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Data Resource Profile: The South Australian Well-being and Engagement Collection (WEC)Mental health and well-being during childhood and adolescence have been shown to impact on health, educational attainment and employment in adulthood.1–3 Although health and education systems worldwide have long recognized the importance of promoting student well-being,4–6 population-wide monitoring of well-being remains uncommon.
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Overcoming challenges in measuring early childhood development across culturesThese challenges in measuring early childhood development are exacerbated when making comparisons across cultures
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Early disease surveillance in young children with cystic fibrosis: A qualitative analysis of parent experiencesSensitive measures of early lung disease are being integrated into therapeutic trials and clinical practice in cystic fibrosis (CF). The impact of early disease surveillance (EDS) using these novel and often intensive techniques on young children and their families is not well researched.
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Early developmental risk for subsequent childhood mental disorders in an Australian population cohortWe examined associations between developmental vulnerability profiles determined at the age of 5 years and subsequent childhood mental illness between ages 6 and 13 years in an Australian population cohort.
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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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Evaluation of the Learning+ Pilot ProgramYasmin Adrienne Harman-Smith Gregory YHS adrienne.gregory@telethonkids.org.au BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD BSocSci, MPhil Head, Early Years Systems
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Early Years Strategic Priority – Scoping and Mapping of the South Australian Early Years SystemYasmin Harman-Smith YHS BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD Head, Early Years Systems Evidence; Head, Tenders Support Unit Yasmin.harman-smith@
The The Kids team have an important role in the new Life Course Centre developing solutions for vulnerable children and their families to ensure their journey across the life course is the best it can be.
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Clustering of Wellbeing, Engagement and Academic Outcomes in Australian Primary SchoolsThe mental health and wellbeing of young people has important consequences for students and society. Schools are a logical environment for management and early intervention of wellbeing, mental health and engagement with school. Interventions aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing in education systems requires knowledge of how wellbeing is clustered at a school level. Cluster-randomised trials, and regression analyses of such data also require knowledge of clustering.
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Late talkers and later language outcomes: Predicting the different language trajectoriesThe aim of the current study was to investigate the risk factors present at 2 years for children who showed language difficulties that persisted