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Find out about the research outputs for the Development Pathways Project, and see the published research outcomes.

 Work in progress: updated 24 July 2019 

This web page is currently being developed to provide public access to the DPP's research publications.
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Sub-sections of this web page will be updated as they are completed.

Topics (in alphabetical order): Aboriginal health and wellbeing;  Alcohol related-harm;  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD);  Autism;  Birth defects; Child maltreatment and child protection involvement;  Criminal justice; Data linkage systems and methods;  Dental health;  Diabetes;  Disability; Economics;  Education;  Family and domestic violence;  Injury and self-harm;  Mental health; Out-of-home care;  Pregnancy and births                   

Government reports

2018

  • Lima, F., Maclean, M., & O'Donnell, M. (2018). Exploring outcomes for children who have experienced out-of-home care. Retrieved from: https://www.telethonkids.org.au/globalassets/media/documents/projects/developmental-pathways-project/dcpfs-outcomes-report-final.pdf [Key findings] [Full report (PDF)] 

2017

  • Sims, S., Maclean, M., Hansen, M., Ferrante, Pay, K., Cass, M., . . . Glauert, R. (2017). Pathways of young people in contact with multiple government agencies in Western Australia 1994 – 2014. Retrieved from: https://www.telethonkids.org.au/globalassets/media/documents/projects/developmental-pathways-project/ppp-pathwayswa1994-2014.pdf [Key findings] [Full report (PDF)]

Aboriginal health and wellbeing

2018

  • McNamara, B., Gubhaju, L., Jorm, L., Preen, D., Jones, J., Joshy, G., . . . Eades, S. (2018). Exploring factors impacting early childhood health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities: protocol for a population-based cohort study using data linkage (the ‘Defying the Odds’ study). BMJ Open, 8(3), e021236. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021236 [Abstract]

Prior to 2018

  • Jones, J., Wilson, M., Sullivan, E., AThe Kidsnson, L., Gilles, M., Simpson, P. L., . . . Butler, T. (2018). Australian Aboriginal women prisoners’ experiences of being a mother: a review. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 14(4), 221-231. doi:10.1108/IJPH-12-2017-0059 [Abstract]
  • Nembhard, W. N., Bourke, J., Leonard, H., Eckersley, L., Li, J., & Bower, C. (2016). Twenty‐five–year survival for aboriginal and caucasian children with congenital heart defects in Western Australia, 1980 to 2010. Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 106(12), 1016-1031. doi:10.1002/bdra.23572 [Abstract]
  • Eades, S. J., & Stanley, F. J. (2013). Improving the health of First Nations children in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 199(1), 12-13. doi:10.5694/mja13.10726 [Abstract] 
  • Ferrante, A. M. (2013). Assessing gender and ethnic differences in developmental trajectories of offending. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 46(3), 379-402. doi:10.1177/0004865813490948 [Abstract] 

  • Ferrante, A. M. (2012). Assessing the Influence of “Standard” and “Culturally Specific” Risk Factors on the Prevalence and Frequency of Offending: The Case of Indigenous Australians. Race and Justice, 3(1), 58-82. doi:10.1177/2153368712462410 [Abstract] 

  • McNamara, B. J., Gubhaju, L., Chamberlain, C., Stanley, F., & Eades, S. J. (2012). Early life influences on cardio-metabolic disease risk in aboriginal populations—what is the evidence? A systematic review of longitudinal and case–control studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(6), 1661-1682. doi:10.1093/ije/dys190 [Abstract]
  • Slack-Smith, L. M., Read, A. W., Colvin, L. J., Leonard, H., Kilpatrick, N., McAullay, D., & Messer, L. B. (2011). Total population investigation of dental hospitalisations in Indigenous children under five years in Western Australia using linked data. Australian Dental Journal, 56(4), 358-364. doi:10.1111/j.1834-7819.2011.01366.x [Abstract]
  • Langridge, A. T., Nassar, N., Li, J., & Stanley, F. J. (2010). Social and racial inequalities in preterm births in Western Australia, 1984 to 2006. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 24(4), 352-362. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3016.2010.01124.x [Abstract]
  • O’Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Leonard, H., Jacoby, P., Mathews, R., Patterson, Y., & Stanley, F. (2010). Characteristics of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal children and families with substantiated child maltreatment: a population-based study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 39(3), 921-928. doi:10.1093/ije/dyq005 [Abstract]

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Alcohol-related harm

2017

  • Hafekost, K., Lawrence, D., O’Leary, C., Bower, C., O’Donnell, M., Semmens, J., & Zubrick, S. R. (2017). Maternal alcohol use disorder and subsequent child protection contact: a record-linkage population cohort study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 72, 206-214. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.08.010 [Abstract]
  • O’Donnell, M., Sims, S., Maclean, M. J., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Gilbert, R., & Stanley, F. J. (2017). Trends in alcohol-related injury admissions in adolescents in Western Australia and England: population-based cohort study. BMJ Open, 7(5). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014913 [Abstract]

Prior to 2017

  • 2013 Intellectual disability: population-based estimates of the proportion attributable to maternal alcohol use disorder during pregnancy O'Leary, C., Leonard, H., Bourke, J., D'Antoine, H., Bartu, A., & Bower, C.
  • 2012 Heavy maternal alcohol consumption and cerebral palsy in the offspring O'Leary, C., Watson, L., D'Antoine, H., Stanley, F., & Bower, C.

