School bullying is a public health concern affecting the physical and mental health of children and young people. While school-based interventions to prevent bullying have been developed internationally, the effectiveness of many interventions has been mixed and modest. ...

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• 2022
• October 2022

Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are one of the most widespread and impactful malaria interventions in Africa, yet a spatially-resolved time series of ITN coverage has never been published. Using data from multiple sources, we generate high-resolution maps of ITN access, use, and nets-per-capita annually from 2000 to 2020 across the 40 highest-burden African countries. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Amy Jenny Andrew Helen Deborah Martyn Melissa Phil Kandice Gail Vincent Finlay-Jones Downs Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Leonard Strickland Symons Licari Stumbles Varcin Alvares Mancini AFJ JA AJ HM DH MS ML PS KJ GA VOM BPsych(Hons), MPsych ...

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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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Andrew Helen Jenny Nada Peter Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Leonard Downs Murphy Jacoby AJ HM JA NM PJ PhD MBChB MPH BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD MAPP BA (Hons) MSc Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at Telethon Kids and ...

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Melissa Gail Matt Jenny Andrew Licari Alvares Cooper Downs Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew ML GA MC JA AJ PhD PhD BCA Marketing, BSc Statistics and Applied Statistics, PhD BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD PhD Senior Research Fellow Senior Research ...

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To investigate associations between functioning, community participation, and quality of life (QoL) and identify whether participation mediates the effects of functioning on QoL. ...

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• 2021
• January 2021

Many children with intellectual disability live with medical comorbidities. This study examined the impacts of comorbidities on quality of life (QOL) of children with intellectual disabilities and whether impacts varied with caregiver perceptions that medical needs had been met. ...

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• 2021
• April 2021

Daily physical activity is critical during the early years of life for facilitating children's health and development. A large proportion of preschool children do not achieve the recommended 3 h of daily physical activity. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services are a key setting to intervene to increase physical activity. There is a significant need for ECEC specific physical activity policy, including clearer guidelines on the amount of physical activity children should do during care, and strategies for implementation of these guidelines. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

These data suggest that the link between maternal hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and child behavioral development begins in the first year of life. ...

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• 2013
• April 2013

Maternal antenatal exposure to life stress events has differing effects on the school performance of male and female offspring. ...

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• 2013
• March 2013

Helen Alix Milroy Woolard HM AW MBBS; FRANZCP; CATCAP BPsych (Hons), PhD Honorary Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1823 Alix.woolard@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research Fellow Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Child Mental Health Helen ...

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