healthy people: the relationship between Indigenous health status and “caring for country”

Christopher P Burgess, Fay H Johnston, Helen L Berry, Joseph McDonnell, Dean Yibarbuk, Charlie Gunabarra, Albert Mileran and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 567-572 Free

Mind the Gap

“Closing the gap” by 2030: aspiration versus reality in Indigenous health

Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 542-544 Free

Refugee Health

The natural history of vitamin D deficiency in African refugees living in Sydney

Paul Z Benitez-Aguirre, Nicholas J Wood, Cornelis Biesheuvel, Conrad Moreira and Craig F Munns

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 426-428 Free

For debate

Alcohol taxation policy in Australia: public health imperatives for action

Steven J Skov, for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Alcohol Advisory Group

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 437-439 Free

Letters

Safety of nanoparticles in sunscreens

Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 463

Editorials

Making sense of differing bowel cancer screening guidelines

Hooi C Ee and John K Olynyk

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 348-349

Editorials

Cycling and health: an opportunity for positive change?

Adrian E Bauman and Chris Rissel

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 347-348

Editorials

Water recycling — forwards or backwards for public health?

Karin S Leder, Joanne E O’Toole and Martha I Sinclair

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 293-294