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Does Child Care in the First Year of Life Pose a Risk for Concurrent and Future Ear Infections?The longitudinal analyses found no evidence of increased (or decreased) long-term risk of ear infections in subsequent waves associated with attending a child care centre
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Measuring early childhood development in multiple contexts: the internal factor structure and reliability of the early Human Capability Index in seven countriesFindings support the aims of the early Human Capability Index in being adaptable and applicable for use within a range of low and middle income countries
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Investing in School Readiness : An Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of Early Childhood Education Pathways in Rural IndonesiaThis paper presents evidence on the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia
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Lao PDR. Early childhood education project Snapshot one: project background and baseline data demographicsThis snapshot describes demographic information of the 7,520 children in the baseline sample, including where and how they live.
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Exploring change in the Australian version of the Early Development InstrumentCalculating a critical difference for the percentage of children who are “at risk” and “on track” in addition to the children who are developmentally “vulnerable”
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What factors contribute to positive early childhood health and development in Australian Aboriginal children? Protocol for a population-based cohort studyEmpirical evidence identifying the key drivers of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and supportive features of local communities...
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The impact of maternal gestational stress on motor development in late childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal studyThe purpose of this article is to investigate whether the number and timing of stressors experienced during pregnancy impacted longterm motor development at...
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Investigation of the Cross-National Equivalence of a Measurement of Early Child DevelopmentThis research paper reports on the results of investigating measurement invariance of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) in two South-Asian countries.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the Play Active policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: a pragmatic cluster randomised trial protocolDaily physical activity is critical during the early years of life for facilitating children's health and development. A large proportion of preschool children do not achieve the recommended 3 h of daily physical activity. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services are a key setting to intervene to increase physical activity. There is a significant need for ECEC specific physical activity policy, including clearer guidelines on the amount of physical activity children should do during care, and strategies for implementation of these guidelines.
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Status epilepticus following vaccination in children aged ≤24 months: A five-year retrospective observational studyStatus epilepticus is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. While vaccine-proximate status epilepticus (VP-SE) has rarely been associated with cases of Dravet syndrome, it is not known whether VP-SE differs clinically from non-vaccine proximate status epilepticus (NVP-SE).