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Children's health
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Australian
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 Australian
Institute for Health and Welfare- Children and Youth - AIHW- These webpages contain statistics and information produced by AIHW
in the children and youth field. Includes links to access more information
about specific topics on children and youth. Includes online versions
of Australia's Welfare 2003 and Australia's Health 2004.
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- Australian
Institute of Family Studies: National Child Protection Clearinghouse
- The National Child Protection Clearinghouse is an information, advisory
and research unit focused on the prevention of child abuse and neglect
and associated family violence. It "is funded by the Australian
Government's Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and
Indigenous Affairs under the auspices of the Australian Council for
Children and Parenting as part of the government's response to the
problem of child abuse."
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- Centre
for Health Promotion
- Centre for Health Promotion, Women's and Children's Hospital, Children,
Youth and Women's Health Services. The website ia an initiative by
the Women's & Children's Hospital directed mainly to schools.
It offers brightly presented information on children's physical activity
and nutritional needs as well as links to important online resources.
There is also an online newsletter entitled "Virtually healthy: the
newsletter for schools".
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- Child
and Youth Health
- This is the award-winning site of a South Australian government-funded
initiative to provide the latest news on parenting, child and youth
health. It provides information on health issues and a directory of
Child and Family Health Centres across the state. Excellent links
to major South Australian health & welfare agencies.
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- Child
Health Surveillance an Screening : a critical review of the evidence,
- NHMRC 2002, Canberra, ACT. Child Health Surveillance and Screening:
A Critical Review of the Evidence was undertaken to provide a systematic
review of the available evidence for screening and surveillance, topic
by topic. The review considers children from birth to eighteen years
of age; it does not include prenatal screening activities.
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- Children
of Parents with a Mental Illness - COPMI
- "COPMI is a national project being undertaken by AICAFMHA with
funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
The pages on the AICAFMHA website provide background information on
the national project."
- Flinders
University, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health
- A site describing the paediatric and child protection services provided
by the Flinders Medical Centre. It also outlines the Centre's research
and education efforts.
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- Immunisation
Australian Program.
- An Australian, State and Territory Governments initiative. This
Internet site provides information on standard childhood immunisation.
It is based on accurate information available at this time and will
help to make informed decisions about immunisation. Australian Government,
Department of Health and Ageing.
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- Kidsafe
Child Accident prevention Foundation of Australia.
- Website of The Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia
which conducts injury prevention programs, media campaigns, provides
information, develops educational resources and initiates special
programs to raise awareness of child safety issues and injury prevention
throughout the country.
- National
Child Protection Clearinghouse
- The website of an organisation dedicated to the prevention of child
maltreatment. It includes online issue and discussion papers, a clearinghouse
newletter, statistics, bibliographies, curriculum and training materials,
information on prevention programmes in Australia, a directory of
counselling services, legislation and policy documents and excellent
links to organisations around the world.
- National
Investment For The early Years - NIFTeY
- "NIFTeY is the National Investment for the Early Years, which
emerged out of the National Initiative for the Early Years that arose
as an outcome of a meeting of academics, practitioners and government
officials held in Canberra on March 5 1999." Their mission and
objective is "to build a lifetime on the early years: ready for
school ready for life."
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- Parenting
SA
- Parenting SA is organisationally part of Child and Youth Health,
an independent State Government health unit. The site can be searched
under topic for Parent Easy Guides (PEGS) and other information in
pdf format - there are three categories; Aboriginal, General and Multicultural.
"The PEGs are considered the "flagship" for Parenting SA and represent
a valuable information source not only for parents and those caring
for children, but also professionals. They have been developed from
research in conjunction with appropriate experts and are widely used
throughout Australia".
- Public
Health Information and Development Unit - PHIDU
- "Established by the Australian Government Department of Health
and Ageing to assist in the development of public health data, data
systems and indicators. PHIDU is committed to the development of an
integrated health information system in Australia that can provide
information on a broad range of health determinants across the life
course."
- Social
health atlas of young South Australians, 2nd edn.2003.
- This online publication "brings together a wide range of information
about the health status and health service use of the children and
young people of South Australia. The Atlas seeks particularly to illustrate
linkages between socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, poorest health
status and greater use of services.
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- TVW
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
- This is the site of a reputable research institute based at the
University of Western Australia. It outlines current research projects
and the publications that have been produced as a result.
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- Women's
and Children's Hospital, Adelaide
- This site details the hospital's services and research and health
promotion activities and provides basic health information.
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- American
Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- This site discusses public health issues, provides basic facts for
families and statistics and policy statements for professionals, gives
information on clinical trials and research and has excellent links
to other resouces.
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- American
Academy of Pediatrics
- This site provides information on advocacy and research and contains
links to current news, fulltext information on topics such as immunisation,
and theorganisation's policy statements.
- Bright
Futures
- An excellent site produced by the National Center for Education
in Maternal and Child Health (U.S.). It differs from most sites by
taking a preventative and health promotion approach to children's
health. Specifically it describes the different developmental stages
of childhood and outlines the unique health requirements at each stage.
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- Child
and Family WebGuide
- "A resource for parents provided by Tufts University, Medford,
MA., which describes and evaluates sites that contain research-based
information about infants, children and teens."
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- Development
Behavioral Pediatrics Online - dbpeds.org
- The site is aimed at professionals interested in child development
and behaviour, especially in the medical setting.
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- Health
Canada
- "Health Canada is the Federal department responsible for helping
Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual
choices and circumstances." The site contains an A-Z list of
subject areas including pediatrics, pacifiers, child youth and family
health, family violence, fetal-alcohol syndrome to name a few.
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- KidsHealth.org
- An award-winning, multimedia site produced by the non-profit Nemours
Foundation in the United States. A reliable source of medical peer-reviewed
information on topics such as infections, behaviour, food and fitness.
Different sections are offered for parents, children and adolescents
but the site is of equal relevance to information-seeking health professionals.
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- Medscape
Pediatrics
- This site is a practice-oriented medical information and educational
tool for clinicians and health professionals. It offers access to
daily news items, practice guidelines, treatment updates, conference
summaries/schedules, patient resources, extensive links to paediatric
resources and an archive of fulltext articles from peer-reviewed medical
journals. (A one-off registration is required).
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- Ministry of Community and Social Services - Ontario
- "The goal of the Ministry of Community and Social Services is
to build thriving and inclusive communities sustained by the economic
and civic contributions of all Ontarians. The ministry’s mission
is to build resilience and remove obstacles that impede opportunity
and participation in community life. It does this through policy development
and program support for a broad range of services aimed at supporting
Ontario’s most vulnerable citizens."
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- National
Institute of Child Health & Human Development
- This organisation, one of the National Institutes of Health in the
U.S., has produced an informative website providing the researcher with
latest news releases and media information, an online clearinghouse
of fulltext publications, information on national campaigns such as
the SIDS "back to sleep" campaign and extensive detail on current clinical
trials and epidemiological, statistical and prevention research.
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