Background. Acute upper respiratory infections are common in children who attend child
care, and preventing transmission of disease in this setting depends on actions by child care …

Objective: To identify the most common health issues diagnosed by general practitioners in
newly arrived African refugees. Design: Descriptive study based on a purposive sample of …

Background. Diarrheal infections are common in children who attend child care, and
preventing transmission of disease in this setting depends on actions by child care staff. We …

Abstract Background Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in the 1970s and early 1980s
showed the polysaccharide serogroup A vaccine (SgAV) prevented serogroup A …

Objective—To determine the age-and sex-specific prevalence of diabetes and to examine
associations between related anthropometric and metabolic abnormalities in an Aboriginal …

Background Although primary health care, and in particular, general practice will be at the
frontline in the response to pandemic influenza, there are no frameworks to guide systematic …

Abstract Background. Ciprofloxacin-resistant Campylobacter jejuni isolates obtained from
infected patients in Australia have not been detected in studies of isolates from specific …

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of the Australian border entry screening program to
detect arriving travellers with symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

Objective. To study nine recent community outbreaks of APSGN in Australia's Northern
Territory and compare them with outbreaks reported in the literature to assess the impact of …

The public health emergency associated with the 2019–20 bushfires in Australia was a
wake-up call to increase the resilience of our health systems to respond to climate extremes …