Early identification and management of the healthcare issues faced by adolescent refugees resettling in countries are key to improving long-term health outcomes ...

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• 2016
• July 2016

Amy Keerthi Jenny Daniel Finlay-Jones Kottampally Downs Ta AFJ KK JA DT BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) Bsc (Hons), ...

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Methodological issues and implications for interventions to support young Aboriginal people's adaptation are discussed. ...

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• 2013
• October 2013

Planetary health is a broad multidisciplinary effort that attempts to address what has been described as “Anthropocene Syndrome”—the wicked, interrelated challenges of our time. These include, but are not limited to, grotesque biodiversity losses, climate change, environmental degradation, resource depletion, the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), health inequalities, social injustices, erosion of wisdom and civility, together with the many structural underpinnings of these grand challenges. ...

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• 2021
• March 2021

High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain. ...

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• 2013
• July 2013

The media plays a powerful role in shaping health-related attitudes and behaviours. We investigated media reports about children's independent mobility (CIM) and associations with parental attitudes towards CIM. CIM-related media reports (newspaper, online, television) during a 3-month period were extracted from two databases. ...

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• 2022
• August 2022

Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

Steve Zubrick SR FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1409 Stephen.zubrick@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Emeritus ...

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The high prevalence of social, emotional and behavioural health problems in children and young people in Australia ...

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• 2011
• July 2011

Research is needed to determine best practice for genomic testing in the context of child interstitial or diffuse lung disease. We explored parent's and child's health-related quality of life, parents' perceived understanding of a genomic testing study, satisfaction with information and the study and decisional regret to undertake genomic testing. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022