Despite immense benefits of physical activity on health and developmental outcomes, few children achieve recommended daily levels of physical activity. Given more than half of families with children own a dog, we investigated the effect of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention to encourage dog-facilitated physical activity through increased family dog walking and children's active play with their dog. ...

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• 2022
• May 2022

Hayley Liz Gina Pulan Zino Christian Wenden Trapp Bai Phiri HC LW GT PB ZP BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHlthSc MPH BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BSc, MPH BSc Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National Heart Foundation Future ...

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Health professionals have an important role to play in preventing prenatal alcohol exposure ...

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• 2010
• August 2010

School readiness is a construct used by educators and policy makers to describe a range of abilities that are beneficial for children transitioning to school. The association of socioeconomic disadvantage with developmental vulnerability when children start school is well established. Parents play a crucial role in supporting children’s transition to school and are acknowledged as their child’s first and foremost teacher. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

Climatic conditions play a key role in the transmission and pathophysiology of respiratory tract infections, either directly or indirectly. However, their impact on the COVID-19 pandemic propagation is yet to be studied. ...

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• 2022
• November 2022

Hayley Christian HC BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow 08 6319 1040 hayley.christian@telethonkids.org.au Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and ...

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Social emotional development is imperative to young children's long-term psychological and physical health. Physical activity (PA) may be important for young children's social emotional development. The association between preschooler PA duration and intensity and social emotional development was investigated. ...

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• 2021
• May 2021

These findings suggest that genetic variants at the VDR locus may play a role in acute wheeze/asthma severity in children ...

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• 2020
• May 2020

Although genetic factors are known to play a causal role in specific language impairment (SLI), environmental factors may also be important. This study... ...

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• 2014
• August 2014

Host genetics are likely to play a crucial role, particularly variants that alter key innate immune response genes. ...

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• 2013
• October 2013

Hayley Andrea Liz Phoebe Pulan Zino Christian Nathan Wenden George Bai Phiri HC AN LW P PB ZP BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHlthSc (hons), PhD BHlthSc MPH BSc(Neuro), MPH BSc, MPH BSc Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National ...

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School-based nutrition education (NE) has an important role in promoting healthy eating habits and helping prevent chronic diseases – particularly among disadvantaged children and youth who are more likely to experience poor diet quality.  ...

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• 2024
• March 2024