Understanding variations in risk profiles among persistently non-attending children will inform the development of absence interventions. ...

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• 2018
• February 2018

Francis Ha Steve Mitrou Nguyen Zubrick FG HN SR BEc PhD FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development ...

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Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity has been linked with an increased risk for negative emotionality and inattentiveness in offspring in early childhood. ...

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• 2013
• January 2013

An intensive health promotion campaign which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of a chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children launched this month in Perth. ...

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• 2023
• August

A new report released by the Telethon Kids Institute in collaboration with Victoria University has revealed the significant social and emotional toll of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). ...

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• 2020
• July

Telethon Kids Institute will bring science to the Kimberley for a second year in 2024 after the Federal Government today announced a $20,000 grant for the Institute to deliver the Broome STEM Festival. ...

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• May

No evidence to demonstrate relationships with symptoms and viruses, prolonged symptoms, prolonged shedding or patterns of virus infections in CF ...

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• 2014
• December 2014

We sought to determine risk factors for the onset of bronchiectasis, using data collected by the Australian Respiratory Early Surveillance Team for Cystic... ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

Understanding informant discrepancies and their meaning is pivotal to designing surveys that generate robust insights into the health of sexual-minority adolescents ...

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• 2020
• January 2020