Reports and Findings
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Local Housing Characteristics Associated with Early Childhood Development Outcomes in Australian Disadvantaged CommunitiesAccess to safe, secure, and stable housing is a well-known social determinant of health
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The evolution of local food environments within established neighbourhoods and new developments in Perth, Western AustraliaPeople living in new developments, and low SES areas of Perth, may be disadvantaged with poorer access to healthy food and greater exposure to unhealthy food outlets
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Mandatory vaccination and no fault vaccine injury compensation schemes: An identification of country-level policiesCountries that mandate childhood vaccination without providing no fault compensation schemes could be seen as abrogating the social contract
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Geo-visual integration of health outcomes and risk factors using excess risk and conditioned choropleth mapsGhana remains a malaria hyperendemic region with district-level spatial heterogeneity
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B Part of It School Leaver protocol: an observational study to assess the impact of a meningococcal serogroup B vaccine programme on carriage of Neisseria meningitidisThis study will assess the impact of MenB vaccine (4CMenB) on carriage prevalence in school leavers in South Australia
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Pregnancy Induces a Steady-State Shift in Alveolar Macrophage M1/M2 Phenotype That Is Associated With a Heightened Severity of Influenza Virus InfectionPregnancy is associated with an alternatively activated phenotype of alveolar macrophage before infection
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Indigenous compared with non-Indigenous Australian patients at entry to specialist palliative care: Cross-sectional findings from a multi-jurisdictional datasetIndigenous patients are substantially underrepresented in care by services participating in the nationwide specialist palliative care
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Gaps in Current Autism Research: The Thoughts of the Autism Research Editorial Board and Associate EditorsMini‐commentaries on what they considered to be the current gaps in research on autism spectrum disorder
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Intraseason decline in influenza vaccine effectiveness during the 2016 southern hemisphere influenza season: A test-negative design study and phylogenetic assessmentOverall, the 2016 influenza vaccine showed good protection against laboratory-confirmed infection among general practice patients
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Impact of influenza on hospitalization rates in children with a range of chronic lung diseasesThis large population-based study suggests a significant healthcare burden associated with influenza in children with a range of chronic lung diseases