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Reports and Findings

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Emerging issues in the Pacific Basin

This review provides a snapshot of some key environmental health issues that will provide ongoing challenges for the Pacific Basin region in the coming decades

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Identification and genetic determination of an early life risk disposition for depressive disorder:

Progress in psychiatric genetics has been slow despite evidence of high heritability for most mental disorders

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Breastfeeding duration and academic achievement at ten years

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between duration of breastfeeding and educational outcomes.

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Prenatal stress and risk of behavioral morbidity from age 2 to 14 years:

The maternal experience of stressful events during pregnancy has been associated with a number of adverse consequences for behavioral development offspring...

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Improving epinephrine responses in hypoglycemia unawareness with real-time continuous glucose

The objective of this study was to determine whether real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) with preset alarms at specific glucose levels would prove...

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Indigenous Australian Health and Culture: An Introduction for Nursing and Midwifery Students

Here we map the impact of colonization on the lives of Aboriginal women, their health and wellbeing

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Children's language development 0-9 years. In Growing up in Australia:

Language development is one of the most important developmental accomplishments of early childhood and is the foundation for literacy, educational...

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Research as intervention: Engaging silenced voices

The emergence of Indigenous researchers into the public health research sector presents a challenge to what have traditionally been Western-based research...

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Duration of breast-feeding and language ability to middle childhood

There is controversy over whether increased breast-feeding duration has long-term benefits for language development.

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Environmental Factors in Children's Asthma and Respiratory Effects

Childhood asthma is a condition characterized by airflow obstruction that varies in time spontaneously, in response to various environmental stimuli...