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These findings could inform policy making to reduce inequities by assisting in policy and service delivery design targeted to community needs.
Our analysis shows that early and late intervention to support household income have equal importance with regards to significance of impact.
Experimental studies show a substantial contribution of early life environment to obesity risk through epigenetic processes.
This study calls for the early identification of children who are vulnerable to maltreatment, the better identification of the duration and severity of maltreatment experiences, and the provision of continued care and support, to reduce the child's deliberate self harm risk in adolescence.
The community (or neighbourhood) is seen as a potential point of intervention for improving early childhood development outcomes through place-based approaches targeting all children. Yet there are insufficient robust data to guide policy and practice. Developing community factors for early childhood development is one way to facilitate more informed, evidence-based community action. This paper discusses the methodological learnings from the Kids in Communities Study, an Australian investigation into community-level factors important for early childhood development, including some of the challenges and innovations associated with the measurement and development of indicators.
The aim of this study is to examine whether anaemia of pregnancy is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes and with children's developmental vulnerability.
This paper describes a teacher-completed measurement of child development status applied in seven communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and in three...
Children who enter school with limited proficiency in the language of instruction face a range of challenges in negotiating this new context, yet limited...
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the domains of the 48-item EDI and the invariance of the measurement models of the domains of the...
Here we summarise some recent research using the AEDI data and show how the Fraser Mustard Centre is using such research to help inform policy-makers.