Depression and anxiety are often first experienced during childhood and adolescence, and interest in the prevention of these disorders is growing. The focus of this review was to assess the effectiveness of psychological prevention programs delivered in schools, and to provide an update to our previous review from five years ago (Werner-Seidler, Perry, Calear, Newby, & Christensen, 2017). ...

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• 2021
• November 2021

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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• 2021
• August 2021

Although adolescent dietary patterns tend to be of poor quality, it is unclear whether dietary patterns established in adolescence persist into adulthood. We examined trajectories across adolescence and early adulthood for 2 major dietary patterns and their associations with childhood and parental factors. Using data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine Study), intakes of 38 food groups were estimated at ages 14, 17, 20 and 22 y in 1414 participants using evaluated FFQs. ...

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• 2020
• November 2020

Findings suggest Australian supermarket CSR policies are not likely to adequately contribute to improving population diets or sustainability of food systems ...

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• 2019
• April 2019

Our result highlighted that miRNA-target gene network contributes to human disease genetics in a cell type-specific manner ...

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• 2018
• December 2018

This review synthesized the literature that describes the position and power of supermarkets in the Australian system, and the implications for public health. ...

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• 2018
• February 2018

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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• 2017
• October 2017

CAGEd-oPOSSUM can identify transcription factors that act as key regulators of genes involved in specific mammalian cell and tissue types ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

The role of HOXD10 in the regulation of VEGFR-3 signaling in lymphatic endothelial cells, and in the control of lymphangiogenesis and permeability ...

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• 2016
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Yasmin Tess Ellen Alanna Neida Trudy Harman-Smith Gregory Harvey Sincovich Sechague Monroy Crickmar YHS TG EH AS NSM TC BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) BSocWk(Hons) BPsych(Hons), PhD BDS, MPH BECE Head, Early Years Systems ...

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Alanna Mary Zara Honey Neida Tess Sincovich Brushe Boulton Rahmanian Sechague Monroy Gregory AS MB ZB HR NSM TG BPsych(Hons), PhD BPsych(Hons), PhD (Public Health) BPsych (Hons) BSc (Human Physiology), MPH, MPhil (Medical Science) BDS, MPH BSc (Hons ...

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Helen Alix Fiona Nicole Elmie Lisa Rigel Milroy Woolard Wood Wickens Janse Van Rensburg McGivern Paciente HM AW FW NW EJVR LM RP MBBS; FRANZCP; CATCAP BPsych (Hons), PhD BHlthSc (Hons) BA, BSc BA (Hons 1, Psych) MPH (Applied Public Health and Public ...

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