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Social Determinants of Health

Book reviews

Anorexia: a personal story

Simon D Clarke

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 320

Fertility matters

Oocyte freezing: timely reproductive insurance?

David Molloy, Barbara A Hall, Marianne Ilbery, Jacqui Irving and Keith L Harrison

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (5): 247-249 Free

Lifestyle

When does severe childhood obesity become a child protection issue?

Shirley M Alexander, Louise A Baur, Roger Magnusson and Bernadette Tobin

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (3): 136-139 Free

Public health

Incidence and outcomes of major trauma assaults: a population-based study in Victoria

Phebe A O’Mullane, Antonina A Mikocka-Walus, Belinda J Gabbe and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (3): 129-132 Free

Book reviews

Learning to face death

Michael P Barbato

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (2): 73

Research

Socioeconomic status and rates of breastfeeding in Australia: evidence from three recent national health surveys

Lisa H Amir and Susan M Donath

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 254-256 Free

Medicine In the Community

Public perceptions of Australia’s doctors, hospitals and health care systems

Elizabeth A Hardie and Christine R Critchley

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 210-214 Free

From the patient’s perspective

Measuring patient-reported outcomes: moving from clinical trials into clinical practice

Jose M Valderas, Jordi Alonso and Gordon H Guyatt

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 93-94

The Great Divide

Hospitalisations due to interpersonal violence: a population-based study in Western Australia

Lynn B Meuleners, Delia Hendrie and Andy H Lee

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 572-575 Free

Book review

Social marketing can promote good health

Catriona M F Bonfiglioli

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 541

For debate

The way we treat each other

Rob Moodie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 477-480 Free

Medicine and the community

Community-based asylum seekers’ use of primary health care services in Melbourne

Ignacio Correa-Velez, Vanessa Johnston, Joanne Kirk and Angeline Ferdinand

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 344-348 Free

Conference report

Mars and Venus: does gender matter in ageing?

Julie E Byles, Matthew Carroll and and the Mars and Venus Writing Team

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (5): 271-273

Book review

On western health care

Damien W Morgan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (5): 275

Northern Territory Intervention

Shamed by the lack of a meaningful dialogue

Nicole Watson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 623 Free

Power of one

Reaching out with a hand of help

Phoebe C M Williams

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 681-683

Paintings through the medical lens

James A Best

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 709

Poverty and Human Development

Rising poverty is bad for our health

Peter Saunders and Peter Davidson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (9): 530-531

Research

Suicide risk among recently released prisoners in New South Wales, Australia

Azar Kariminia, Matthew G Law, Tony G Butler, Michael H Levy, Simon P Corben, John M Kaldor and Luke Grant

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (7): 387-390 Free

Research

Asthma among school children in the Barwon region of Victoria

Peter J Vuillermin, Mike South, John B Carlin, Maree I Biscan, Sharon L Brennan and Colin F Robertson

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 221-224 Free

Book reviews

Found poetry

John R Skelton

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (4): 247

Viewpoint

Prisons, hepatitis C and harm minimisation

Michael H Levy, Carla Treloar, Rodney M McDonald and Norman Booker

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 647-649 Free

Supplement

Spirituality as sustenance for mental health and meaningful doing: a case illustration

Clare Wilding

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): S67 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

Supplement

Spiritual care and ageing in a secular society

Elizabeth B MacKinlay and Corinne Trevitt

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (10): S74 Free