Mothers of children diagnosed with cancer have been shown to experience high rates of psychological distress and poor physical health. Pregnancy further increases the healthcare needs of mothers due to the marked physiological changes and psychological adaptations. ...

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• 2022
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The social determinants of health such as access to income, education, housing and healthcare, strongly shape the occurrence of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease at the household, community and national levels.  ...

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• 2023
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While there are many skin infections, reducing the burden of scabies and impetigo for remote living Aboriginal people, particularly children remains challenging. Aboriginal children living in remote communities have experienced the highest reported rate of impetigo in the world and are 15 times more likely to be admitted to hospital with a skin infection compared to non-Aboriginal children. ...

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A high burden of bacterial skin infections is well documented in remote-living Indigenous children and young people in high-income countries. ...

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• 2022
• November 2022

The aim of this study was to devise an evidence-based missing data rule for the Quality of Life Inventory-Disability (QI-Disability) questionnaire specifying how many missing items are permissible for domain and total scores to be calculated using simple imputation. ...

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Impetigo or skin sores are estimated to affect >162 million people worldwide. Detailed descriptions of the anatomical location of skin sores are lacking. ...

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Chris Jennifer Lea-Ann Peter Ruth Brennan-Jones Kent Kirkham Richmond Thornton C J LK PC RT PhD RN PhD MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP PhD Head, Ear Health Clinical Research Manager Co-Head, Bacterial Respiratory Infectious Disease Group; Microbiology Lead, ...

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Keely Amy Tim Bebbington Finlay-Jones Jones KB AFJ TW MClinPsych/PhD BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) MBBS DCH FRACP MD McCusker Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Type 1 Diabetes Head, Early Neurodevelopment & Mental ...

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Sarah Ben James Timothy Paduano Jackson Dimmock Budden SP BJ JD TB BPsych (Hons) BSc (Hons) PhD BSc (Hons); BComm; PhD BSc PhD PhD Candidate Research Theme Head, Brain and Behaviour Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate +6488 2661 ...

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Immunity is distinct in early life and greater precision is required in our understanding of mechanisms of early life protection to inform development of new pediatric vaccines ...

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There was evidence of extensive transmission of group A Streptococcus both within households and across the community ...

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Pat Tom Jonathan Holt Snelling Carapetis AM PG T JR PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Emeritus Honorary Researcher Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research Executive Director; Head, ...

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