Reports and Findings
Research
Neural tube defects in Australia and food fortification with folic acidPromotion of periconceptional folic acid supplement use began in Australia following publication of randomised trials showing effectiveness.
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Maternal Attachment Status, Mother-Child Emotion Talk, Emotion Understanding, and Child Conduct ProblemsThe present study investigated the relations among maternal attachment status, mother-child emotion talk, child emotion understanding, and conduct problems...
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How the first nine months shape the rest of our livesThe field of the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) focuses on prenatal influences as a crucial point in development.
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Gender, Culture and Intervention: Exploring Differences between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Children's Responses to an Early Intervention ProgrammeEvaluation of a group parenting programme in the Northern Territory of Australia showed significant differences in benefits for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal...
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Parent–child book reading across early childhood and child vocabulary in the early school yearsThe current study investigated the extent to which low levels of joint attention in infancy and parent-child book reading across early childhood increase the...
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Women’s Views of their Maternity Services ExperienceThe following sections of this report result from a project undertaken to develop a theoretically-framed survey tool for use in monitoring and evaluating...
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Transforming growth factor-Beta in milkFindings suggest that TGF-Beta in milk may influence the development of immunological outcomes in offspring.
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Female Empowerment as a Core Driver of Democratic Development: A Dynamic Panel Model from 1980 to 2005Investigated the causal effects of female empowerment on democratic development for 97 countries from 1980 to 2005.
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Weaving the narratives of relationship in community participatory researchThe Looking Forward Project is the story of our work with the Nyoongar community working together with mental health and drug and alcohol service providers...
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Echoes of disadvantage across generations? The influence of unemployment and separation of grandparents on their grandchildrenThis is a rare examination of joblessness over 3 succeeding generations and its onward effects upon children, and is one of the few in the research literature.