Australia is the only developed country to consistently undertake a developmental census of its children nationwide. The repeated collection of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine the prevalence of developmental vulnerability across Australia's states and territories, the socio-economic distribution of developmental vulnerability across jurisdictions, and how these distributions might have changed over time. ...

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• 2020
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Kevin Natasha Helen Runions Pearce Monks KC NP H BSc (Hons) BEd MA PhD PhD (Public Health), PostGrad Dip (Health Promotion), BApp Sc MPH BA(Psych) PhD Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Senior Project Officer 08 6319 1470 ...

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• 2021
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Engagement with preschool programs in Australia may present a plausible, equitable, and modifiable approach to improving children's developmental outcomes ...

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• 2016
• April 2016

Early child development may have important consequences for inequalities in health and well-being. This paper explores population level patterns of child... ...

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• 2012
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Burn injuries are traumatic experiences that can detrimentally impact an individual’s psychological and emotional wellbeing. Despite this, some survivors adapt to psychosocial challenges better than others despite similar characteristics relating to the burn. ...

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• 2022
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Emerging evidence indicates that the built environment influences early child development. Access to, and the quality of, built environment features vary with the socioeconomic status (SES) of neighbourhoods. It has not yet been established whether the association between built environment features and early child development varies by neighbourhood SES. ...

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This report presents the evaluation findings of headspace, a service to improve the mental health and social and emotional wellbeing of young people ...

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• 2015
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Yael Perry YP BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD Program Head, Mental Health & Youth; Head, Youth Mental Health 08 6319 1298 yael.perry@telethonkids.org.au Program Head, Mental Health & Youth; Head, Youth Mental Health @yaelperry she/her/hers A/Prof ...

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We examined gestational age from preterm to post-term against a national minimum standard for academic achievement in population data. ...

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• 2017
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Alanna Neida Tess Sincovich Sechague Monroy Gregory AS NSM TG BPsych(Hons), PhD BDS, MPH BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) Senior Research Officer Research Assistant Senior Research Fellow 08 6375 6108 +61 8 6375 6113 Alanna.sincovich@ ...

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These findings demonstrate the immediate value of whole-school interventions to reduce bullying behaviour and associated harms among students ...

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• 2018
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ADHD patients showed substantially diminished intrinsic coupling for 7 connections and increased coupling for 4 connections ...

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• 2019
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