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Indigenous well-being in four countries

Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand consistently place near the top of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index...

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Common mental disorders: missed opportunity for smoking prevention and cessation

Common mental disorders: missed opportunity for smoking prevention and cessation

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Adolescent dietary patterns are associated with lifestyle and family psychosocial factors

Few studies have examined the dietary patterns of adolescents and the social and environmental factors that may affect them during this life stage.

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Barriers to Parent–Child Book Reading in Early Childhood

Parent–child book reading interventions alone are unlikely to meet needs of children and families for whom the absence of reading is psychosocial risk factor

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Suicidal behaviours: Prevalence estimates from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

Mental disorders should be a leading intervention point for suicide prevention both in the primary health sector and in the mental health sector specifically

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Self-harm: Prevalence estimates from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

The demonstrated higher risks in young people for continued harm or possible death support the need for ongoing initiatives to reduce self-harm

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Service use by Australian children for emotional and behavioural problems: Findings from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

The proportion of children and adolescents in Australia with mental disorders who used services for emotional and behavioural problems

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Adolescent bystanders' perspectives of aggression in the online versus school environments

Researchers' understanding of bystanders' perspectives in the cyber-environment fails to take young people's perceptions into account and remains imperfect.

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Does self-efficacy mediate the association between socioeconomic background and emotional symptoms among schoolchildren?

Socioeconomic inequality in emotional symptoms exists. This inequality is partly explained by socioeconomic inequality in self-efficacy

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School policies on bullying and cyberbullying: perspectives across three Australian states

The perspectives of professionals involved in bullying and cyberbullying policy construction, across three different Australian states