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

2018

  • Abdullahi, I., Leonard, H., Cherian, S., Mutch, R., Glasson, E. J., de Klerk, N., & Downs, J. (2018). The risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities in children of immigrant and refugee parents: current knowledge and directions for future research. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 5(1), 29-42. doi:10.1007/s40489-017-0121-5 [Abstract]

Prior to 2018

  • Silva, D., Houghton, S., Hagemann, E., & Bower, C. (2015). Comorbidities of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: pregnancy risk factors and parent mental health. Community Mental Health Journal, 51(6), 738-745. doi:10.1007/s10597-014-9773-0 [Abstract]
  • Silva, D., Houghton, S., Hagemann, E., Jacoby, P., Jongeling, B., & Bower, C. (2015). Child attention deficit hyperactive disorder co morbidities on family stress: effect of medication. Community Mental Health Journal, 51(3), 347-353. doi:10.1007/s10597-014-9770-3 [Abstract]
  • 2014 Environmental risk factors by gender associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Silva, D., Colvin, L., Hagemann, E., & Bower, C.
  • 2014 Children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and their hospitalisations: population data linkage study Silva, D., Colvin, L., Hagemann, E., Stanley, F., & Bower, C.
  • 2014 Contact with the juvenile justice system in children treated with stimulant medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a population study Silva, D., Colvin, L., Glauert, R., & Bower, C.
  • 2014 Child attention deficit hyperactive disorder co morbidities on family stress: effect of medication Silva, D., Houghton, S., Hagemann, E., Jacoby, P., Jongeling, B., & Bower, C.
  • 2014 Comorbidities of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Pregnancy risk factors and parent mental health Silva, D., Houghton, S., Hagemann, E., & Bower, C.

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Autism

2018

  • Abdullahi, I., Leonard, H., Cherian, S., Mutch, R., Glasson, E. J., de Klerk, N., & Downs, J. (2018). The risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities in children of immigrant and refugee parents: current knowledge and directions for future research. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 5(1), 29-42. doi:10.1007/s40489-017-0121-5 [Abstract]

Prior to 2018

  • 2013 Application of population-based linked data to the study of intellectual disability and autism Leonard, H., Glasson, E., Bebbington, A., Hammond, G., Croft, D., Pikora, T., Fairthorne, J. , O’Donnell, M., O’Leary, C., Hansen, M., Watson, L., Francis, R. W., Carter, K. W., McKenzie, A., Bower, C., Bourke, J., & Glauert, R.
  • 2013 Maternal conditions and perinatal characteristics associated with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability Langridge, A. T., Glasson, E. J., Nassar, N., Jacoby, P., Pennell, C., Hagan, R., Bourke, J., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F. J.
  • 2013 Hospitalisation rates for children with intellectual disability or autism born in Western Australia 1983-1999: a population-based cohort study Bebbington ,A., Glasson, E., Bourke, J., de Klerk, N., & Leonard, H.
  • 2011 A comparison of autism prevalence trends in Denmark and Western Australia Parner, E. T., Thorsen, P., Dixon, G., de Klerk, N., Leonard, H., Nassar, N., Bourke, J., Bower, C., & Glasson, E. J.
  • 2011 Autism and intellectual disability are differentially related to sociodemographic background at birth Leonard, H., Glasson, E., Nassar, N., Whitehouse, A., Bebbington, A., Bourke, J., Jacoby, P., Dixon, G., Malacova, E., Bower, C., & Stanley, F.
  • 2009 Autism spectrum disorders in young children: effect of changes in diagnostic practices Nassar N, Dixon G, Bourke J, Bower C, Glasson E, de Klerk N, Leonard H

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Birth defects

2017

  • Jane, B., Camille, R. G., Robin, T., Carol, B., Alan, D., Kirsten, H., & Natasha, N. (2017). School absence and its effect on school performance for children born with orofacial clefts. Birth Defects Research, 109(13), 1048-1056. doi:10.1002/bdr2.1041 [Abstract]
  • Bell, J. C., Raynes‐Greenow, C., Turner, R., Bower, C., Dodson, A., Nicholls, W., & Nassar, N. (2017). School performance for children with cleft lip and palate: a population‐based study. Child: Care, Health and Development, 43(2), 222-231. doi:10.1111/cch.12388 [Abstract]

Prior to 2017

  • 2016 Twenty-five-year survival for Aboriginal and Caucasian children with congenital heart defects in Western Australia, 1980 to 2010 Nembhard, W. N., Bourke, J., Leonard, H., Eckersley, L., Li, J., & Bower, C. T.
  • 2015 Hospitalisations up to adulthood for children born with orofacial clefts Bell, J., Nassar, N., Turner, R., Bower, C., Gillett, D., McBain, W., & Raynes-Greenow, C.
  • 2015 Long-term survival for infants born with orofacial clefts in Western Australia Bell, J. C., Nassar, N., Bower, C., Turner, R. M., & Raynes-Greenow, C.
  • 2012 Heavy maternal alcohol consumption and cerebral palsy in the offspring O'Leary, C., Watson, L., D'Antoine, H., Stanley, F., & Bower, C.
  • 2011 The impact of single gene and chromosomal disorders on hospital admissions of children and adolescents: a population-based study Dye, D. E. , Brameld, K. J., Maxwell, S., Goldblatt, J., Bower, C., Leonard, H., Bourke, J., Glasson, E. J., & O'Leary, P.
  • 2011 Dispensing patterns and pregnancy outcomes for women dispensed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pregnancy Colvin, L., Slack-Smith L., Stanley, F. J., & Bower, C.
  • 2011 Commentary: Folate and neural tube defects-the influence of Smithells et al. on research and policy in the Antipodes Stanley, F. J, & Bower, C.
  • 2008 Relation between intrauterine growth and subsequent intellectual disability in a ten-year population cohort of children in Western Australia Leonard H, Nassar N, Bourke J, Blair E, Mulroy S, de Klerk N, Bower C
  • 2007 Co-occurrence of birth defects and intellectual disability Petterson B, Bourke J, Leonard H, Jacoby P, Bower C

