Findings support the aims of the early Human Capability Index in being adaptable and applicable for use within a range of low and middle income countries ...

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• 2019
• December 2019

Children who attended playgroup had better development at school entry relative to those who had not attended playgroup ...

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• 2020
• May 2020

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
• September 2012

Yasmin Sandra Mary Alanna Harman-Smith Van Diermen Brushe Sincovich YHS SVD MB AS BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD BPsych(Hons), PhD (Public Health) BPsych(Hons), PhD Head, Early Years Systems Evidence; Head, Tenders Support Unit Community Engagement ...

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To understand the prevalence of children and adolescents’ electronic device use (EDU) in the hour before bed and identify sociodemographic groups that are at increased risk of problematic use. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

Globally, as scale up of early childhood education (ECE) continues, monitoring ECE quality is imperative to promote service aspects that drive positive outcomes for children. Monitoring of ECE quality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is scarce, limited by challenges in varied conceptualisations of quality, lack of measurement tools that reflect local culture and context, and implementation difficulties in low resource settings. ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

The infant simulator-based Virtual Infant Parenting programme did not achieve its aim of reducing teenage pregnancy ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

This project analysed AEDC results across Australia, to identify communities with significant improvement (decreases in developmental vulnerability) between 2009 and 2012 ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

Inclusion of early child development in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda raises issues of how this goal should be monitored, particularly in low resource settings. The aim of this paper was to explore the validity of the early Human Capability Index (eHCI); a population measure designed to capture the holistic development of children aged 3-5 years. Convergent, divergent, discriminant and concurrent validity were examined by exploring the associations between eHCI domains and child (sex, age, stunting status, preschool attendance) and family (maternal education, home learning environment) characteristics. Analyses were repeated using data from seven low and middle income countries. ...

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• 2020
• June 2020

Yasmin Tess Harman-Smith Gregory YHS TG BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) Head, Early Years Systems Evidence; Head, Tenders Support Unit Senior Research Fellow +61 8 6375 6113 Yasmin.harman-smith@telethonkids.org.au tess.gregory@ ...

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Amy Helen Jenny Finlay-Jones Milroy Downs AFJ HM JA BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) MBBS; FRANZCP; CATCAP BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD Head, Early Neurodevelopment & Mental Health; Healthway WA Senior Research Fellow ...

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Mining developments are being required to consider how they affect local communities and implement strategies to minimise negative impacts they may be causing ...

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• 2018
• February 2018