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Organ donation in Australia: Reply
Published 2010-01-01
Like McCaughan1, we are both in the unfortunate position of owning and driving a car in NSW, and have therefore faced the frustration associated with licence renewal. We consequently agree that any system that attempts to ...
Open Access
Article, Letter
Women view key sexual behaviours as the trigger for the onset and recurrence of bacterial vaginosis
Published 2017-03-01
Background Bacterial vaginosis (BV) affects a third of women of reproductive age in the US and there is increasing evidence to suggest it may be sexually transmitted. This study aimed to extend and validate the findings ...
Open Access
Article
'Good Mothering' or 'Good Citizenship'? Conflicting values in choosing whether to store or donate umbilical cord blood.
Published 2013-01-01
Umbilical cord blood banking is one of many biomedical innovations that confront pregnant women with new choices about what they should do to secure their own and their child’s best interests. Many mothers can now choose ...
Open Access
Article
Doctors' perspectives on PSA testing illuminate established differences in prostate cancer screening rates between Australia and the UK: a qualitative study.
Published 2016-12-01
Objectives To examine how general practitioners (GPs) in the UK and GPs in Australia explain their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing practices and to illuminate how these explanations are similar and how they are ...
Open Access
Article
A ‘systems’ approach to suicide prevention: radical change or doing the same things better?
Published 2017-04-01
Suicide is a significant public health concern. Continued high suicide rates, coupled with emerging international evidence, have led to the development of a ‘systems’ approach to suicide prevention, which is now being ...
Open Access
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Vaccines – but not as we know them: An ethical evaluation of HPV vaccination policy in Australia
Published 2011-01-01
Objective: To show how systematic ethical evaluation of public health policy may reveal issues of moral significance for critical examination. Method: Using Australia's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program as an ...
Open Access
Article
Societal perspective on access to publicly subsidised medicines: A cross sectional survey of 3080 adults in Australia
Published 2017-01-01
Background Around the world government agencies responsible for the selection and reimbursement of prescribed medicines and other health technologies are considering how best to bring community preferences into their ...
Open Access
Article
A Test Unlike Any Other
Published 2015-01-01
My story of direct-to-consumer personal genome testing (DTCPGT) differs from many of those published online because it was inspired not so much by a desire to understand my background or my future but by a research interest ...
Open Access
Article
Epidemiology, quality control and consumer access in the medical marketplace: the changing landscape of human genetic technology regulation in Australia
Published 2013-01-01
Advances in genetics, genetic therapeutics and the application of genetic technologies to many aspects of human life have challenged the capacity of regulatory authorities and legislative processes the world over. In ...
Open Access
Article
Assessing the public acceptability of proposed policy interventions to reduce the misuse of antibiotics in Australia: A report on two community juries
Published 2017-01-01
Objective To elicit the views of well-informed community members on the acceptability of proposed policy interventions designed to improve community use of antibiotics in Australia. Design Two community juries held in ...
Open Access
Article