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Letters 3 Oct 2022

Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Yuejen Zhao and Shu Qin Li

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 380-380 Free

Letters 3 Oct 2022

Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Kootsy Canuto, Karla J Canuto, Jason Bonson and James Smith

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 380-380 Free

Perspectives 19 Sep 2022

Roadmap to incorporating group A Streptococcus molecular point‐of‐care testing for remote Australia: a key activity to eliminate rheumatic heart disease

Dylan D Barth, Gelsa Cinanni, Jonathan R Carapetis, Rosemary Wyber, Louise Causer, Caroline Watts, Belinda Hengel, Susan Matthews, Anna P Ralph, Janessa Pickering, Jeffrey W Cannon, Lorraine Anderson, Vicki Wade, Rebecca J Guy and Asha C Bowen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (6): 279-282 Free

Editorials 18 Jul 2022

Doing “deadly” community‐based research during COVID‐19: the Which Way? study

Michelle Kennedy and Hayley Longbottom

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 86-87 Free

Letters 4 Jul 2022

Skin health situational analysis to inform skin disease control programs for the Kimberley

Frieda McLoughlin, Vicki O’Donnell and Asha C Bowen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 58-58 Free

Editorials 4 Jul 2022

Strengthening the presence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in the Medical Journal of Australia

Nicholas J Talley, Elizabeth Zuccala, Francis Geronimo, Tania Janusic and Elmer V Villanueva

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 24-25 Free

Letters 4 Jul 2022

Congenital syphilis on the rise: the importance of testing and recognition

Hannah MacKenzie, Suzanne McEvoy and Michelle Porter

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 58-58 Free

Editorials 4 Jul 2022

Life expectancy for Indigenous people is improving, but closing the gap remains unacceptably slow

Ian T Ring and Kalinda Griffiths

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 26-27 Free

Letters 4 Jul 2022

Unintended pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: where are the data?

Jessica Botfield, Emma Griffiths, Faye McMillan and Danielle Mazza

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 59-59 Free

Editorials 4 Jul 2022

Low risk chest pain? Make the negative a positive

Christopher Zeitz and Angus Baumann

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 28-29 Free

Study protocols 4 Jul 2022

SISTAQUIT: training health care providers to help pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women quit smoking. A cluster randomised controlled trial

Gillian S Gould, Nicole M Ryan, Ratika Kumar, Leah C Stevenson, Kristin V Carson‐Chahhoud, Christopher Oldmeadow, Joley Foster, Simon Deeming, Katherine Boydell, Christopher M Doran, Andrew Searles, Joerg Mattes, Louise Atkins and Marilyn Clarke

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 36-42 Free

Perspectives 4 Jul 2022

Climate, housing, energy and Indigenous health: a call to action

Simon Quilty, Norman Frank Jupurrurla, Ross S Bailie and Russell L Gruen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 9-12 Free

Narrative review 4 Jul 2022

Interrogating the intentions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: a narrative review of research outputs since the introduction of Closing the Gap

Michelle Kennedy, Jessica Bennett, Sian Maidment, Catherine Chamberlain, Kate Booth, Romany McGuffog, Bree Hobden, Lisa J Whop and Jamie Bryant

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 50-57 Free

Perspectives 4 Jul 2022

The need for a roadmap to guide actions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent health: youth governance as an essential foundation

Seth Westhead, Quinton Appleby, Brittney Andrews, Tina Brodie, Alex Brown, Karla Canuto, Josh Cooke, Mahlia Garay, Thomas Harrington, Djai Hunter, Corey Kennedy, Jaeda Lenoy, Olivia Lester, Hannah McCleary, Odette Pearson, Lorraine Randall, Rachel Reilly, Hamish Rose, Daniel Rosendale, Jakirah Telfer and Peter Azzopardi

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 13-15 Free

Perspectives 20 Jun 2022

Building resilience to Australian flood disasters in the face of climate change

Sotiris Vardoulakis, Veronica Matthews, Ross S Bailie, Wenbiao Hu, Luis Salvador‐Carulla, Alexandra L Barratt and Cordia Chu

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 342-345 Free

Research 20 Jun 2022

Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Yuejen Zhao, Shu Qin Li, Tom Wilson and C Paul Burgess

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 30-35 Free

Research letters 13 Jun 2022

Value of single troponin values in the emergency department for excluding acute myocardial infarction in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Jaimi H Greenslade, Sara Berndt, Laura Stephensen, Katrina Starmer, Greg Starmer, William Parsonage, Victor Lau, Tileah Drahm‐Butler, Tania Davis, Virginia Campbell, Richard Stone, Robert Bonnin, Sarah Ashover, Tanya Milburn, Elizabeth Mowatt, Karlie Proctor, Anthony Brazzale and Louise Ann Cullen

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 48-49 Free

Research letters 30 May 2022

High prevalence of hearing loss in urban Aboriginal infants: the Djaalinj Waakinj cohort study

Tamara Veselinović, Sharon A Weeks, Valerie M Swift, Deborah Lehmann and Christopher G Brennan‐Jones

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (1): 46-47 Free

Research 23 May 2022

The clinical and genetic features of hereditary pancreatitis in South Australia

Denghao Wu, Tristan J Bampton, Hamish S Scott, Alex Brown, Karin Kassahn, Christopher Drogemuller, Sunita MC De Sousa, David Moore, Thuong Ha, John WC Chen, Sanjeev Khurana, David J Torpy, Toni Radford, Richard Couper, Lyle Palmer and P Toby Coates

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 578-582 Free

Letters 16 May 2022