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Child maltreatment and child protection involvement

2019

  • Cant, R. L., O’Donnell, M., Sims, S., & Harries, M. (2019). Overcrowded housing: One of a constellation of vulnerabilities for child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 93, 239-248. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.05.010 [Abstract]
  • O’Donnell, M., Taplin, S., Marriott, R., Lima, F., & Stanley, F. J. (2019). Infant removals: The need to address the over-representation of Aboriginal infants and community concerns of another ‘stolen generation’. Child Abuse & Neglect, 90, 88-98. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.01.017 [Abstract]

  • Orr, C., Fisher, C., Sims, S., Preen, D., Glauert, R., & O’Donnell, M. (2019). Hospitalisations for maternal assault are associated with increased risk of child protection involvement. Child Abuse & Neglect, 95, 104014. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.05.007 [Abstract] 

Prior to 2019

  • Bell, M. F., Bayliss, D. M., Glauert, R., & Ohan, J. L. (2018). School readiness of maltreated children: associations of timing, type, and chronicity of maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 76, 426-439. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.12.001 [Abstract]
  • Maclean, M. J., Taylor, C. L., & O'Donnell, M. (2018). Out-of-home care and the educational achievement, attendance, and suspensions of maltreated children: a propensity-matched study. The Journal of Pediatrics, 198, 287-293.e282. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.03.027 [Abstract] 

  • Dowell, C. M., Mejia, G. C., Preen, D. B., & Segal, L. (2018). Maternal incarceration, child protection, and infant mortality: a descriptive study of infant children of women prisoners in Western Australia. Health and Justice, 6(2). doi:10.1186/s40352-018-0060-y [Abstract]

  • Orr, C., Preen, D. B., Glauert, R., O'Donnell, M., Fisher, C., & Sims, S. (2018). Maternal assault admissions are associated with increased risk of child protection involvement. International Journal of Population Data Science, 3(4). doi:10.23889/ijpds.v3i4.772 [Abstract]
  • Hafekost, K., Lawrence, D., O’Leary, C., Bower, C., O’Donnell, M., Semmens, J., & Zubrick, S. R. (2017). Maternal alcohol use disorder and subsequent child protection contact: a record-linkage population cohort study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 72, 206-214. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.08.010 [Abstract]
  • Hu, N., Taylor, C. L., Li, J., & Glauert, R. A. (2017). The impact of child maltreatment on the risk of deliberate self-harm among adolescents: a population-wide cohort study using linked administrative records. Child Abuse & Neglect, 67, 322-337. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.03.012 [Abstract]
  • Maclean, M. J., Sims, S., Bower, C., Leonard, H., Stanley, F. J., & O'Donnell, M. (2017). Maltreatment risk among children with disabilities. Pediatrics, 139(4), e20161817. doi:10.1542/peds.2016-1817 [Abstract]
  • Myers, H., Segal, L., Lopez, D., Li, I. W., & Preen, D. B. (2017). Impact of family-friendly prison policies on health, justice and child protection outcomes for incarcerated mothers and their dependent children: a cohort study protocol. BMJ Open, 7(8). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016302 [Abstract]
  • Maclean, M. J., Sims, S., O'Donnell, M., & Gilbert, R. (2016). Out‐of‐home care versus in‐home care for children who have been maltreated: a systematic review of health and wellbeing outcomes. Child Abuse Review, 25(4), 251-272. doi:10.1002/car.2437 [Abstract]
  • Maclean, M. J., Taylor, C. L., & O’Donnell, M. (2016). Pre-existing adversity, level of child protection involvement, and school attendance predict educational outcomes in a longitudinal study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 51, 120-131. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.10.026 [Abstract]
  • O'Donnell, M., Maclean, M. J., Sims, S., Morgan, V. A., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F. J. (2015). Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: mental health diagnoses associated with increased risk. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 69(12), 1175-1183. doi:10.1136/jech-2014-205240 [Abstract]
  • Gilbert, R., Fluke, J., O'Donnell, M., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Brownell, M., Gulliver, P., . . . Sidebotham, P. (2012). Child maltreatment: variation in trends and policies in six developed countries. The Lancet, 379(9817), 758-772. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61087-8 [Abstract]
  • O'Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Jacoby, P., & Stanley, F. (2012). Western Australian emergency department presentations related to child maltreatment and intentional injury: population level study utilising linked health and child protection data. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 48(1), 57-65. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.2011.02189.x [Abstract]
  •  O'Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Leonard, H., Jacoby, P., Mathews, R., Patterson, Y., & Stanley, F. (2010). Rates and types of hospitalisations for children who have subsequent contact with the child protection system: a population based case-control study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(9), 784. [Abstract]
  • O’Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Leonard, H. M., Mathews, R. P., Patterson, Y. G., & Stanley, F. J. (2010). The use of cross-jurisdictional population data to investigate health indicators of child maltreatment. Medical Journal of Australia, 193(3), 142-145. [Abstract]
  • O’Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Leonard, H., Mathews, R., Patterson, Y., & Stanley, F. (2010). Monitoring child abuse and neglect at a population level: patterns of hospital admissions for maltreatment and assault. Child Abuse & Neglect, 34(11), 823-832. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.04.00 [Abstract]
  • O’Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Leonard, H., Jacoby, P., Mathews, R., Patterson, Y., & Stanley, F. (2010). Characteristics of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal children and families with substantiated child maltreatment: a population-based study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 39(3), 921-928. doi:10.1093/ije/dyq005 [Abstract]
  • O'Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Leonard, H., Hagan, R., Mathews, R., Patterson, Y., & Stanley, F. (2009). Increasing prevalence of neonatal withdrawal syndrome: population study of maternal factors and child protection involvement. Pediatrics, 123(4), e614. [Abstract]
  • O'Donnell, M., Scott, D., & Stanley, F. (2008). Child abuse and neglect — is it time for a public health approach? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 32(4), 325-330. doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00249.x [Abstract]

