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The early years are critical for lifelong wellbeing, with transition to formal school a key period for development. For Indigenous children, this transition provides opportunities to build on cultural strengths and belonging. However, many children face systemic barriers that impact their transition experiences, highlighting a need for culturally safe programs that support Indigenous families during this significant time.
Although essential for overall health and wellbeing, little is known about skin health in urban-living Australian Aboriginal children. This co-designed, research-service project aimed to describe skin health and document skin disease frequency in urban-living Aboriginal children and young people in Western Australia and investigate housing associations for skin infections.
This study highlights a range of unique profiles that can be used for improving the early development of young Aboriginal children
Apgar score, birth weight, sex, socioeconomic status, and maternal ethnicity, in addition to gestational age, have pronounced impacts on disability-free survival.
Mothers that are underweight prior to or in early pregnancy are at a moderately increased risk of placental abruption
This study aimed to examine the pattern of stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate disparities over time in Western Australia
We describe the application of a participatory action research methodology that is grounded in Aboriginal worldviews
Many of the mental health issues that women develop earlier in life are chronic at the time of conception, during pregnancy and at birth
This paper sets out the methodological and theoretical considerations which framed how the Birthing on Noongar Boodjar project was conducted
Relatively disadvantaged children might benefit more from attending childcare, as indicated by the positive estimated effects found for those who never attended childcare