HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria are the three most important infectious diseases in Ethiopia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the spatial codistribution of these diseases is critical for designing geographically targeted and integrated disease control programmes. This study investigated the spatial overlap and drivers of HIV, TB and malaria prevalence in Ethiopia. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• February 2022

Family-based lifestyle interventions for children/adolescents with severe levels of obesity are numerous, but evidence indicates programs fail to elicit short- or longer-term weight loss outcomes. Families with lived experience can provide valuable insight as we strive to improve outcomes from programs. Our aim was to explore elements that families desired in a program designed to treat severe levels of obesity in young people. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• October 2023

This study explored mental health profiles in Australian school students using indicators of well-being (i.e., optimism, life satisfaction, and happiness) and psychological distress (i.e., sadness and worries). The sample included 75,757 students (ages 8-18 years) who completed the 2019 South Australian Wellbeing and Engagement Collection. ...

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• 2024
• April 2024

Hayley Francis Rosemary Karen Natasha Kevin Andrea Sarah Ha Helen Jon Phoebe Christian Mitrou Cahill Lombardi Pearce Runions Nathan Johnson Nguyen ...

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• Brain and Behaviour
• Life Course Centre

A minority of 4- to 17-year-olds with ADHD and major depressive disorder were being treated with stimulant or antidepressant medication ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

Policy Context Indicator Information View the Maps Mothers aged under 20 years are classified as teenage mothers1. There are a range of risk factors ...

• Western Australian Child Development Atlas
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Emma Adams EA BExSc, MPH Acting Research Officer -Playce, Research Assistant & PhD student Emma.Adams@telethonkids.org.au Research Assistant, PhD ...

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• The ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course

Bep Shakara Mirella Uink Liddelow-Hunt Wilson BU SLH MW BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD BPhil(Hons) MAppPsych(Organisational), BA(Hons.) ...

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Some of the nation’s leading medical researchers will converge on Darwin this week to step out a plan to wipe out rheumatic heart disease. ...

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• 2017
• May

Hayley Karen Christian Lombardi HC KL BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHSc (Hons), PhD Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National ...

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