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Indigenous health

Workforce dreaming

Our doctors making a difference

Peter O’Mara

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 493-494 Free

Closing the gap

Epidemiology of syphilis in Australia: moving toward elimination of infectious syphilis from remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?

James S Ward, Rebecca J Guy, Snehal P Akre, Melanie G Middleton, Carolien M Giele, Jiunn Y Su, Craig A Davis, Handan Wand, Janet B Knox, Patricia S Fagan, Basil Donovan, John M Kaldor and Darren B Russell

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 525-529 Free

Talking Policy

Alcohol restrictions in Indigenous communities: an effective strategy if Indigenous-led

Dennis A Gray and Edward T Wilkes

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 508 Free

Body mind matters

Racism as a determinant of social and emotional wellbeing for Aboriginal Australian youth

Naomi C Priest, Yin C Paradies, Wendy Gunthorpe, Sheree J Cairney and Sue M Sayers

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 546-550 Free

Workforce dreaming

The challenges of remote area medical education

Louis G Peachey and Kristin E McBain-Rigg

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 495-496 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Competition

Alfie the tooth fairy (an animation)

Alison Dimer

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 539 Free

Closing the gap

Reducing the burden of cancer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: time for a coordinated, collaborative, priority-driven, Indigenous-led research program

Gail Garvey, Joan Cunningham, Patricia C Valery, John Condon, David Roder, Ross Bailie, Jennifer Martin and Ian Olver

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 530-531 Free

Talking Policy

Research, information and consent for the Australian Health Survey: a separate standard for Indigenous people?

Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 509-510 Free

Body mind matters

The transformative potential of young motherhood for disadvantaged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Townsville, Australia

Sarah L Larkins, R Priscilla Page, Kathryn S Panaretto, Melvina Mitchell, Valerie Alberts, Suzanne McGinty and P Craig Veitch

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 551-555 Free

Workforce dreaming

Safeguard or mollycoddle? An exploratory study describing potentially harmful incidents during medical student placements in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia

Ameeta Patel, Peter Underwood, Hung The Nguyen and Margaret Vigants

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 497-500 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Competition

Strong body, strong mind, strong culture

Luke B Mallie

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 540 Free

Closing the gap

The Lowitja Institute: building a national strategic research agenda to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Kerry Arabena and David Moodie

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 532-534 Free

Closing the gap

Social determinants and the health of Indigenous Australians

Michael Marmot

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 512-513 Free

Body mind matters

Maternal smoking and smoking in the household during pregnancy and postpartum: findings from an Indigenous cohort in the Northern Territory

Vanessa Johnston, David P Thomas, Joseph McDonnell and Ross M Andrews

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 556-559 Free

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Exhibition

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana 2011

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 489-559 Free

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana Art Exhibition

Shalom Gamarada Ngiyani Yana 2010

Lisa R Jackson Pulver

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 572 Free

Letters

The health of urban Aboriginal people: insufficient data to close the gap

Elizabeth J Comino, Lisa R Jackson Pulver and Jenny A Knight

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (5): 270 Free

Letters

The relationship between influenza and invasive pneumococcal disease in the Northern Territory, 2005–2009

Laura J Edwards, Peter G Markey, Heather M Cook, James M Trauer and Vicki L Krause

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): 207 Free

Public health

Iodine status of Aboriginal teenagers in the Darwin region before mandatory iodine fortification of bread

Dorothy E M Mackerras, Gurmeet R Singh and Creswell J Eastman

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 126-130 Free

Public health

Vitamin D insufficiency in Aboriginal Australians

Simon J Vanlint, Howard A Morris, Jonathan W Newbury and Alan J Crockett

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (3): 131-134 Free

Letters

Azithromycin treatment levels inadequate for recommended trachoma control guidelines

Margaret Kelaher, Angeline S Ferdinand and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (2): 102 Free

Letters

Neuropsychological problems and alcohol availability appear to be key factors in continued heavy alcohol use by Aboriginal Australians

Kylie M Dingwall, Paul Maruff and Sheree Cairney

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 50-51 Free

True stories

From Northern Ireland to northern Australia: medicine in the Top End

R G Peter Watson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 709-710 Free

Research

Cancer incidence and mortality in Indigenous Australians in Queensland, 1997–2006

Suzanne P Moore, Peter K O’Rourke, Kylie-Ann Mallitt, Gail Garvey, Adèle C Green, Michael D Coory and Patricia C Valery

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 590-593 Free

Indigenous health

Haemodialysis outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients of remote Kimberley region origin

Julia V Marley, Hannah K Dent, Maree Wearne, Cherelle Fitzclarence, Carmel Nelson, Karen Siu, Kevin Warr and David Atkinson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): 516-520 Free