Despite high breastfeeding initiation rates in Australia, few mothers exclusively breastfeed their infants to six months. This is particularly evident in... ...

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• 2015
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This paper presents data that infants born following assisted reproductive technologies (ART) compared with non-ART singletons display increases in low birth... ...

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• 2014
• April 2014

Liz Tim Davis Jones EA TW MBBS FRACP PhD MBBS DCH FRACP MD Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; Clinical Lead, Diabetes and Obesity ...

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Our Project Management Team Get in Touch Get in touch with The ORIGINS Project team ORIGINSproject@telethonkids.org.au Find us at one of our two ...

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The impact of perinatal outcomes, maternal social and health outcomes and level of culturally secure service availability on the health outcomes of Western Australian Aboriginal infants and children ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

Early identification of oropharyngeal dysphagia and the management of seizures may help prevent serious respiratory illness ...

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• 2018
• November 2018

We used data from a large Australian population to determine the independent and moderating effects of maltreatment and parental SSDs on early childhood. ...

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• 2017
• December 2017

This letter to the editor endorses data linkage studies and cites their potential value over other types of epidemiological studies within the field of... ...

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• 2015
• October 2015

Young people who have had contact with the criminal justice system are at increased risk of early death, especially from injuries. However, deaths due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in this population remain poorly described. We aimed to estimate mortality due to NCDs in people with a history of involvement with the youth justice system, compare NCD mortality rates in this population with those in the general population, and characterise demographic and justice-related factors associated with deaths caused by NCDs in people with a history of contact with the youth justice system. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023

The transition to parenthood is a high-risk period for many parents and is an important period for child development. Research has identified that parental mental health, reflective functioning (capacity to consider mental states of oneself and others) and coparenting (capacity to work together well as a parenting team) may be particularly significant predictors of later child outcomes, however these factors have seldom been considered together. ...

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• 2023
• May 2023