MJA
MJA

Global health

Perspective

Cultural bias in kidney care and transplantation: review and recommendations to improve kidney care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Jaquelyne T Hughes, Kelli J Owen, Janet Kelly, Katie Cundale, Sandawana William Majoni, Matilda D'Antoine and Stephen P McDonald

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (8): S11-S14 Free

Editorials

The MJA supports an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament

Virginia Barbour

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (6): 257-258 Free

Editorials

Reducing the risks of nuclear war — the role of health professionals

Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, Andy Haines, Ira Helfand, Richard C Horton, Bob Mash, Arun Mitra, Carlos A Monteiro, Elena N Naumova, Eric J Rubin, Tilman A Ruff, Peush Sahni, James Tumwine, Paul Yonga and Chris Zielinski

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (5): 206-207 Free

Perspectives

Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for pandemic response products in the World Health Organization pandemic accord need Australia's support

Deborah Gleeson, James Scheibner and Dianne Nicol

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (2): 46-48 Free

Perspectives

The impact of climate change on skin health

Austen Anderson, Fiona Bruce, H Peter Soyer, Crystal Williams and Rebecca B Saunderson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (9): 388-390

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

Research

Eliminating hepatitis C in Australia: a novel model of hepatitis C testing and treatment for people who inject drugs at a medically supervised injecting facility

Michael B MacIsaac, Bradley Whitton, Adrian Hubble, Shelley Cogger, Matthew Penn, Anthony Weeks, Kasey Elmore, David Pemberton, Jenine Anderson, Rebecca Howard, Una McKeever, Timothy Papaluca, Margaret E Hellard, Mark Stoove, David Wilson, Alisa Pedrana, Joseph Doyle, Nico Clark, Jacinta Holmes and Alexander J Thompson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 256-261 Free

Perspectives

Mitigating the impacts of racism on Indigenous wellbeing through human rights, legislative and health policy reform

Pat Dudgeon, Abigail Bray and Roz Walker

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 203-205 Free

Perspectives

Bridging the gap in skin cancer research for Australians with skin of colour

Ayooluwatomiwa I Oloruntoba and Michelle Rodrigues

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 148-149

Perspectives

A vision of a One Health system for Australia: on the need to rethink our health system

Sandra G Steele, Jenny‐Ann LML Toribio and Siobhan M Mor

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (9): 459-463 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

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

Perspectives

“Tough on borders”: how Australia’s immigration detention system fails refugee and asylum seeker health

Nilanthy Vigneswaran

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): 122-125

Editorials

Life expectancy for Indigenous people is improving, but closing the gap remains unacceptably slow

Ian T Ring and Kalinda Griffiths

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 26-27 Free

Editorials

Achieving person‐centred primary health care through value co‐creation

Tina Janamian, Paresh Dawda and Walid Jammal

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 518-519 Free

Perspectives

International medical graduates (IMGs) in cul‐de‐sacs: “lost in the labyrinth” revisited?

Neville D Yeomans, Ayaz Chowdhury and Alan Roberts

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 553-555

Research letters

Doctors with borders: the impact of international border closures on Timorese people who need cardiac procedures

Elizabeth Paratz, Joaquina Maurays, Ricardo Flavio, Alan Appelbe and Noel Bayley

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 583-584 Free

Medical education

Preparing Australasian medical students for environmentally sustainable health care

Diana L Madden, Graeme L Horton and Michelle McLean

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (5): 225-229 Free

Research

Area‐level social and economic factors and the local incidence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infections in Victoria during 2020

Christine Roder, Callum Maggs, Bridgette J McNamara, Daniel O'Brien, Amanda J Wade, Catherine Bennett, Julie A Pasco and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (7): 349-356 Free

Retraction

Retracted: Preparing Australasian medical students to practise environmentally sustainable health care

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 106-106 Free

Perspectives

The health impacts of dowry abuse on South Asian communities in Australia

Manjula O'Connor and Amanda Lee

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 11-13 Free

Editorials

Measurement is the key to delivering culturally responsive care

Margaret P Kay

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 412-413

Perspectives

Climate, extreme heat and human health: risks and lessons for Australia

Tarun S Weeramanthri, Simon Quilty and Sharon L Campbell

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 393-395

Research

OPTIMISE: a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of an intervention to improve primary care for refugees in Australia

Grant M Russell, Katrina Long, Virginia Lewis, Joanne C Enticott, Nilakshi Gunatillaka, I‐Hao Cheng, Geraldine Marsh, Shiva Vasi, Jenny Advocat, Shoko Saito, Hyun Song, Sue Casey, Mitchell Smith and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 420-426 Free

Editorials

Community level cultural connectedness and suicide by young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Raymond W Lovett and Makayla‐May Brinckley

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 511-512 Free