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Indigenous health

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

Editorials

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities forgotten in new Australian National Action Plan for Human Influenza Pandemic: “Ask us, listen to us, share with us”

Adrian Miller and David N Durrheim, on behalf of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Influenza Study Group

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): 316-317 Free

Medicine and the community

Predictors of sexual intercourse and rapid-repeat pregnancy among teenage mothers: an Australian prospective longitudinal study

Lucy N Lewis, Dorota A Doherty, Martha Hickey and S Rachel Skinner

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): 338-342 Free

Position statement

Chronic suppurative lung disease and bronchiectasis in children and adults in Australia and New Zealand. A position statement from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Australian Lung Foundation

Anne B Chang, Scott C Bell, Cass A Byrnes, Keith Grimwood, Peter W Holmes, Paul T King, John Kolbe, Louis I Landau, Graeme P Maguire, Malcolm I McDonald, David W Reid, Francis C Thien and Paul J Torzillo

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (6): 356-365 Free

Letters

Closing the gap — better health intelligence is required

Anthony D Merritt, April R Roberts-Witteveen and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): 309 Free

Public health

How much is too much? Alcohol consumption and related harm in the Northern Territory

Steven J Skov, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Shu Q Li, Sabine Pircher and Steven Whetton

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (5): 269-272 Free

Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Cultural safety in health for Aboriginal people: will it work in Australia?

Rosemary van den Berg

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 136-137 Free

Research

Health service attendance patterns in an urban Aboriginal health service

Karen M Flegg, Christine B Phillips, Anne L Collins, Peter G Sharp, Meetali Kanagasundaram, Ray W Lovett and Marjan Kljakovic

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 146-148 Free

Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Some healing path

Kim J Scott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 680-681 Free

Correction

Impact of income management on store sales in the Northern Territory

Julie K Brimblecombe, Joseph McDonnell, Adam Barnes, Joanne Garnggulkpuy Dhurrkay, David P Thomas and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 728 Free

Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Healing our communities, healing ourselves

Jane Harrison

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 556-557 Free

Society, Culture and Health

“Just ask!” Identifying as Indigenous in mainstream general practice settings: a consumer perspective

Angela Scotney, Jillian A Guthrie, Kamalini Lokuge and Paul M Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 609 Free

At the frontline

Assessing the quality of maternal health care in Indigenous primary care services

Alice R Rumbold, Ross S Bailie, Damin Si, Michelle C Dowden, Catherine M Kennedy, Rhonda J Cox, Lynette O’Donoghue, Helen E Liddle, Ru K Kwedza, Sandra C Thompson, Hugh P Burke, Alex D Brown, Tarun Weeramanthri and Christine M Connors

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 597-598 Free

At the frontline

An education intervention for childhood asthma by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers: a randomised controlled trial

Patricia C Valery, Ian B Masters, Brett Taylor, Yancy Laifoo, Peter K O’Rourke and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 574-579 Free

Defining the gap

Clinical oral health outcomes in young Australian Aboriginal adults compared with national-level counterparts

Lisa M Jamieson, Susan M Sayers and Kaye F Roberts-Thomson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 558-561 Free

The Research Agenda

Doing more to improve Indigenous health: the new NHMRC Road Map

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 610-611 Free

Society, Culture and Health

Enduring dilemmas of Indigenous health

Emma E Kowal and Yin C Paradies

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 599-600 Free

At the frontline

Acute rheumatic fever in Indigenous people in North Queensland: some good news at last?

Jeffrey N Hanna and Michele F Clark

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 581-584 Free

Defining the gap

Incidence of type 2 diabetes in two Indigenous Australian populations: a 6-year follow-up study

Robyn A McDermott, Ming Li and Sandra K Campbell

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 562-565 Free

The Research Agenda

Strategies for increasing high-quality intervention research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: views of leading researchers

Jessica M Stewart, Rob W Sanson-Fisher, Sandra J Eades and Nicole M Mealing

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 612-615 Free

After the intervention

Health impacts of the Northern Territory intervention

Peter O’Mara

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 546-548 Free

Society, Culture and Health

“You’re always hearing about the stats ... death happens so often”: new perspectives on barriers to Aboriginal participation in cardiac rehabilitation

Kate P Taylor, Julie S Smith, Lyn Dimer, Mohammed Ali, Narelle Wilson, Tyra R Thomas and Sandra C Thompson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 602 Free

At the frontline

Hospitalisation of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory for lower respiratory illness in the first year of life

Kerry-Ann F O’Grady, Paul J Torzillo and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 586-590 Free

Defining the gap

Mental disorders due to substance use and cardiovascular disease risk in Aboriginal adults

Zhiqiang Wang, Damin Si and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 566 Free

Pandemic influenza

Disproportionate impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on Indigenous people in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory

Shaun M Flint, Joshua S Davis, Jiunn-Yih Su, Erin P Oliver-Landry, Benjamin A Rogers, Aaron Goldstein, Jane H Thomas, Uma Parameswaran, Colin Bigham, Kevin Freeman, Paul Goldrick and Steven Y C Tong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 617-622 Free