This chapter assesses what global evidence tells us about the importance of early childhood education and development... ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2013
• January 2013

Children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have difficulty adapting to the school context and may therefore be more likely to be suspended. We examined the association between ACEs and suspensions using linked administrative data on children born in Western Australia from July 2003–June 2004. ...

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• 2021
• July 2021

The link between respiratory and vascular health is well documented in adult populations. Impaired lung function is consistently associated with thicker arteries and higher incidence of cardiovascular disease. However, there are limited data on this relationship in young children and the studies that exist have focussed on populations at high risk of cardiorespiratory morbidity. ...

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• 2021
• August 2021

This study examined associations between maltreatment and early developmental vulnerabilities in a population sample of 68,459 children ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2018
• September 2018

The associations between childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and several proxies of early stimulation of the immune system, that is, day-care center... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

This study demonstrates a pervasive effect of early life infections that require hospital admission on multiple aspects of early child development ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

This snapshot highlights that children in Northern Lao PDR are developing poorly, with disparities in child development across different ethnic groups and family backgrounds ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

We investigated whether childhood infection-related hospitalisation (IRH, a marker of severity) was associated with subsequent adult CVD hospitalisation. ...

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• 2015
• May 2015

Although adolescent dietary patterns tend to be of poor quality, it is unclear whether dietary patterns established in adolescence persist into adulthood. We examined trajectories across adolescence and early adulthood for 2 major dietary patterns and their associations with childhood and parental factors. Using data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine Study), intakes of 38 food groups were estimated at ages 14, 17, 20 and 22 y in 1414 participants using evaluated FFQs. ...

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• 2020
• November 2020

The 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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• 2013
• January 2013

The effect of breast-feeding on the development of allergic disease is uncertain ...

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• 2011
• June 2011

Research suggests that offspring of mothers who experience high levels of stress during pregnancy are more likely to have problems in neurobehavioral... ...

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• 2011
• January 2011