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Indigenous health

Prevention and Promotion

Lipid treatment guidelines and cardiovascular risk for Aboriginal people in Central Australia

Joanne N Luke, Alex Brown, David N O’Neal, Kerin O’Dea, Alicia J Jenkins, Margaret Kelaher, James D Best and Kevin G Rowley

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 552-556 Free

Book reviews

Nurturing Aboriginal men’s health

Mark Wenitong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 607 Free

Mind the Gap

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

Shu Q Li, Natalie J Gray, Steve L Guthridge and Sabine L M Pircher

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 532-536 Free

Capacity to care

Improving Indigenous patients’ access to mainstream health services: the Inala experience

Noel E Hayman, Nola E White and Geoffrey K Spurling

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 604-606 Free

Close the gap

Close the Gap: Aboriginal community controlled health services

Mick Adams

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

Communication, culture and health

Indigenous medical workforce development: current status and future directions

Ian P S Anderson, Shaun C Ewen and Debra A Knoche

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (10): 580-581 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

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

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

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

Letters

Absence of alcohol withdrawal syndrome in a remote Indigenous community

Stephen A Margolis, Valmae A Ypinazar, Alan R Clough and Ernest Hunter

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (10): 596 Free

Indigenous health — Research

Effect of smoking among Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers on preterm birth and full-term low birthweight

Rachael-Anne Wills and Michael D Coory

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 490-494 Free

Indigenous health — Research

The roles of socioeconomic status and Aboriginality in birth outcomes at an urban hospital

Angela T Titmuss, Elizabeth Harris and Elizabeth J Comino

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 495-498 Free

Indigenous health — Research

“All they said was my kidneys were dead”: Indigenous Australian patients’ understanding of their chronic kidney disease

Kate Anderson, Jeannie Devitt, Joan Cunningham, Cilla Preece and Alan Cass

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (9): 499-503 Free

Public health

Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands: results of a comprehensive control program — a postscript

Rae-Lin Huang, Paul J Torzillo and Adrienne C Kirby

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (8): 446 Free

Public health

Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands: results of a comprehensive control program

Rae-Lin Huang, Paul J Torzillo, Vivien A Hammond, Stephanie T Coulter and Adrienne C Kirby

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (8): 442-445 Free

Position statement

Management of bronchiectasis and chronic suppurative lung disease in Indigenous children and adults from rural and remote Australian communities

Anne B Chang, Keith Grimwood, Graeme Maguire, Paul T King, Peter S Morris and Paul J Torzillo

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 386-393 Free

Letters

Prevalence of trachoma in Aboriginal communities in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory in 2007

Katrina Roper, Claude-Edouard C Michel, Paul M Kelly and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 409 Free