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Indigenous health

Editorial

A healed and healthy country: understanding healing for Indigenous Australians

Tamara Mackean

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 522-523 Free

Capacity to care

Coronary heart disease events in Aboriginal Australians: incidence in an urban population

Pamela J Bradshaw, Helman S Alfonso, Judith C Finn, Julie Owen and Peter L Thompson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 583-586 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: Oxfam Australia

Andrew Hewett

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 601 Free

Prevention and Promotion

Adult health checks for Indigenous Australians: the first year’s experience from the Inala Indigenous Health Service

Geoffrey K P Spurling, Noel E Hayman and Anna L Cooney

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 562-564 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: social justice

Tom Calma

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 526 Free

Mind the Gap

“Closing the gap” by 2030: aspiration versus reality in Indigenous health

Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 542-544 Free

Letters

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003: are people living in remote areas worse off?

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 545 Free

Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Essay Competition

Antecedents of chronic kidney disease in Aboriginal offenders in New South Wales prisons

Beverley F Spiers

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 524-526 Free

Capacity to care

Outcomes of cardiac surgery in Indigenous Australians

Sam J Lehman, Robert A Baker, Philip E Aylward, John L Knight and Derek P Chew

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 588-593 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: nursing

Robyn Coulthard

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 601 Free

Prevention and Promotion

Linking Indigenous health care with school education

Geoffrey M Forbes, Stephen J Davis, Martin D Robson, Anthony F Connell and Peter C Richmond

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 565-566 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: psychology

Patricia Dudgeon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 546 Free

Prevention and Promotion

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health

Amanda J Lee, Dympna Leonard, Aletia A Moloney and Deanne L Minniecon

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 547-548 Free

Letters

Why Australia needs a national college of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

John Daniels and Sophie Couzos

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 573 Free

Research

Incidence and survival after acute myocardial infarction in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1992–2004

Jiqiong You, John R Condon, Yuejen Zhao and Steven Guthridge

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 298-302 Free

Research

Natural history of chronic kidney disease in Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous children: a 4-year population-based follow-up study

Leigh Haysom, Rita Williams, Elisabeth M Hodson, Pamela A Lopez-Vargas, Leslie P Roy, David M Lyle and Jonathan C Craig

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 303-306 Free

Research

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003: are people living in more remote areas worse off?

Karen Andreasyan and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 307-311 Free

Editorials

Cannabis use in remote Indigenous communities in Australia: endemic yet neglected

K S Kylie Lee, Katherine M Conigrave, George C Patton and Alan R Clough

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 228-229 Free

Fertility matters

Could the Baby Bonus be a bonus for babies?

Caroline M de Costa and Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 242-243 Free

Letters

Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous schoolchildren

Loretta R de Plevitz, Judith S Gould and Terrina M Smith

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 286-287 Free

Letters

Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous schoolchildren

Brian D Bowring and Amanda Little

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 286-287 Free

Book reviews

Better Aboriginal health

Timothy P M Senior

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (4): 1 Free

Editorials

Disproportionate burdens: the multidimensional impacts of climate change on the health of Indigenous Australians

Donna Green, Ursula King and Joe Morrison

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (1): 4-5 Free

Research enterprise

A decade of NHMRC People Support expenditure in review: is support for Indigenous health research increasing?

Sophia Leon de la Barra, Sally Redman, Sandra Eades and Carey Lonsdale

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (1): 28-31 Free

Indigenous health

Why Australia needs a national college of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Robert M Parker

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (1): 34-36 Free