“Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over recent decades, today’s children face an uncertain future. Climate change, ecological degradation, migrating p... Read more
Alessandro Demaio addressed the National Press Club on Friday, alongside Karen Carey (former chair of the Consumers Health Forum) and Stephen Duckett (head of the Health Program at the Gratt... Read more
An interesting article from Architect and academic Kieren Wong, published last month in the Conversation, lamented the lack of enforceable, contemporaneous, evidence-based standards for the... Read more
With more than half of all lifelong mental health problems beginning before 14 years of age and the risks manifesting younger still, investing in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life... Read more
With a month to go in Australia’s divisive marriage equality campaign and several million ballots still at large, we may see the rhetoric ratchet up in a bid to chase diminishing retur... Read more
The first 1000 days is the name of a global movement that recognises the importance of the period between conception and a child’s 2nd birthday as a unique window of opportunity to shape hea... Read more
Karleen Gribble and Julie Smith write: Alongside this week’s announcement of a free trade deal between China and Australia came reports of Gina Rinehart’s investment in a Queensland dairy op... Read more
Dr Gavin Hazel – Program Manager, Child, Youth and Wellbeing Program and Jaelea Skehan – Director, from the Hunter Institute of Mental Health write: There is a convergence of professio... Read more
Many thanks to Libby Salmon BVSc, MVCS, Visiting Fellow, ACERH ANU, Julie Smith, PhD. B. Econs (Hons)/B.A and Joy Heads OAM, Midwife, MHPEd, IBCLC®, FILCA for this contribution to the discus... Read more
What are “placed-based” approaches to improving health? What is “social climate change”? And why might these concepts matter for the health and wellbeing of children... Read more
