We examined the relationship between the onset and pattern of childhood mental health disorders and subsequent current smoking status at age 17 years. ...

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• 2012
• May 2012

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

Alanna Sincovich AS BPsych(Hons), PhD Senior Research Officer 08 6375 6108 Alanna.sincovich@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Officer @AlannaSincovich Alanna is a Senior Research Officer at the Telethon Kids Institute. Her research takes a ...

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This study sought to determine the social and emotional impact of maternal loss on Aboriginal children and young people using data from the Western... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• September 2011

The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2012
• September 2012

Previous studies showed that unfavourable weather conditions discourage physical activity. However, it remains unclear whether unfavourable weather conditions have a differential impact on physical activity in children compared with adults. ...

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• 2023
• April 2023

Penicillin allergy accounts for the majority of all reported adverse drug reactions in adults and children. Foregoing first-line antibiotic therapy due to penicillin allergy label is associated with an increased prevalence of infections by resistant organisms and longer hospitalisation. ...

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• 2022
• May 2022

Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg BRVUS MD, PhD, DEAA, FANZA Chair of Paediatric anaesthesia, University of Western Australia; Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Perth Children’s Hospital; Team Leader, Perioperative Medicine Team; Program Lead, ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

This cohort study provides new evidence of a disparity between the proportion of the population with rare diseases and their combined health-system costs ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

It has been argued that the preponderance of studies into individual smoking cessation therapies seems grossly out of proportion to the number of people... ...

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• 2011
• March 2011

In 2022, an international conference was held focusing on 'participation'. We shared current evidence, identified knowledge gaps and worked together to understand what new knowledge and community and practice changes were needed. This brief communication is a summary of the conference delegates' discussions.   ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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• 2024
• May 2024