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Environment and public health

Supplement

Review of evidence to guide primary health care policy and practice to prevent childhood obesity

Lydia A Hearn, Margaret R Miller and Renee Campbell-Pope

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): S87 Free

Editorials

New vision, new paradigm: health and wealth for all by 2100 — or for no one

Peter W Tait

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (7): 383-384

Research

Booster seat use by children aged 4–11 years: evidence of the need to revise current Australasian standards to accommodate overweight children

Michael P Fitzharris, Judith Charlton, Megan Bohensky, Sjaanie Koppel and Brian Fildes

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 328-331 Free

Viewpoint

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 363-365 Free

Letters

γ-Hydroxybutyrate poisoning from toy beads

Vicki Kotsirilos

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (5): 316

Research

Lower than expected morbidity and mortality for an Australian Aboriginal population: 10-year follow-up in a decentralised community

Kevin G Rowley, Kerin O’Dea, Ian Anderson, Robyn McDermott, Karmananda Saraswati, Ricky Tilmouth, Iris Roberts, Joseph Fitz, Zaimin Wang, Alicia Jenkins, James D Best, Zhiqiang Wang and Alex Brown

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (5): 283-287 Free

Oxford Health Alliance

Can public health advocates work alongside industry?

Stig Pramming and Ruth Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 202-203

Medicine and the community

Where are older workers with chronic conditions employed?

Deborah J Schofield, Susan L Fletcher, Arul Earnest, Megan E Passey and Rupendra N Shrestha

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 231-234 Free

Clinical update

Human papillomavirus vaccination for the prevention of cervical neoplasia: is it appropriate to vaccinate women older than 26?

S Rachel Skinner, Suzanne M Garland, Margaret A Stanley, Marian Pitts and Michael A Quinn

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 238-242 Free

Letters

Drowning and three-wheel strollers

Charles Bridges-Webb

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (4): 264

Editorials

Tuberculosis: the dis-ease that didn’t dis-appear

Ivan Bastian and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 131-132

Public health

Tuberculosis in illegal foreign fishermen: whose public health are we protecting?

Natalie J Gray, Meredith Hansen-Knarhoi and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 144-147 Free

Public health

Recurrence of tuberculosis at a Sydney chest clinic between 1994 and 2006: reactivation or reinfection?

Claudia C Dobler, Guy B Marks, Sheila E Simpson and A B Hamish Crawford

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 153-155 Free

Public health

Methaemoglobinaemia following ingestion of a commonly available food additive

Peter Maric, Sayed S Ali, Leon G Heron, David Rosenfeld and Matthew Greenwood

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (3): 156-158

The World Today

The law and chronic disease prevention: possibilities and politics

Roger S Magnusson and Ruth Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (2): 104-105

For debate

Repealing Australia’s ban on smokeless tobacco? Hasten slowly

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 47-49

Public health

Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factors

Stephen J Begg, Theo Vos, Bridget Barker, Lucy Stanley and Alan D Lopez

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 36-40 Free

For debate

Should Australia lift its ban on low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products?

Coral E Gartner and Wayne D Hall

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (1): 44-46 Free

The World Today

Personal carbon trading: a potential “stealth intervention” for obesity reduction?

Barry N J Walters and Garry Egger

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 668

The World Today

The Oxford Health Alliance: a risky business?

Ruth Colagiuri, Stig Pramming and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 652-653

Crisis

Mitigating the health impacts of a natural disaster — the June 2007 long-weekend storm in the Hunter region of New South Wales

Michelle A Cretikos, Tony D Merritt, Kelly Main, Keith Eastwood, Linda Winn, Lucille Moran and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 670-673 Free

The World Today

What are governments for?

Martin McKee and Ruth Colagiuri

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 654-655

Power of one

Reaching out with a hand of help

Phoebe C M Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 681-683

The World Today

Can food and beverage companies help improve population health? Some insights from PepsiCo

Derek Yach, Antonio Lucio and Carlos Barroso

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 656-657

The World Today

The way we live in our cities

Anthony G Capon

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 658-661 Free