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Indigenous health

Editorial

A Northern Territory‐trained health workforce is required to meet its context‐specific disease burden and health care needs

Dominic Upton and Varunika Ruwanpura

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 594-595 Free

Letter to the editor

Defining the gap, emphasising the deficit

Bridie Mulholland

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 631-632 Free

Research letter

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants admitted to the Hunter New England neonatal intensive care unit, 2016-2021: a retrospective medical record audit

Jessica Bennett, Michelle Kennedy, Jamie Bryant, Amanual Mersha, Larissa Korostenski, Michelle Stubbs, Justine Parsons and Luke Wakely

Med J Aust 2024; 222 (1): n/a-n/a

Perspective

Decolonisation, Indigenous health research and Indigenous authorship: sharing our teams’ principles and practices

Pat Dudgeon (Bardi), Helen Milroy (Palyku), Belle Selkirk (Noongar), Ashleigh Wright (Nunga), Kahli Regan (Wongi and Noongar), Shraddha Kashyap, Rama Agung‐Igusti, Joanna Alexi, Abigail Bray, Joan Chan, Ee Pin Chang, Sze Wing Georgiana Cheuk, Jemma Collova, Kate Derry and Chontel Gibson (Gamilaraay)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 578-586 Free

Systematic review

Interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with type 2 diabetes that modify its management and cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review

Ciying Tan, Zoe Williams, Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Ray Kelly, Tuguy Esgin and Elif I Ekinci

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 623-630 Free

Perspective

Participation of Indigenous children and young people to improve health and wellbeing

Jordan Cory (Kamilaroi), Hope Kuchel (Barkindji), Bonnie Dukakis (Gunditjmara), Rhian Dicker (Palawa) and Sandra Eades (Noongar)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S26-S33 Free

Research

Assessing the adequacy and sustainability of the Northern Territory health workforce with respect to burden of disease and injury, 2009–2021: an analysis of administrative data

Yuejen Zhao, Jo Wright, Renu Unnikrishnan, Ramakrishna Chondur and Danielle Green

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 596-602 Free

Systematic review

Physical activity interventions to prevent and manage type 2 diabetes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a systematic review

Raymond J Kelly, Rona Macniven, Leonid Churilov, Margaret J Morris, David O'Neal and Elif I Ekinci

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 486-490 Free

Research letter

Notification of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in hospitalised people in the Midwest region of Western Australia, 2012–2022: retrospective administrative data analysis

Ingrid Stacey, Yolande Knight, Claire MX Ong, Amy Lee, Suresh Karuppannan, Allison Christou and Judith M Katzenellenbogen

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 493-494 Free

Perspective

Custodial dermatology for First Nations peoples: a niche service caring for incarcerated communities

Dana RML Slape (Larrakia), Penelope A Abbott and Kelvin M Kong (Worimi)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 457-459 Free

Perspective

An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent model of primary health care

Stephen Harfield, Peter Azzopardi, Gita D Mishra and James S Ward

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 512-515 Free

Perspective

Australia's Remote Vocational Training Scheme: training and supporting general practitioners in rural, remote and First Nations communities

Patrick Giddings, Belinda G O'Sullivan, Matthew R McGrail, Marlene Drysdale, Tony T Trevaskis and Jacki Mein

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): S3-S8 Free

Research

Recruitment and retention of new doctors in remote and Aboriginal medical services through the Remote Vocational Training Scheme's Targeted Recruitment Strategy: a focus group study

Belinda G O'Sullivan, Veeraja Uppal, Ronda Gurney and Patrick Giddings

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): S23-S28 Free

Research

Lessons learnt from the first two SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in six remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective epidemiological review

Allison Hempenstall, Barbara Telfer, Sean Cowley, Shalomie Shadrach, Caroline Taunton, Jay Short, Nicolas Smoll, Roy Rasalam, Oscar Whitehead, Peter Roach, Karen Koko, Josh Stafford, Rittia Matysek, Renarta Whitcombe, Gulam Khandaker, Jason King, Nishila Moodley, Maree Finney, Rica Lacey, Steven Donohue, Richard Gair and Katie Panaretto

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 426-433 Free

Narrative review

Towards a best practice framework for eHealth with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — important characteristics of eHealth interventions: a narrative review

Georgina R Chelberg, Andrew Goodman, Charankarthi Musuwadi, Sheleigh Lawler, Liam J Caffery and Ray Mahoney, the eHRCATSIH Group

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (6): 336-345 Free

Letter to the editor

“Social prescribing” another stolen Indigenous concept?

Uday N Yadav, Rosemary Wyber, Fiona Cornforth (Wuthathi/Maluilgal) and Raymond W Lovett (Wongaibon/Ngiyampaa)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (6): 346-346 Free

Research

Sensitivity and specificity of Aboriginal‐developed items to supplement the adapted PHQ‐9 screening measure for depression: results from the Getting it Right study

Timothy Skinner, Alex Brown, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto, Sara F Farnbach, Nicholas Glozier, Deborah A Askew, Graham Gee, Alan Cass and Maree L Hackett

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 258-263 Free

Research letter

Measuring progress toward the Closing the Gap healthy birthweight target for Indigenous babies: an analysis of Queensland perinatal data, 2011–2020

M Mamun Huda, James Ward and Abdullah Al Mamun

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 277-278 Free

Letter to the editor

The rise of direct‐to‐consumer telemedicine services in Australia: implications for primary care and future research

Vishnu Khanal, Deborah J Russell and John Wakerman

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 285-285 Free

Research

Indigenous governance, ethics and data collection in Australian clinical registries

Courtney Ryder, Sadia Hossain, Leanne Howard, Julia Severin and Rebecca Ivers

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 156-161 Free

Research

Kidney transplantation access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young adults, 1963–2020: an ANZDATA registry study

Swasti Chaturvedi, Shahid Ullah and Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 47-54 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Optimisation during transition to dialysis commencement

Paayal Naidu, Onika Paolucci (Muran‐Iwaidja), Relma Luta (Kaurareg) and Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 18-24 Free

Research

Evaluation of the Cultural, Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program with Aboriginal women in the Boronia Pre‐Release Centre for Women: a mixed methods study

Pat Dudgeon (Bardi), Ee Pin Chang, Joan Chan, Carolyn Mascall, Gillian King (Noongar), Jemma R Collova and Angela Ryder (Noongar)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 55-60 Free

Ethics and law

Seeking a voice: the inadequacy of the “four principles” and the need for care ethics in the provision of health care to vulnerable populations

Kenneth JE Barns and Louis Peachey (Girrimay/Djirribal)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 25-28 Free

Research

Knowledge translation in Indigenous health research: voices from the field

Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri), Melody Morton Ninomiya, Maya Morton Ninomiya, Simon Brascoupé (Anishinabeg/Haudenausanee), Janet Smylie (Mѐtis), Tom Calma (Kungarakan, Iwaidja), Janine Mohamed (Narrunga Kaurna), Paul J Stewart (Taungurung) and Raglan Maddox (Bagumani, Modewa)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 61-67 Free