... comprehensive survey ever taken of Australian children's diet and activity habits has revealed a picture of a generation where some children are eating a variety of healthy foods and are generally ...
... behavioural and learning difficulties. Mr Terrill said clinical research showed that up to 20 percent of Australian children have symptoms of sleep problems and there were very ...
... August Australian Eastern Standard Time) The study investigated the number skills of children from two ... Professor Reeve says the study shows Indigenous Australian children have very strong basic quantity ...
... protection notifications and children being taken into care – doubling in the past decade. Director of the Australian Centre ... don't mix', given that one in eight Australian children now lives in a household with at least ...
Many aspects of Australia's children's health has improved over the last decade, however, indigenous children are still twice as likely to die before the age of 20.
While some Australian children exercise and eat well, many are swapping vegetables for junk food and risking their health through inactivity, a nationwide study has revealed.
... Centre for Asthma Monitoring, said the prevalence of asthma in Australian children is plateauing, if not declining. 'In the long run ... the known adverse effects. An estimated 11% of Australian children with asthma live in homes where ...
Thousands of Australian children under the age of 16 suffer juvenile arthritis, which often persists into adulthood, a new report has found.
One thousand Australian children develop Type 1 diabetes each year, one of the highest rates in the world, a study has revealed.
Australian children are ahead of the game when it comes to fighting climate change, writes Arron Wood.
... adults. A new study of Australian preschoolers and Kalahari Bushman children finds that a particular kind ... first and figure out how it worked. This was just as true for Bushman children as for the Australian children. But aren't ...
... in the UK. He says at least 11 Australian children have been accidentally strangled by blind or curtain cords ... from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents who said "one or two children die each year in the UK in this way ...
... significant change in the kinds of fruit eaten by the children, but this was probably because they were already eating more fruit ... of the study. According to Australia's last children's nutrition survey, Australian children are eating too much ...
... of a 20-year follow up of 2,188 Australians who participated in a national childhood health and fitness ... obesity levels in 1985 Australian children were also not as extreme as today's children, the study participants were exposed ...
... issue of the journal Computers & Education. The study examined the computer-mouse skills of 221 Australian children between the ages of 5 and 10 years ...
