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Population Perspectives on Nurturing Relational Health from Early Life: A Systematic Review Series

This paper provides the conceptual framework for a new review series that bring together the global literature on population approaches to nurturing relational health across the first three years of life. Early relational health is defined as ‘the everyday interactions that happen between children and their carers across the many settings in which they live and grow.

Giving Voice to Rural and Regional Boys and Young Men and Supporting Parents to Prevent Tech-Based Abuse of Girls and Young Women

This project addresses the growing issue of technology-facilitated abuse against women and girls, particularly in regional Western Australian communities where risks are heightened, and access to support is limited.

Measuring Severity of Mental Disorders with the Young Minds Matter: Parent/Carer-Reported Impact Items

This document describes the calibration of the parent/carer reported impact items developed for use in the Second Australian Child & Adolescent Survey of...

Influence of maternal and infant technology use and other family factors on infant development

Steve Desiree Zubrick Silva FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow Co-Director, ORIGINS 08 6319 1409

Maternal Alcohol-Use Disorder and Child Outcomes

The effects of maternal alcohol-use disorder are experienced by the majority of exposed children rather than a vulnerable subgroup of this population

‘Stranger danger’, ‘abduction risks’ and ‘fear’: Media coverage of children's independent mobility and parental attitudes

The media plays a powerful role in shaping health-related attitudes and behaviours. We investigated media reports about children's independent mobility (CIM) and associations with parental attitudes towards CIM. CIM-related media reports (newspaper, online, television) during a 3-month period were extracted from two databases.

Racial discrimination and allostatic load among First Nations Australians: a nationally representative cross-sectional study

Increased allostatic load is linked with racial discrimination exposure, providing a mechanism for the biological embedding of racism as a psychosocial stressor. We undertook an examination of how racial discrimination interacts with socioecological, environmental, and health conditions to affect multisystem dysregulation in a First Nations population.

Social Ventures Australia Evidence Summaries

A series of 12 Australasian Research Summaries were generated by CoLab for the Evidence for Learning website in partnership with Edith Cowan University and Fraser Mustard Centre.

CFC Report

The Tasmanian Government has made a significant commitment in recent years to ensure children have the best possible start in life.

Bright Tomorrows Start Today (Parent App)

The Bright Tomorrows app developed at The Kids Research Institute Australia aims to assist parents of children aged 0-5 years to support their child to develop the building blocks of several essential life skills.