Tess Neida Zara Gregory Sechague Monroy Boulton TG NSM ZB BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) BDS, MPH BPsych (Hons) Senior Research Fellow Research ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Early Years Systems Evidence

Public health weight-loss interventions seem to be based on an outdated understanding of the science. ...

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• 2013
• February 2013

The aim of this paper was to estimate the degree to which smoke-free facilities may facilitate smoking cessation in smokers with mental illness by estimating... ...

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• 2011
• December 2011

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• 2017

It is well established that children’s school readiness is associated with their later academic achievement, but less is known about whether school readiness is also associated with other measures of school success, such as students’ social and emotional wellbeing. While some previous research has shown a link between early social and emotional development and student wellbeing, results are mixed and the strength of these relationships vary depending on whether data is based on child, teachers or parents ratings and which specific student wellbeing outcomes are measured. ...

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• 2020
• August 2020

Australia’s Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) is one of only a handful of national immunisation registers world-wide. ...

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• 2017
• April 2017

Variation in receptive vocabulary ability is associated with variation in children's school achievement, and low receptive vocabulary ability is a risk... ...

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• 2013
• September 2013

Australia really is a lucky country, but if we want future prosperity, then focusing on the health and wellbeing of our children is one of the most important... ...

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• 2014
• July 2014

Research program 1 Research program: 2 Research program 3 Conceptual framework Our decision to organise our new program of research into the three ...

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Asthma is among the commonest noncommunicable diseases of childhood and often occurs with other atopic comorbidities. A previous case-control study found evidence that compared to children who received acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines in early infancy, children who received one or more doses of whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccine had lower risk of developing IgE-mediated food allergy. We hypothesized that wP vaccination in early infancy might protect against atopic asthma in childhood.  ...

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• 2023
• October 2023