Maternal stressful life events during pregnancy have been associated with immune dysregulation and increased risk for asthma and atopy in offspring. Few studies have investigated whether prenatal stress is associated with increased overall or specific infectious diseases in childhood, nor explored sex differences. We sought to examine the relationship between the nature and timing of maternal stress in pregnancy and hospitalisation with infection in offspring. ...

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Early motor impairments have been reported in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), but it is not clear if early detection of motor impairments can identify children at risk for NDD or how early such impairments might be detected. Our aim was to characterize early motor function in children later diagnosed with NDD relative to typically developing children or normative data. ...

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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
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Francis Sarah Mitrou Johnson FG SJ BEc BA, PostGradDip; PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 francis.mitrou@telethonkids.org.au Sarah.Johnson@ ...

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Keely Leanne Amy Bebbington Fried Finlay-Jones KB LF AFJ MClinPsych/PhD BSc DipEd MSpEd EdD BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) McCusker Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Type 1 Diabetes Senior Research Fellow Head, Early ...

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Using a dataset of Australian children, we have the opportunity to not only investigate the transfer of educational resources across 3 generations in Australia. ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

The maternal experience of stressful events during pregnancy has been associated with a number of adverse consequences for behavioral development offspring... ...

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• 2011
• January 2011

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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Researchers conducting program evaluations in other contexts are advised to consider testing for this potential source of bias in their studies ...

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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
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Francis Ha Steve Mitrou Nguyen Zubrick FG HN SR BEc PhD FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Senior Research Fellow Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 08 ...

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We have also been engaged with and excited by the attempts to adopt a public health approach to the care and protection of children as described throughout this book ...

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• 2019
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