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Pediatric medicine

Consensus statement

The Future Healthy Countdown 2030 consensus statement: core policy actions and measures to achieve improvements in the health and wellbeing of children, young people and future generations

Kate Lycett, Hannah Lane, Georgie Frykberg, Susan Maury, Carolyn Wallace, Luisa Taafua, Bernie Morris, Anne Hollonds, Pasi Sahlberg, Kevin Kapeke, Ngiare Brown, Jordan Cory, Peter D Sly, Craig A Olsson, Fiona J Stanley, Anna M H Price, Planning Saw, Khalid Muse, Peter S Azzopardi, Susan M Sawyer, Rebecca Glauert, Marketa Reeves, Roslyn Dundas, Sandro Demaio, Rosemary Calder and Sharon R Goldfeld

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S6-S17 Free

Research

Mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole‐of‐population descriptive study

Jessica Judd, Rhiannon M Pilkington, Catia Malvaso, Alexandra M Procter, Alicia Montgomerie, Jemma JA Anderson, Jon N Jureidini, Julie Petersen, John Lynch and Catherine R Chittleborough

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 540-545 Free

Perspective

Safeguarding the health and wellbeing of transgender young people

Carmen Pace, Alessandra Chinsen, Ada S Cheung, S. Rachel Skinner, Ken W Knight, Michelle A Tollit, Michelle M Telfer and Ken C Pang

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 516-519 Free

Editorial

Future Healthy Countdown 2030: from passive trickle‐down to active participation for improved health and wellbeing of children, young people and future generations

Kevin Kapeke, Anne Hollonds and Susan Maury

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S3-S5 Free

Perspective

An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent model of primary health care

Stephen Harfield, Peter Azzopardi, Gita D Mishra and James S Ward

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 512-515 Free

Editorial

Improving the uptake of highly effective contraception by women using teratogenic medications

Sarah Donald

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): 365-366 Free

Research

Concurrent use of hormonal long‐acting reversible contraception by women of reproductive age dispensed teratogenic medications, Australia, 2013–2021: a retrospective cohort study

Luke E Grzeskowiak, Vivienne Moore, Kelly Hall, Jenni Ilomäki, Danielle Schoenaker, Elizabeth Lovegrove, Danielle Mazza, Kirsten I Black, Debra S Kennedy, Michael J Davies and Alice Rumbold

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): 367-373 Free

Research letter

Measuring progress toward the Closing the Gap healthy birthweight target for Indigenous babies: an analysis of Queensland perinatal data, 2011–2020

M Mamun Huda, James Ward and Abdullah Al Mamun

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 277-278 Free

Letter to the Editor

Skin fragility disorder misdiagnosed as child abuse: a cautionary tale

Heather G Mack, Fred K Chen and John R Grigg

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 171-171

Research

Notification rates for syphilis in women of reproductive age and congenital syphilis in Australia, 2011–2021: a retrospective cohort analysis of national notifications data

Belinda Hengel, Hamish McManus, Robert Monaghan, Donna B Mak, Amy Bright, Ximena Tolosa, Kellie Mitchell, Lorraine Anderson, Jackie R Thomas, Nathan Ryder, Louise Causer, Rebecca J Guy and Skye McGregor

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (4): 201-208 Free

Ethics and law

Gender CARE beyond the courts: an alternative framework for resolving disputes over gender health care for children and adolescents

Georgina Dimopoulos and Michelle Taylor‐Sands

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (2): 88-91 Free

Research letter

Emergency department presentations in Queensland by First Nations people, remote residents, and young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020: interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben B Keijzers, Dinesh Palipana, John Gerrard and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 579-581 Free

Perspectives

The role of omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the prevention of preterm birth

Joanna YX Fu, Carol A Wang, Elyse C Mead, Jason Phung, Maria Makrides and Craig E Pennell

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (10): 502-504 Free

Position statement

Management of patients with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma in Australia and New Zealand: Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group position statement

Santosh Valvi, Neevika Manoharan, Marion K Mateos, Timothy EG Hassall, David S Ziegler, Geoffrey B McCowage, Matthew D Dun, David D Eisenstat, Nicholas G Gottardo and Jordan R Hansford

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (10): 533-538 Free

Perspectives

Towards national paediatric clinical practice guidelines

Mike Starr

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (8): 392-393 Free

Letters

The Australian Child Maltreatment Study: National prevalence and associated health outcomes of child abuse and neglect

Leonie Segal and Emmanuel S Gnanamanickam

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (5): 275-275 Free

Letters

The Australian Child Maltreatment Study: National prevalence and associated health outcomes of child abuse and neglect

Ben Mathews

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (5): 275-275 Free

Editorials

Yarning together: toward targeted, co‐designed parenting programs for Aboriginal Australians

Simone Sherriff and Josephine D Gwynn

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 313-314 Free

Editorial

Antibiotics or watchful waiting for acute otitis media in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children?

Valerie M Swift and Christopher G Brennan‐Jones

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 186-187 Free

Research

The effectiveness of maternal pertussis vaccination for protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants against infection, 2012–2017: a retrospective cohort study

Lisa McHugh, Heather A D’Antoine, Mohinder Sarna, Michael J Binks, Hannah C Moore, Ross M Andrews, Gavin F Pereira, Christopher C Blyth, Paul Van Buynder, Karin Lust and Annette K Regan

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 196-201 Free

Scoping review

The participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents in Australian trials of parenting programs for improving children's health: a scoping review

Jake MacDonald, Myles Young, Briana Barclay, Stacey McMullen, James Knox and Philip Morgan

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 331-335 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Skin fragility disorder misdiagnosed as child abuse: a cautionary tale

Anneliese Willems, Lauren Weston and Susan Robertson

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (2): 71-73 Free

Perspectives

Providing Australian children and adolescents with equitable access to new and emerging therapies through clinical trials: a call to action

Michelle S Lorentzos, David Metz, Andrew S Moore, Laura K Fawcett, Paula Bray, Lani Attwood, Craig F Munns and Andrew Davidson

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 121-125 Free

Perspective

Monitoring the physical and mental health of Australian children and young people: a foundation for responsive and accountable actions

Kate Lycett, Georgie Frykberg, Peter S Azzopardi, Joyce Cleary, Susan M Sawyer, John W Toumbourou, Tim Slade and Craig A Olsson

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): S20-S24 Free

Perspective

New foundations for learning in Australia

Pasi Sahlberg and Sharon R Goldfeld

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): S25-S29 Free