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Data on Western Australian children’s health, learning, development and social characteristics will be mapped using geospatial technology so that community leaders and service providers can identify the priority issues for their children.

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Investigators: Alanna Sincovich Project description: The Pacific Early Age Readiness and Learning (PEARL) Programme, implemented by the World Bank,

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We have all heard of the phrase ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ but unfortunately in contemporary western society that ‘village’ can be hard to find.

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With the school year now well underway, it’s not uncommon for kids to start feeling the stress of assignments, homework and extracurricular activities.

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Australia’s first comprehensive research centre focused on mental health from birth to 25 years has been launched today in Perth.

The WAACHS regional profiles look at all four volumes of results across the ATSIC regions of Western Australia.

The social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children and young people

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Given the severe risks to the fetus from heavy prenatal alcohol exposure, assessment and recording of alcohol use should be routinely undertaken in maternity...

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There are strong socioeconomic and psychosocial gradients in both current smoking and smoking cessation.

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These data suggest that the link between maternal hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and child behavioral development begins in the first year of life.