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Influence of the day care, home and neighbourhood environment on young children's physical activity and health: protocol for the PLAYCE observational study

The PLAYCE study will empirically investigate the relative and cumulative influence of the day care, and home environment on preschoolers’ physical activity

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Family structure and childhood mental disorders: new findings from Australia

This report provides new evidence of the relationships between family structure and childhood mental disorders in an under-researched context, Australia

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Energy drink consumption among young Australian adults: Associations with alcohol and illicit drug use

Australian energy drink users tend to have heavier alcohol consumption patterns be a cigarette smoker and use illicit drugs relative to non-users.

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Food sources of saturated fat and the association with mortality: A meta-analysis

There is an ongoing need for improvement in assessment tools and methods that investigate food sources of saturated fat and mortality to inform dietary...

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The effect of the social and physical environment on children's independent mobility to neighborhood destinations

Relationships between context-specific measures of the physical and social environment and children's independent mobility to neighborhood destination types...

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The influence of the neighborhood physical environment on early child health and development: A review and call for research

This review examines evidence of the association between the neighborhood built environment, green spaces and outdoor home area, and early (0-7 years) child...

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'If I Wanted to Have More Opportunities and Go to a Better School, I Just Had to Get Used to It’

The experiences of 32 male Aboriginal students from regional and remote towns and communities while they attended a metropolitan boarding school...

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Why do psychiatric patients have higher cancer mortality rates when cancer incidence is the same or lower?

People with mental illness are no more likely than the general population to develop cancer but more likely to die of it

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Relationships between Psychosocial Resilience and Physical Health Status of Western Australian Urban Aboriginal Youth

The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which factors previously documented as buffering the impact of high-risk family environments on...

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Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

The new diagnostic category of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) was introduced in DSM-5