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Criminal justice

2019

  • Dowell, C. M., Mejia, G. C., Preen, D. B., & Segal, L. (2019). Low birth weight and maternal incarceration in pregnancy: A longitudinal linked data study of Western Australian infants. SSM - Population Health, 7, 100324. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.11.008 [Abstract]

Prior to 2019

  • Dowell, C. M., Mejia, G. C., Preen, D. B., & Segal, L. (2018). Maternal incarceration, child protection, and infant mortality: a descriptive study of infant children of women prisoners in Western Australia. Health and Justice, 6(2). doi:10.1186/s40352-018-0060-y [Abstract]

  • Jones, J., Wilson, M., Sullivan, E., AThe Kidsnson, L., Gilles, M., Simpson, P. L., . . . Butler, T. (2018). Australian Aboriginal women prisoners’ experiences of being a mother: a review. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 14(4), 221-231. doi:10.1108/IJPH-12-2017-0059 [Abstract]

  • Bell, M. F., Bayliss, D. M., Glauert, R., & Ohan, J. (2018). Using linked data to investigate developmental vulnerabilities in children of convicted parents. Developmental Psychology. doi:10.1037/dev0000521 [Abstract]

  • Wand, H., Simpson, M., Malacova, E., Schofield, P. W., Preen, D. B., Tate, R., & Butler, T. (2017). Individual- and population-level impacts of traumatic brain injury and maternal characteristics on subsequent offending behavior. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 33(3), 167-176. doi:10.1097/HTR.0000000000000326 [Abstract]

  • Myers, H., Segal, L., Lopez, D., Li, I. W., & Preen, D. B. (2017). Impact of family-friendly prison policies on health, justice and child protection outcomes for incarcerated mothers and their dependent children: a cohort study protocol. BMJ Open, 7(8). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016302 [Abstract]

  • Dowell, C. M., Preen, D. B., & Segal, L. (2017). Quantifying maternal incarceration: a whole‐population linked data study of Western Australian children born 1985–2011. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 41(2), 151-157. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12613 [Abstract]

  • Hafekost, K., Lawrence, D., O’Leary, C., Bower, C., Semmens, J., & Zubrick, S. R. (2017). Maternal alcohol use disorder and risk of child contact with the justice system in Western Australia: a population cohort record linkage study. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 41(8), 1452-1460. doi:10.1111/acer.13426 [Abstract]

  • 2014 Contact with the juvenile justice system in children treated with stimulant medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a population study Silva, D., Colvin, L., Glauert, R., & Bower, C.
  • 2013 Assessing gender and ethnic differences in developmental trajectories of offending Ferrante, A.
  • 2013 Assessing the influence of "standard" and "culturally specific" risk factors on the prevalence and frequency of offending: The case of Indigenous Australians Ferrante, A.
  • 2012 A whole-of-population study of the prevalence and patterns of criminal offending in people with schizophrenia and other mental illness Morgan, V., Morgan, F., Valuri, G., Ferrante, A., Castle, D., & Jablensky, A.
  • 2009 The use of data-linkage methods in criminal justice research: A commentary on progress, problems and future possibilities Ferrante A
  • 2009 Assessing the impact of time spent in custody and mortality on the estimation of recidivism Ferrante A, Loh N, Maller M

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Data linkage systems and methods

