To prevent persistent victimization, schools and teachers need to be better equipped to respond effectively when a student first becomes a target of bullying ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

These challenges in measuring early childhood development are exacerbated when making comparisons across cultures ...

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• 2020
• May 2020

Comparable survey data on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are highly sought after by policymakers to inform policies aimed at closing ethnic... ...

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• 2015
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Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand consistently place near the top of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index... ...

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• 2010
• January 2010

Ellen Adrienne Yasmin Harvey Gregory Harman-Smith EH adrienne.gregory@telethonkids.org.au YHS BSocWk(Hons) BSocSci, MPhil BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD Senior Project Coordinator Project Officer Head, Early Years Systems Evidence; Head, Tenders Support ...

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This study aimed to (1) examine the strength of the association between mental disorders/mental health problems, risk behaviours and tobacco smoking among Australian adolescents, (2) compare rates of tobacco smoking among Australian adolescents with major depressive disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and/or conduct disorder in 2013/14 vs 1998, and (3) identify the extent to which an association between tobacco smoking and mental health problems among adolescents can be attributed to non-mental health risk factors. ...

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• 2020
• April 2020

There is a large volume of research on the persistence of advantage and disadvantage across generations. Intergenerational studies typically address family resources as independent factors, which ignores how risks cluster together and accumulate over time. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Tom Snelling T BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research 08 6319 1817 tom.snelling@telethonkids.org.au Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research Professor Tom Snelling is Head of the Infectious Disease ...

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Despite universal access to government-funded direct-acting antivirals in 2016, the rate of hepatitis C treatment uptake in Australia has declined substantially. Most hepatitis C is related to injecting drug use; reducing the hepatitis C burden among people who inject drugs is, therefore, paramount to reach hepatitis C elimination targets.  ...

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• 2024
• July 2024

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a global cause of severe respiratory morbidity and mortality in infants. While preventive and therapeutic interventions are being developed, including antivirals, vaccines and monoclonal antibodies, little is known about the global molecular epidemiology of RSV. INFORM is a prospective, multicenter, global clinical study performed by ReSViNET to investigate the worldwide molecular diversity of RSV isolates collected from children less than 5 years of age. ...

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• 2020
• June 2020

Despite social environmental factors such as deprivation, urbanicity, migration and adversity being established risk factors for psychotic disorders... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Much information exists about functions of the human placenta and about potential mechanisms by which the placenta may influence human health or disease... ...

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• 2011
• June 2011