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The New Zealand Medical Journal

 Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 13-May-2011, Vol 124 No 1334

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Editorials

Health inequities are rising unseen in New Zealand

Don Matheson, Belinda Loring

The challenge of reducing socioeconomic and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease

Ralph A H Stewart

Leveraging information from New Zealand statistical data: a first step to wisdom in transforming unmet need for general practice services

Susan Dovey, Lik W Loh, Wayne K Cunningham

Reducing a striking health inequality

Jonathan Jarman

Original Articles

Sociodemographic differences in prevalence of diagnosed coronary heart disease in New Zealand estimated from linked national health records

Simon Thornley, Wing Cheuk Chan, Sue Crengle, Tania Riddell, Shanthi Ameratunga, Suneela Mehta, Dudley Gentles, Sue Wells, Roger Marshall, Rod Jackson

Unmet need of GP services in Pacific people and other New Zealanders

Megan J Pledger, Jacqueline Cumming, Mili Burnette, Jacob Daubé

Throat swabbing for the primary prevention of rheumatic fever following health information

Janine Mardani, Lester Calder, Julia Haydon-Carr, Gordon Purdie, Nicholas F Jones

Achieving equitable outcomes for Māori women with cervical cancer in New Zealand: health provider views

Melissa McLeod, Donna Cormack, Ricci Harris, Bridget Robson, Peter Sykes, Sue Crengle

Students’ and teachers’ perceptions of the clinical learning environment in years 4 and 5 at the University of Auckland

Ralph Pinnock, Boaz Shulruf, Susan J Hawken, Marcus A Henning, Rhys Jones

Leave provision for Canterbury District Health Board’s resident medical officers with sick leave analyses

John Morton

What risk do consumers face when seeking medical advice from health food stores?

Llifon Edwards, Sarah Jefferies, Bridget Healy, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley, Philippa Shirtcliffe

Viewpoints

Mind the Gap: ethical issues of private treatment in the public health system

Elizabeth Fenton

Managing obstructive sleep apnoea and achieving equity: implications for health

Sarah-Jane Paine, Ricci B Harris, Kara M Mihaere

Clinical Correspondence

Medical image. A left atrial myxoma presenting as angina

Andrew King, David Adlam, Rebecca Inglis, Christopher Hayes, Nicos Spyrou

Medical image. Pathognomonic rash

Ramesh Pandey, Catherine Greengrass, Nikša Drinkovic

Letters

Does health evidence support or undermine our regulatory approach to air quality?

Ian Longley, Simon Hales

Hand hygiene practices at a hospital entrance after the 2009 influenza pandemic: observational study over 1 year

Stephanie Manning, Tasmin Barry, Michael G Baker, Nick Wilson

Against anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions—and response by orthopaedic surgeon

Nicholas Cooper, Gary Hooper

Why so many stillbirths?

Ronald W Jones

Response to letter from Prof Shaun Holt calling for doctors not to practice homeopathy

Clive Stuart

Melanoma Summit highlights best practice and priorities for action

Gary Duncan, Graham Stevens, Chris Boberg, Richard Harman, Mike Eccles, Betsy Marshall, Iain Potter, Marius Rademaker; for the MelNet Establishment Committee

Contribution of hepatitis B vaccination programmes initiated by Alexander Milne and Dr Christopher Moyes to the decline in prevalence of hepatitis B infection in pregnant women in the Midlands region of the North Is, New Zealand

Deborah Jowitt

100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Three Deaths from Exophthalmic Goitre (Graves' Disease)

Proceedings

Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Biannual Research Seminar, 10 March 2011

Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

     
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