  • 2016 Data linkage in an established longitudinal cohort – The Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study Mountain, J.A., Nyaradi, A., Oddy, W., Glauert, R., de Klerk, N., Straker, L., & Stanley, F.
  • 2015 Identifying families most likely to have missing paternal details in birth registrations using linked data Sims, S., & O'Donnell, M.
  • 2014 The custodian administered research extract server: “improving the pipeline” in linked data delivery systems Eitelhuber, T., & Davis, G.
  • 2014 Western Australia unveils advances in linked data delivery systems Eitelhuber T., Davies, G., Rosman, D., & Glauert, R.
  • 2013 Privacy-preserving record linkage on large real world datasets Randall, S., Ferrante, A., Boyd, J., & Semmens, J.
  • 2013 An evaluation framework for comparing geocoding systems Goldberg, D., Ballard, M., Boyd, J., Mullan, N., Garfield, C., Rosman, D., Ferrante, A., & Semmens, J.
  • 2013 The effect of data cleaning on record linkage quality Randall, S., Boyd, J., Ferrante, A., & Semmens, J.
  • 2013 Setting the RECORD straight: developing a guideline for the REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected Data Langan, S., Benchimol, E. I., Guttmann, A., Moher, D., Petersen, I., Smeeth, L., Sorensen, H., Stanley, F. J., & Von Elm, E.
  • 2013 Privacy protectionism and health information: Is there any redress for harms to health? Allen, J., Holman, C., Meslin, E., & Stanley, F.
  • 2012 Data linkage infrastructure for cross-jurisdictional health-related research in Australia Boyd, J., Ferrante, A., O'Keefe, C., Bass, A. J., Randall, S., & Semmens, J.
  • 2012 A transparent and transportable methodology for evaluating data linkage software Ferrante, A., & Boyd, J.
  • 2011 Can joined-up data lead to joined-up thinking? The Western Australian Developmental Pathways Project Stanley, F., Glauert, G., McKenzie, A., & O’Donnell, M.

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Dental health

  • 2013 Dental admissions in children under two years - a total-population investigation Slack-Smith, L., Colvin, L., Leonard, H., Kilpatrick, N., Read, A., & Messer, L. B
  • 2011 Total population investigation of dental hospitalizations in indigenous children under five years in Western Australia using linked data Slack-Smith, L. M., Read, A. W., Colvin, L. J., Leonard, H., Kilpatrick, N., McAullay, D., & Messer, L. B.
  • 2009 Factors associated with dental admissions for children aged under 5 years in Western Australia Slack-Smith L, Colvin L, Leonard H, Kilpatrick N, Bower C, Brearley Messer L

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Diabetes

  • 2014 School performance in children with type 1 diabetes: a contemporary population-based study Cooper, M. N., McNamara, A., de Klerk, N. H., Davis, E. A., & Jones, T. W.
  • 2014 Clinical and demographic risk factors associated with mortality during early adulthood in a population-based cohort of childhood-onset Type 1 diabetes Cooper, M. N., de Klerk, N. H., Jones, T. W., & Davis, E. A.
  • 2011 Lifecourse childhood adiposity trajectories associated with adolescent insulin resistance Huang, R., De Klerk, N., Smith, A., Kendall, G., Landau, L., Mori, T., Newnham, J., Stanley, F., Oddy, W., Hands, B., & Beilin, L.

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Disability

2018

  • Abdullahi, I., Leonard, H., Cherian, S., Mutch, R., Glasson, E. J., de Klerk, N., & Downs, J. (2018). The risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities in children of immigrant and refugee parents: current knowledge and directions for future research. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 5(1), 29-42. doi:10.1007/s40489-017-0121-5 [Abstract]
  • Bourke, J., Wong, K., & Leonard, H. (2018). Validation of intellectual disability coding through hospital morbidity records using an intellectual disability population-based database in Western Australia. BMJ Open, 8, e019113. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019113 [Abstract]

Prior to 2018

  • Maclean, M. J., Sims, S., Bower, C., Leonard, H., Stanley, F. J., & O'Donnell, M. (2017). Maltreatment risk among children with disabilities. Pediatrics, 139(4), e20161817. doi:10.1542/peds.2016-1817 [Abstract]
  • 2013 Application of population-based linked data to the study of intellectual disability and autism Leonard, H., Glasson, E., Bebbington, A., Hammond, G., Croft, D., Pikora, T., Fairthorne, J. , O’Donnell, M., O’Leary, C., Hansen, M., Watson, L., Francis, R. W., Carter, K. W., McKenzie, A., Bower, C., Bourke, J., & Glauert, R.
  • 2013 Intellectual disability: population-based estimates of the proportion attributable to maternal alcohol use disorder during pregnancy O'Leary, C., Leonard, H., Bourke, J., D'Antoine, H., Bartu, A., & Bower, C.
  • 2013 Maternal conditions and perinatal characteristics associated with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability Langridge, A. T., Glasson, E. J., Nassar, N., Jacoby, P., Pennell, C., Hagan, R., Bourke, J., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F. J.
  • 2013 Hospital admissions in children with down syndrome: experience of a population-based cohort followed from birth Fitzgerald, P., Leonard, H., Pikora, T. J., Bourke, J., & Hammond, G.
  • 2013 Hospitalisation rates for children with intellectual disability or autism born in Western Australia 1983-1999: a population-based cohort study Bebbington ,A., Glasson, E., Bourke, J., de Klerk, N., & Leonard, H.
  • 2012 To Feel Belonged: the voices of children and youth with disabilities on the meaning of wellbeing Folley, K., Blackmore, M., Girdler, S., O’Donnell, M., Glauert, R., & Leonard, H.
  • 2011 Autism and intellectual disability are differentially related to sociodemographic background at birth Leonard, H., Glasson, E., Nassar, N., Whitehouse, A., Bebbington, A., Bourke, J., Jacoby, P., Dixon, G., Malacova, E., Bower, C., & Stanley, F.
  • 2008 Intellectual disability co-occurring with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illness: population-based study Morgan VA, Leonard H, Bourke J, Jablensky A
  • 2008 Relation between intrauterine growth and subsequent intellectual disability in a ten-year population cohort of children in Western Australia Leonard H, Nassar N, Bourke J, Blair E, Mulroy S, de Klerk N, Bower C
  • 2007 Co-occurrence of birth defects and intellectual disability Petterson B, Bourke J, Leonard H, Jacoby P, Bower C
  • 2006 Maternal health in pregnancy and intellectual disability in the offspring: a population-based study Leonard H, de Klerk N, Bourke J, Bower C
  • 2005 Hospitalisations from birth to 5 years in a population cohort of Western Australian children with intellectual disability Williams K, Leonard H, Tursan d'Espaignet E, Colvin L, Slack-Smith L, Stanley F
  • 2005 Association of sociodemographic characteristics of children with intellectual disability in Western Australia Leonard H, Petterson B, De Klerk N, Zubrick SR, Glasson E, Sanders R, Bower C
  • 2000 Survival of infants born with Down's syndrome: 1980-96 Leonard S, Bower C, Petterson B, Leonard H

