Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have an inequitable burden of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), concentrated among young people and necessitating ongoing medical care during adolescence. There is an unmet need for improved well-being and support for these young people to complement current biomedical management. ...

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Zabia Chmielewski and community member The BHP FASD Prevention team have had a very busy 2017 with health promotion, consultation and data collection ...

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Churchill Fellowship Reports In 2014 Magistrate Catherine Crawford was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to facilitate travel to Canada, the United ...

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Although children of convicted parents experience a higher incidence of sociodemographic risk, their parents' criminal activity constitutes an independent risk factor for their development ...

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Determining young people's knowledge of energy drink (EDs), factors influencing ED consumption and intervention strategies to lower ED consuption in youth. ...

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Improving the wellbeing of Australian children and youth: the importance of bridging the know-do gap ...

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This study assessed the functional skills of three girls with RTT aged 35 years before and during participation in a CE programme. ...

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Art featured for the Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort (Our Children, Our Heart) Project, by the artist Mrs Millie Penny. ...

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Despite immense benefits of physical activity on health and developmental outcomes, few children achieve recommended daily levels of physical activity. Given more than half of families with children own a dog, we investigated the effect of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention to encourage dog-facilitated physical activity through increased family dog walking and children's active play with their dog. ...

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• 2022
• May 2022

A Telethon Kids Institute study designed to gauge community awareness of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has found parents and parents-to-be are highly aware of the virus and are open to immunisation to tackle it. ...

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