We assess progress towards improved case management of childhood diarrhea in Nigeria over a period of targeted health systems reform from 2013 to 2018. Individual and community data from three Demographic and Health Survey rounds are leveraged in a geospatial model designed for stratified estimation by venue of treatment seeking and State. ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

Family-based lifestyle interventions (FBLIs) are an important method for treating childhood weight problems. Despite being recognized as an effective intervention method, the optimal structure of these interventions for children’s overweight and obesity has yet to be determined. ...

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• 2022
• August 2022

To evaluate the effects of a physical activity programme on sedentary behaviour and physical activity in ambulant individuals with Rett syndrome. ...

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• 2022
• October 2022

Family-based lifestyle interventions for children/adolescents with severe levels of obesity are numerous, but evidence indicates programs fail to elicit short- or longer-term weight loss outcomes. Families with lived experience can provide valuable insight as we strive to improve outcomes from programs. Our aim was to explore elements that families desired in a program designed to treat severe levels of obesity in young people. ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

The relationship between early life episodes of otitis media and later behavioural development with adjustment for confounders. ...

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• 2018
• July 2018

Lead Investigator Dr Sharynne Hamilton is a Ngunnawal woman living on Noongar Boodjar. She was a Senior Research Fellow and the Co-Head of Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing at Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, now at the University of Technology ...

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Penelope Yael Jacinta Strauss Perry Freeman PS YP JF BA, MPH, PhD BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BScs, MPH Research Fellow in Youth Suicide Prevention Program Head, Mental Health & Youth; Head, Youth Mental Health Program Manager, Youth Mental ...

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This review emphasises the need to gain evidence for the mechanisms linking early racism exposure to adverse health outcomes in later life ...

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• 2020
• April 2020

This study aimed to elucidate how an adverse prenatal environment, as defined by the presence of a number of known prenatal risk factors, would influence... ...

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• 2014
• November 2014

Aaron Timothy Bonnie James Ben Simpson Budden Furzer Dimmock Jackson AS TB BF JD BJ BSc (Hons) BSc PhD BA/BSc (Hons) PhD BSc (Hons); BComm; PhD BSc (Hons) PhD PhD Candidate Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research ...

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Findings were mixed, with support both for negative and for positive associations of central nervous 5-HT function with aggression in children and adolescents ...

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• 2019
• February 2019

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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