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Economics

  • 2013 Neonatal outcomes after preterm birth by mothers' health insurance status at birth: a retrospective cohort study Einarsdottir, K., Haggar, F. A., Langridge, A. T., Gunnell, A. S., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F. J
  • 2012 The Australian Baby Bonus Maternity Payment and Birth Characteristics in Western Australia Einarsdóttir, K., Langridge, A., Hammond, G., Gunnell, A., Haggar, F., & Stanley, F.
  • 2012 The impact of monetary incentives on general fertility rates in Western Australia Langridge, A. T., Nassar, N., Li, J., Jacoby, P., & Stanley, F. J.
  • 2011 Variability in paediatric outcomes within wealthy countries Stanley, F., Langridge, A., & D’Antoine, H.

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Education

2018

  • Bell, M. F., Bayliss, D. M., Glauert, R., Harrison, A., & Ohan, J. L. (2018). Children of parents who have been hospitalised with psychiatric disorders are at risk of poor school readiness. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S2045796018000148 [Abstact]
  • Bell, M. F., Bayliss, D. M., Glauert, R., & Ohan, J. L. (2018). School readiness of maltreated children: associations of timing, type, and chronicity of maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 76, 426-439. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.12.001 [Abstract]

Prior to 2018

  • 2017 Relationship between out-of-home care placement history characteristics and educational achievement: A population level linked data study Maclean, M. J., Taylor, C. L., & O'Donnell, M.
  • 2017 School absence and its effect on school performance for children born with orofacial clefts Bell J., Raynes-Greenow C., Turner R., Bower C., Dodson A., Hancock K., & Nassar N.
  • Maclean, M. J., Taylor, C. L., & O’Donnell, M. (2016). Pre-existing adversity, level of child protection involvement, and school attendance predict educational outcomes in a longitudinal study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 51, 120-131. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.10.026 [Abstract]
  • 2016 Patterns of participation in year 9 academic testing and factors predicting absence on the day of test Wong J. W. Y., O'Donnell, M., Bayliss, D., Fletcher, J., & Glauert, R.
  • 2016 Chronic illness and developmental vulnerability at school entry Bell, M. F., Bayliss, D. M., Glauert, R., Harrison, A., & Ohan, J. L.
  • 2016 School performance for children with cleft lip and palate: a population-based study Bell, J. C., Raynes-Greenow, C., Turner, R., Bower, C., Dodson, A., W. Nicholls, W., & Nassar, N.
  • 2015 Good quality diet in the early years may have a positive effect on academic achievement Nyaradi, A., Li, J., Foster, J. K., Hickling, S., Jacques, A., O’Sullivan, T. A., & Oddy, W. H.
  • 2015 A Western dietary pattern is associated with poor academic performance in Australian adolescents Nyaradi, A., Li, J., Hickling, S., Foster, J. K., Jacques, A., Ambrosini,G. L., & Oddy, W. H.
  • 2015 Literacy and numeracy underachievement in boys and girls with ADHD Silva, D., Colvin, L., Glauert, R., Stanley, F., Srinivasjois, R., & Bower, C.
  • 2015 Pre-existing adversity, level of child protection involvement, and school attendance predict educational outcomes in a longitudinal study Maclean, M. J., Taylor, C. L., & O'Donnell, M.
  • 2014 School performance in children with type 1 diabetes: a contemporary population-based study Cooper, M. N., McNamara, A., de Klerk, N. H., Davis, E. A., & Jones, T. W.
  • 2008 Association of birth outcomes and maternal, school, and neighborhood characteristics with subsequent numeracy achievement Malacova E, Li J, Blair E, Leonard H, de Klerk N, Stanley F

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Family and domestic violence

2019

  • Orr, C., Fisher, C., Sims, S., Preen, D., Glauert, R., & O’Donnell, M. (2019). Hospitalisations for maternal assault are associated with increased risk of child protection involvement. Child Abuse & Neglect, 95, 104014. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.05.007 [Abstract] 

  • Orr, C., Preen, D., Fisher, C., Sims, S., & O’Donnell, M. (2019). Trends in Hospital Admissions for Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Mothers With Children Born From 1990 to 2009. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260519832905. doi:10.1177/0886260519832905 [Abstract]

Prior to 2019

  • Orr, C., Preen, D. B., Glauert, R., O'Donnell, M., Fisher, C., & Sims, S. (2018). Maternal assault admissions are associated with increased risk of child protection involvement. International Journal of Population Data Science, 3(4). doi:10.23889/ijpds.v3i4.772 [Abstract]

