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Time spent in different types of childcare and children's development at school entry: an Australian longitudinal studyCompared with children who did not attend any type of childcare, children in centre-based care had higher parent-reported and teacher-reported externalising...
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Elucidation of pathways driving asthma pathogenesis: Development of a systems-level analytic strategyWhereas asthma was rare in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the marked increase in its incidence and prevalence since the 1960s points to substantial gene ×...
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Making mapping matter: a case study for short project international partnerships by global public health studentsThis paper describes a ten-day sanitation mapping project in Mumbai, India and explores the broader implications for global public health student electives.
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Does walkable neighbourhood design influence the association between objective crime and walking?This study examined associations between objective crime and walking, controlling for the characteristics of walkable neighbourhoods.
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Reply to Farmakiotis et al:Typhoid fever in an inner city hospital: a 5-year retrospective review.This paper comments on the difficulty diagnosing typhoid and other infections causing severe diarrhoea, especially in regions where it is a common problem...
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AutismCharacterised by varying degrees of difficulties in communication skills and social abilities, one in every 100 individuals will have a diagnosis of an autism spectrum condition. While autism is known to run in families, the exact causes remain unknown.
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Four BrightSpark Fellowships awarded to early-career researchers at The KidsCongratulations to four outstanding early-career researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia, who have been awarded BrightSpark Foundation fellowships and project funding for 2026.
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Rapidly assembled advisory group to offer community take on COVID-19 researchThe speed with which research projects on the coronavirus have been put together has consumer advocates concerned that a vital voice will be missing – that of the community.
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Community advocate jumps on board with new COVID-19 advisory groupLike many of us, consumer and community advocate Catherine Hughes is worried about the impact of COVID-19. So she joined Australia’s first COVID-19 consumer reference group to be a voice for the community.
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New meningococcal strains bring increased risk in WAA new study has confirmed the changing pattern of meningococcal disease in Western Australia.