Pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality globally. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• March 2018

Existing quality of life scales for children in the general population or with other disabilities did not capture the QOL of children with Rett syndrome ...

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• 2016
• March 2016

The objective of this paper was to measure changes in caesarean delivery rates for primiparous women in Western Australia during 1995–2010 stratified by... ...

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• 2015
• July 2015

Data linkage is the bringing together of specific datasets from different sources using demographic information on individuals within a population. ...

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• 2013
• January 2013

Christopher Hannah Lea-Ann Blyth Moore Kirkham CC HC LK MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD PhD Director, Wesfarmers ...

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Emily Terrance Anya Brittany Fletcher Johns Jones Dewdney EF T AJ BD BSc (Hons) MRes PhD BSc MSc PhD BSc, MBSc, PhD Senior Research Fellow Honorary ...

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The Food and Nutrition Research Team conducts innovative and multidisciplinary research to better understand how the environments within which children live, play and go to school influence the types of foods they eat and their risk of overweight and obesity. ...

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The measurement of quality of life (QOL) in children with intellectual disability often relies upon proxy report via caregivers. The current study investigated whether caregiver psychological distress mediates or moderates the effects of impairment on their ratings of QOL in children with intellectual disability. ...

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• 2021
• May 2021

The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease has changed over the last decade and there has been an increase in cases caused by serogroup W135, particularly in Indigenous children. Extra‐meningeal and atypical presentations are associated with serogroup W and may delay diagnosis and therefore appropriate treatment. Public and clinician awareness are essential in facilitating effective new vaccine schedule implementation. ...

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• 2021
• March 2021

To assess potential benefits and direct healthcare cost savings with expansion of an existing childhood influenza immunisation program, we developed a dynamic transmission model for the state of Western Australia, evaluating increasing coverage in children < 5 years and routinely immunising school-aged children. ...

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• 2023
• December 2023