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Injury and self-harm

2017

  • Hu, N., Taylor, C. L., Li, J., & Glauert, R. A. (2017). The impact of child maltreatment on the risk of deliberate self-harm among adolescents: a population-wide cohort study using linked administrative records. Child Abuse & Neglect, 67, 322-337. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.03.012 [Abstract]

  • O’Donnell, M., Sims, S., Maclean, M. J., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Gilbert, R., & Stanley, F. J. (2017). Trends in alcohol-related injury admissions in adolescents in Western Australia and England: population-based cohort study. BMJ Open, 7(5). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014913

  • 2017 Influence of exposure to perinatal risk factors and parental mental health related hospital admission on adolescent deliberate self-harm risk Hu, N., Li, J., Glauert, R. A., & Taylor, C. L.
  • 2016 Risk factors for repetition of a deliberate self-harm episode within seven days in adolescents and young adults: A population-level record linkage study in Western Australia Hu, N., Glauert, R. A., Li, J., & Taylor, C. L.
  • 2013 Cross-country comparison of victimisation-related injury admission in children and adolescents in England and Western Australia Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Ward, A., O’Donnell, M., Li, L., Roposch, A., Stanley, F. , & Gilbert, R.
  • O'Donnell, M., Nassar, N., Jacoby, P., & Stanley, F. (2012). Western Australian emergency department presentations related to child maltreatment and intentional injury: population level study utilising linked health and child protection data. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 48(1), 57-65. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.2011.02189.x [Abstract]
  • 2010 Monitoring child abuse and neglect at a population level: patterns of hospital admissions for maltreatment and assault O'Donnell M, Nassar N, Leonard H, Mathews R, Patterson Y, Stanley F.

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Mental health

2018

  • Bell, M. F., Bayliss, D. M., Glauert, R., Harrison, A., & Ohan, J. L. (2018). Children of parents who have been hospitalised with psychiatric disorders are at risk of poor school readiness. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S2045796018000148 [Abstact]

Prior to 2018

  • 2017 Influence of exposure to perinatal risk factors and parental mental health related hospital admission on adolescent deliberate self-harm risk Hu, N., Li, J., Glauert, R. A., & Taylor, C. L.
  • O'Donnell, M., Maclean, M. J., Sims, S., Morgan, V. A., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F. J. (2015). Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: mental health diagnoses associated with increased risk. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 69(12), 1175-1183. doi:10.1136/jech-2014-205240 [Abstract]
  • Silva, D., Houghton, S., Hagemann, E., & Bower, C. (2015). Comorbidities of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: pregnancy risk factors and parent mental health. Community Mental Health Journal, 51(6), 738-745. doi:10.1007/s10597-014-9773-0 [Abstract]
  • 2015 Literacy and numeracy underachievement in boys and girls with ADHD Silva, D., Colvin, L., Glauert, R., Stanley, F., Srinivasjois, R., & Bower, C.
  • 2013 Are women with major depression in pregnancy identifiable in population health data? Colvin, L., Slack-Smith, L., Stanley, F., & Bower, C.
  • 2013 Trends in pre-existing mental health disorders among parents of infants born in Western Australia from 1990 to 2005 O'Donnell, M., Anderson, D., Morgan, V., Nassar, N., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F.
  • 2012 A whole-of-population study of the prevalence and patterns of criminal offending in people with schizophrenia and other mental illness Morgan, V., Morgan, F., Valuri, G., Ferrante, A., Castle, D., & Jablensky, A.
  • 2011 Prenatal stress and risk of behavioural morbidity from age 2 to 14 years: The influence of the number, type, and timing of stressful life events Robinson, M., Mattes, E., Oddy, W., Pennell, C., van Eekelen, A., McLean, N., Jacoby, P., Li, J., de Klerk, N., Zubrick, S., Stanley, F. J., & Newnham, J. P.
  • 2008 Intellectual disability co-occurring with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illness: population-based study Morgan VA, Leonard H, Bourke J, Jablensky A

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Out-of-home care

2018

  • Maclean, M. J., Taylor, C. L., & O'Donnell, M. (2018). Out-of-home care and the educational achievement, attendance, and suspensions of maltreated children: a propensity-matched study. The Journal of Pediatrics, 198, 287-293.e282. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.03.027 [Abstract]

2017

  • Maclean, M. J., Taylor, C. L., & O’Donnell, M. (2017). Relationship between out-of-home care placement history characteristics and educational achievement: a population level linked data study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 70, 146-159. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.05.013 [Abstract]

Prior to 2017

  • O’Donnell, M., Maclean, M., Sims, S., Brownell, M., Ekuma, O., & Gilbert, R. (2016). Entering out-of-home care during childhood: cumulative incidence study in Canada and Australia. Child Abuse & Neglect, 59, 78-87. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.07.011 [Abstract]

