Using a dataset of Australian children, we have the opportunity to not only investigate the transfer of educational resources across 3 generations in Australia. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• March 2018

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

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• February 2018

Children of mothers with alcohol use disorders are at risk of not meeting minimum educational benchmarks in numeracy and literacy, with the risk highest among Indigenous children. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• May 2017

Aims, sample design, development of survey content, field procedures and final questionnaires of the Young Minds Matter study ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

The need to target prevention and intervention efforts for childhood overweight and obesity towards families with overweight parents ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2016
• November 2016

Overweight and obese children reported greater psychosocial distress than healthy weight children, and these differences were more pronounced for girls than boys. ...

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• 2017
• July 2017

Quick facts Congenital CMV occurs in ½ to 1% of the approximately 300,000 babies born in Australia every year –around 3,000 cases every year. About ...

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• 2022
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The potential for human-computer interaction to have a substantial impact on adults is well documented. However, its potential importance prior to birth has rarely been reported. Parental use of smartphones and tablet computers could influence the relationship between parent and baby during pregnancy (prenatal attachment) and thus child development. ...

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• 2022
• December 2022

There are strong socioeconomic and psychosocial gradients in both current smoking and smoking cessation. ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

Early child development may have important consequences for inequalities in health and well-being. This paper explores population level patterns of child... ...

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• 2012
• September 2012