The social media application TikTok allows users to view and upload short-form videos. Recent evidence suggests it has significant potential for both industry and health promoters to influence public health behaviours. This protocol describes a standardised, replicable process for investigations that can be tailored to various areas of research interest, allowing comparison of content and features across public health topics. ...

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• 2023
• March 2023

The concept of planetary health blurs the artificial lines between health at scales of person, place, and planet. It emphasizes the interconnected grand challenges of our time, and underscores the need for integration of biological, psychological, social, and cultural aspects of health in the modern environment. Here, in our Viewpoint article, we revisit vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk’s contention that wisdom is central to the concept of planetary health. ...

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• 2021
• October 2021

The term “Anthropocene Syndrome” describes the wicked interrelated challenges of our time. We expand the discourse on positive social contagion and argue that empowerment through education can help lead to an information transformation with the aim of flourishing along every link in the person, place and planet continuum. ...

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• 2021
• January 2021

Kids and families can get their hands dirty at Sunday’s Telethon Family Festival at RAC Arena, with Telethon Kids Institute showcasing some of its world-class research. ...

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• 2022
• October

Telethon Kids Institute dietitian and nutritionist Dr Roslyn Giglia shares her top 10 tips for kids nutrition and physical activity. ...

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• 2015
• June

The unprecedented global rise in mental anguish is closely linked with the erosion of our social fabric, economic and political systems, and to our natural environments. We are facing multiple new large-scale threats to health, safety, and security, with a growing lack of trust in others and in authorities. ...

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• 2022
• August 2022

The rise in IgE-mediated food allergy in recent times is the likely result of gene-environment interactions mediated via epigenetic pathways. ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

This paper is a review about the importance of alterations to the DNA molecule, rather than the DNA sequence, in the development of the immune system, and... ...

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• 2014
• June 2014

The rise in food allergy is more rapid than genetic deviation would allow and the current consensus is that environmental factors integrally linked to the... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Telethon Kids Institute researchers have found more than half of young people who consumed energy drinks suffered negative health effects. ...

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• 2019
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