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Environment and public health

Letters

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237

Letters

Personal carbon trading: a potential “stealth intervention” for obesity reduction?

Barry N J Walters

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 181

Letters

Booster seat use by children aged 4–11 years: evidence of the need to revise current Australasian standards to accommodate overweight children

Yvonne A Zurynski, Lynne Bilston and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 183

Medicine and the media

The newsworthiness of cancer in Australian television news

Ross MacKenzie, Simon Chapman, Natalie Johnson, Kevin McGeechan and Simon Holding

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 155-158 Free

Letters

Personal carbon trading: a potential “stealth intervention” for obesity reduction?

Cathal A Smith

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 181

Editorials

The changing landscape for cervical screening

Annabelle Farnsworth

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 6-7

Letters

Changing perceptions of solaria and cancer risk: the role of the media

Geoffrey Jalleh, Robert J Donovan, Chad Lin and Terry Slevin

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 735

Letters

Overweight and obesity in Australia

Douglas G Travis

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 678-679

Research

Decrease in breast cancer incidence following a rapid fall in use of hormone replacement therapy in Australia

Karen Canfell, Emily Banks, Aye M Moa and Valerie Beral

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 641-644 Free

Letters

Overweight and obesity in Australia

John A Hawley and David W Dunstan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 678-679

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

Matters arising

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Michael S Gracey and Randolph M Spargo

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 620-621 Free

Matters arising

“Let’s not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

Matters arising

“Let's not talk about sex”: reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Bryan G Walpole

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 621 Free

Editorials

“I want the one for older women” — extending the human papillomavirus vaccine population base

Gerard V Wain

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 501-502

Research

The burden of influenza in healthy children in South Australia

Katina D’Onise and Jane C A Raupach

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 510-513 Free

Public health

Persistent risk of tuberculosis in migrants a decade after arrival in Australia

Michelle E McPherson, Heath Kelly, Mahomed S Patel and David Leslie

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 528-531 Free

Letters

The real costs of lifetime tobacco usage

C Ross Philpot

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 550

Book review

Social marketing can promote good health

Catriona M F Bonfiglioli

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 541

Supplement

Review of evidence to guide primary health care policy and practice to prevent childhood obesity

Lydia A Hearn, Margaret R Miller and Renee Campbell-Pope

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): S87 Free

Editorials

New vision, new paradigm: health and wealth for all by 2100 — or for no one

Peter W Tait

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (7): 383-384

Research

Booster seat use by children aged 4–11 years: evidence of the need to revise current Australasian standards to accommodate overweight children

Michael P Fitzharris, Judith Charlton, Megan Bohensky, Sjaanie Koppel and Brian Fildes

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 328-331 Free

Viewpoint

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (6): 363-365 Free

Research

Lower than expected morbidity and mortality for an Australian Aboriginal population: 10-year follow-up in a decentralised community

Kevin G Rowley, Kerin O’Dea, Ian Anderson, Robyn McDermott, Karmananda Saraswati, Ricky Tilmouth, Iris Roberts, Joseph Fitz, Zaimin Wang, Alicia Jenkins, James D Best, Zhiqiang Wang and Alex Brown

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (5): 283-287 Free

Letters

γ-Hydroxybutyrate poisoning from toy beads

Vicki Kotsirilos

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (5): 316