  • Maclean, M. J., Sims, S., O'Donnell, M., & Gilbert, R. (2016). Out-of-home care versus in-home care for children who have been maltreated: a systematic review of health and wellbeing outcomes. Child Abuse Review, 25(4), 251-272. doi:10.1002/car.2437 [Abstract]
  • Hughes, K., Bellis, M., Maclean, M., Wood, S., & Mikton, C. (2013). Effective interventions and programming. In D. Sethi, M. Bellis, K. Hughes, R. Gilbert, F. Mitis, & G. Galea (Eds.), European report on preventing child maltreatment. Copenhagen, Denmark: World Health Organization. Retrieved from http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/217018/European-Report-on-Preventing-Child-Maltreatment.pdf. [Full report (PDF)]
  • Maclean, M., O'Donnell, M., & Gilbert, R. (2013). Systematic review on out-of-home care. In D. Sethi, M. Bellis, K. Hughes, R. Gilbert, F. Mitis, & G. Galea (Eds.), European report on preventing child maltreatment. Copenhagen, Denmark: World Health Organization. Retrieved from http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/217018/European-Report-on-Preventing-Child-Maltreatment.pdf. [Full report (PDF)]

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Pregnancy and births 

2019

  • Dowell, C. M., Mejia, G. C., Preen, D. B., & Segal, L. (2019). Low birth weight and maternal incarceration in pregnancy: A longitudinal linked data study of Western Australian infants. SSM - Population Health, 7, 100324. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.11.008 [Abstract]

Prior to 2019

  • 2015 Neonatal drug withdrawal syndrome: cross-country comparison using hospital administrative data in England, the USA, Western Australia and Ontario, Canada Davies, H., Gilbert, R., Johnson, K., Petersen, I., Nazareth, I., O'Donnell, M., Guttmann, A., & Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A.
  • Silva, D., Houghton, S., Hagemann, E., & Bower, C. (2015). Comorbidities of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: pregnancy risk factors and parent mental health. Community Mental Health Journal, 51(6), 738-745. doi:10.1007/s10597-014-9773-0 [Abstract]
  • 2013 Are women with major depression in pregnancy identifiable in population health data? Colvin, L., Slack-Smith, L., Stanley, F., & Bower, C.
  • 2013 Assisted vaginal deliveries in mothers admitted as public or private patients in Western Australia Einarsdóttir, K., Haggar, F., Stock, S., Gunnell, A., & Stanley, F.
  • 2013 Role of public and private funding in the rising caesarean section rate: a cohort study Einarsdóttir, K., Haggar, F., Pereira, G., Leonard, H., de Klerk, N., Stanley, F. J., & Stock, S.
  • 2013 Off-label use of Ondansetron in pregnancy in Western Australia Colvin, L., Gill, A., Slack-Smith, L., Stanley, F. J. , & Bower, C.
  • 2013 Authors' reply: Changes in risk factors for preterm birth in Western Australia 1984-2006 Hammond, G., Langridge, A., Leonard, H., Hagan, R., Jacoby, P., Deklerk, N., et al.
  • 2013 Changes in risk factors for preterm birth in Western Australia 1984-2006 Hammond, G., Langridge, A., Leonard ,H., Hagan, R., Jacoby, P., DeKlerk, N., Pennell, C., & Stanley, F.
  • 2013 Neonatal outcomes after preterm birth by mothers' health insurance status at birth: a retrospective cohort study Einarsdottir, K., Haggar, F. A., Langridge, A. T., Gunnell, A. S., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F. J.
  • 2013 Neonatal complications in public and private patients: A retrospective cohort study Einarsdottir, K., Stock, S., Haggar, F., Hammond, G., Langridge, A. T., Preen, D. B., De Klerk, N., Leonard, H., & Stanley, F. J.
  • 2013 Intellectual disability: population-based estimates of the proportion attributable to maternal alcohol use disorder during pregnancy O'Leary, C., Leonard, H., Bourke, J., D'Antoine, H., Bartu, A., & Bower, C.
  • 2012 Pregnancy outcomes in women dispensed Ondansetron in pregnancy Colvin, L., Slack-Smith, L., Stanley, F. J., & Bower, C.
  • 2012 Early morbidity and mortality following in utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: A population-based study in Western Australia Colvin, L., Slack-Smith, L., Stanley, F., & Bower, C.
  • 2012 The Australian Baby Bonus Maternity Payment and Birth Characteristics in Western Australia Einarsdóttir, K., Langridge, A., Hammond, G., Gunnell, A., Haggar, F., & Stanley, F.
  • 2012 Heavy maternal alcohol consumption and cerebral palsy in the offspring O'Leary, C., Watson, L., D'Antoine, H., Stanley, F., & Bower, C.
  • 2012 The impact of monetary incentives on general fertility rates in Western Australia Langridge, A. T., Nassar, N., Li, J., Jacoby, P., & Stanley, F. J.
  • 2011 Dispensing patterns and pregnancy outcomes for women dispensed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pregnancy Colvin, L., Slack-Smith L., Stanley, F. J., & Bower, C.
  • 2011 Community-level socioeconomic inequalities in infants with poor fetal growth in Western Australia, 1984 to 2006 Langridge, A., Li, J., Nassar, N., & Stanley, F.
  • 2010 Social and racial inequalities in preterm births in Western Australia, 1984 to 2006 Langridge AT, Nassar N, Li J, Stanley FJ
  • 2009 Increasing prevalence of neonatal withdrawal syndrome: population study of maternal factors and child protection involvement O'Donnell M, Nassar N, Leonard H, Hagan R, Mathews R, Patterson Y, Stanley F
  • 2008 Association of birth outcomes and maternal, school, and neighborhood characteristics with subsequent numeracy achievement Malacova E, Li J, Blair E, Leonard H, de Klerk N, Stanley F
  • 2006 Maternal health in pregnancy and intellectual disability in the offspring: a population-based study Leonard H, de Klerk N, Bourke J, Bower C

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