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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
The realisation of human potential for development requires age-specific investment throughout the 8000 days of childhood and adolescence.
Head, Early Years Systems Evidence
Early child development may have important consequences for inequalities in health and well-being. This paper explores population level patterns of child...
There is an increasing support from international organizations and the research community for stepping beyond infant or child mortality as the most common...
Inequalities in child healthy development: some challenges for effective implementation
This paper presents the study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a school based program developed to prevent teenage
Government early intervention services for children with intellectual disability (ID) in Western Australia have adopted the model of family-centred care.
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.
Energy drinks (EDs) claim to boost mental performance, however, few studies have examined the prospective effects of EDs on mental health. This study examined longitudinal associations between ED use and mental health symptoms in young adults aged 20 years over a 2-year period.