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Indigenous health

Book reviews

Indigenous health: reaching beyond rhetoric

Charles Guest

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 247 Free

Research

Sustainable antenatal care services in an urban Indigenous community: the Townsville experience

Kathryn S Panaretto, Melvina R Mitchell, Lynette Anderson, Sarah L Larkins, Vivienne Manessis, Petra G Buettner and David Watson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (1): 18-22 Free

Letters

The difficulty with data: greater accuracy required for policy making

Susan Downes and Sally M Roach

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 663-664 Free

Position statement

An Australian guideline for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: an abridged outline

Jonathan R Carapetis, Alex Brown, Nigel J Wilson and Keith N Edwards

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 581-586 Free

Editorials

Rheumatic fever and social justice

Alex Brown, Malcolm I McDonald and Tom Calma

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 557-558 Free

Research

Experience with cardiac valve operations in Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Anna McLean, Michael Waters, Emma Spencer and Clive Hadfield

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 560-563 Free

An Indigenous medical workforce

The development of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis medical workforce

Marcia Anderson and Barry Lavallee

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 539-540 Free

Health Services

Indigenous health: effective and sustainable health services through continuous quality improvement

Ross S Bailie, Damin Si, Lyn O'Donoghue and Michelle Dowden

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 525-527 Free

Diabetes

Diabetes in the Torres Strait Islands of Australia: better clinical systems but significant increase in weight and other risk conditions among adults, 1999–2005

Robyn A McDermott, Bradley G McCulloch, Sandra K Campbell and Dallas M Young

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 505-508 Free

An Indigenous medical workforce

Strengthening Māori participation in the New Zealand health and disability workforce

Mihi M Ratima, Rachel M Brown, Nick K G Garrett, Erena I Wikaire, Renei M Ngawati, Clive S Aspin and Utiku K Potaka

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 541-543 Free

Health Services

Overseas-trained doctors in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services: many unanswered questions

Rachelle S Arkles, Peter S Hill and Lisa R Jackson Pulver

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 528-530 Free

Maternal and Child Health

The urban–remote divide for Indigenous perinatal outcomes

Simon Graham, Lisa R Jackson Pulver, Yueping Alex Wang, Paul M Kelly, Paula J Laws, Narelle Grayson and Elizabeth A Sullivan

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 509-512 Free

Editorial

Rising to the health challenge for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: what will it take?

Mark Wenitong, Romlie Mokak, Henry Councillor, Dea Delaney Thiele and Tom Calma

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 491-492 Free

An Indigenous medical workforce

Training Indigenous doctors for Australia: shooting for goal

Kerrie A Lawson, Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 547-550 Free

Health Services

Town or country: which is best for Australia’s Indigenous peoples?

David Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 532-533 Free

Maternal and Child Health

Attitudes and behaviours of young Indigenous people in Townsville concerning relationships, sex and contraception: the “U Mob Yarn Up” project

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

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 513-518 Free

Diabetes

Diabetes in Indigenous Australians: possible ways forward

Kerin O'Dea, Kevin G Rowley and Alex Brown

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 494-495 Free

Departments

From the editors

Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 552 Free

Health Services

Implications of land rights reform for Indigenous health

Nicole L Watson

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 534-536 Free

Maternal and Child Health

Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in remote Far North Queensland: findings of the Paediatric Outreach Service

Jonty Rothstein, Richard Heazlewood and Marnie Fraser

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 519-521 Free

Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and adolescents in New South Wales

Maria E Craig, Giuseppe Femia, Vitali Broyda, Margaret Lloyd and Neville J Howard

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 497-499 Free

Personal perspective

Why “culturally safe” health care?

Mary Belfrage

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 537-538 Free

Health Services

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the right to health: is Australia meeting its obligations to Aboriginal peoples?

Sophie Couzos and Dea Delaney Thiele

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 522-524 Free

Diabetes

Point-of-care testing of capillary glucose in the exclusion and diagnosis of diabetes in remote Australia

Julia V Marley, Stephanie Davis, Kerryn Coleman, Bradleigh D Hayhow, Greg Brennan, Jacki K Mein, Carmel Nelson, David Atkinson and Graeme P Maguire

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): 500-503 Free

Research

Inequitable provision of optimal services for patients with chronic heart failure: a national geo-mapping study

Robyn A Clark, Andrea Driscoll, Justin Nottage, Skye McLennan, David M Coombe, Errol J Bamford, David Wilkinson and Simon Stewart

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (4): 169-173 Free