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Estimated Therapy Costs and Downstream Cost Consequences of iBASIS-Video Interaction to Promote Positive Parenting Intervention vs Usual Care Among Children Displaying Early Behavioral Signs of Autism in AustraliaThe growing global prevalence of autism spectrum disorder is associated with increasing costs for support services. Ascertaining the effects of a successful preemptive intervention for infants showing early behavioral signs of autism on human services budgets is highly policy relevant.
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The association between otitis media in early childhood with later behaviour and attention problems: A longitudinal pregnancy cohortThe present study aims to investigate the association between an early history of recurrent otitis media (OM) with or without ventilation tube insertion and later behavioural problems in childhood and adolescence.
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Content validation of the Quality of Life Inventory—DisabilitySatisfactory content validity is reported, where ongoing consumer feedback shaped the dataset from which the final items were selected
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Migration and work in postwar Australia: mortality profile comparisons between Australian and Italian workers exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom330,000 Italians arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1966, many on assisted passage schemes where the worker agreed to a 2 year unskilled employment contract.
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Cancer incidence in the Western Australian mining industryWorking underground emerged as a significant determinant of lung cancer risk in our contemporary mining cohort
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Perinatal Risk Factors Associated With Gastroenteritis Hospitalizations in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Children in Western Australia (2000-2012)Given the beneficial effect of infant rotavirus vaccination efforts should be taken to optimize rotavirus vaccine coverage in those at highest risk
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A Population-Based Matched-Sibling Analysis Estimating the Associations Between First Interpregnancy Interval and Birth OutcomesInterpregnancy intervals of <6 months were associated with increased odds of preterm birth in second-born infants
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Haptic Exploratory Procedures of Children and Youth with and without Cerebral PalsyChildren with cerebral palsy performed similar haptic exploratory procedures as their typical development peers
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Using record linkage to validate notification and laboratory data for a more accurate assessment of notifiable infectious diseasesStudies investigating pathogen-specific infectious disease would benefit from using multiple data sources.
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Using record linkage to examine testing patterns for respiratory viruses among children born in Western AustraliaUsing linked data, we describe changes in respiratory virus testing among children born in Western Australia in 1996-2012