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Environment and public health

Perspectives

The 2022 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price

Paul J Beggs, Ying Zhang, Alice McGushin, Stefan Trueck, Martina K Linnenluecke, Hilary Bambrick, Anthony G Capon, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Donna Green, Arunima Malik, Ollie Jay, Maddie Heenan, Ivan C Hanigan, Sharon Friel, Mark Stevenson, Fay H Johnston, Celia McMichael, Fiona Charlson, Alistair J Woodward and Marina B Romanello

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (9): 439-458 Free

Editorials

Health sector leadership is central to the fight against the climate crisis

Elizabeth Zuccala and Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (9): 480-481 Free

Editorials

COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world

Lukoye Atwoli, Gregory E Erhabor, Aiah A Gbakima, Abraham Haileamlak, Jean‐Marie Kayembe Ntumba, James Kigera, Laurie Laybourn‐Langton, Bob Mash, Joy Muhia, Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi, David Ofori‐Adjei, Friday Okonofua, Arash Rashidian, Maha El‐Adawy, Siaka Sidibé, Abdelmadjid Snouber, James Tumwine, Mohammad Sahar Yassien, Paul Yonga, Lilia Zakhama and Chris Zielinski

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (9): 482-483 Free

Perspectives

Climate change, society, and health inequities

Sharon Friel

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (9): 466-468 Free

Perspectives

Climate change can be seen through a disaster medicine lens

George Braitberg

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (9): 464-465 Free

Guideline summary

Care for adults with COVID‐19: living guidelines from the National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Heath White, Steve J McDonald, Bridget Barber, Joshua Davis, Lucy Burr, Priya Nair, Sutapa Mukherjee, Britta Tendal, Julian Elliott, Steven McGloughlin and Tari Turner

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 368-378 Free

Letters

Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Kootsy Canuto, Karla J Canuto, Jason Bonson and James Smith

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 380-380 Free

Letters

Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Yuejen Zhao and Shu Qin Li

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 380-380 Free

Letters

The need for improved Australian data on social determinants of health inequities

Joanne Flavel, Connie Musolino and Toby Freeman

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (6): 325-325 Free

Perspectives

Twenty‐one years at the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, Sydney Australia: addressing the remaining questions

Carolyn A Day, Allison Salmon, Marianne Jauncey, Mark Bartlett and Amanda Roxburgh

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (8): 385-387 Free

Perspectives

Seafarers on the shore: issues raised by Australian doctors treating seafarers

John J Bockxmeer and Nilukshi Ranwala

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 335-337 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A polymorphic rash from across the seas

Akshay Flora, Priya Garg, Karen Cheung, Deshan F Sebaratnam and Monisha Gupta

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (6): 292-294 Free

Letters

The need for improved Australian data on social determinants of health inequities

Nicola Fortune, Jodie Bailie and Gwynnyth Llewellyn

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (6): 325-325 Free

Perspectives

Quality improvement strategies in trauma care: review and proposal of 31 novel quality indicators

Joshua G Kovoor, Jonathan Henry W Jacobsen and Zsolt J Balogh, for the Trauma Care Verification and Quality Improvement Writing Group †

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 331-335 Free

Letters

Congenital cytomegalovirus: the case for targeted infant screening in Australia

Emma Webb, Cheryl A Jones and Valerie Sung

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 269-269

Editorials

Vaccine safety: what systems are required to ensure public confidence in vaccines?

Allen C Cheng and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 189-190

Editorials

N95 respirators for health care workers: the importance of fit, comfort, and usability

Micah DJ Peters

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 83-84 Free

Editorials

Doing “deadly” community‐based research during COVID‐19: the Which Way? study

Michelle Kennedy and Hayley Longbottom

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 86-87 Free

Research

The influence of ambulance offload time on 30‐day risks of death and re‐presentation for patients with chest pain

Luke P Dawson, Emily Andrew, Michael Stephenson, Ziad Nehme, Jason Bloom, Shelley Cox, David Anderson, Jeffrey Lefkovits, Andrew J Taylor, David Kaye, Karen Smith and Dion Stub

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 253-259 Free

Study protocols

SISTAQUIT: training health care providers to help pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women quit smoking. A cluster randomised controlled trial

Gillian S Gould, Nicole M Ryan, Ratika Kumar, Leah C Stevenson, Kristin V Carson‐Chahhoud, Christopher Oldmeadow, Joley Foster, Simon Deeming, Katherine Boydell, Christopher M Doran, Andrew Searles, Joerg Mattes, Louise Atkins and Marilyn Clarke

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 36-42 Free

Perspectives

mRNA vaccines: a transformative technology with applications beyond COVID‐19

Isabella Overmars, George Au‐Yeung, Terence M Nolan and Andrew C Steer

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 71-75

Letters

Skin health situational analysis to inform skin disease control programs for the Kimberley

Frieda McLoughlin, Vicki O’Donnell and Asha C Bowen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 58-58 Free

Research letters

Re‐assessing reactions to influenza vaccination initially classified as vaccine allergies

Beau Z Carr, Kymble Spriggs, Samar Ojaimi, Elizabeth Leahy and Sara L Barnes

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): 155-156 Free

Letters

Congenital syphilis on the rise: the importance of testing and recognition

Hannah MacKenzie, Suzanne McEvoy and Michelle Porter

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 58-58 Free

Perspectives

Climate, housing, energy and Indigenous health: a call to action

Simon Quilty, Norman Frank Jupurrurla, Ross S Bailie and Russell L Gruen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 9-12 Free