The developmental origins of health and disease: adolescence as a critical lifecourse period to break the transgenerational cycle of NCDs—a narrative review

M Tohi, JL Bay, S Tu'akoi, MH Vickers - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease,
represent a significant and growing global health burden. To date, a primary focus has been …

Child protection in Australia and New Zealand: an overview of systems

J Cashmore, N Taylor - Oxford Handbook of Child Protection …, 2023 - books.google.com
This chapter delivers an overview of child protection services in Australia and New Zealand.
Both nations' main concern primarily revolves around numerous reports of children at risk …

Tender Shoots: Effects of a Preschool Shared Book Reading Preventive Intervention on Parent–Child Reading and Parents' Involvement in the First Year of School

S Timperley, E Schaughency, J Riordan, J Carroll… - School Mental …, 2022 - Springer
Parent–child interactive shared reading can benefit young children's language and
emergent literacy skills; however, studies of programs to enhance shared reading often do …

Home modifications to prevent home fall injuries in houses with Māori occupants (MHIPI): a randomised controlled trial

MD Keall, H Tupara, N Pierse, M Wilkie… - The Lancet Public …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background As with many Indigenous populations internationally, Māori in New
Zealand suffer health inequity. We aimed to assess the rate of fall injuries at home with and …

[HTML][HTML] Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning

A Bird, E Reese, E Schaughency, K Waldie… - Early Childhood …, 2024 - Elsevier
The foundational skills that children begin formal schooling with are subject to persistent
inequities, and can have long-term academic, occupational and health consequences. Early …

How universal are universal preschool health checks? An observational study using routine data from New Zealand's B4 School Check

S Gibb, B Milne, N Shackleton, BJ Taylor, R Audas - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives We aimed to estimate how many children were attending a universal preschool
health screen and to identify characteristics associated with non-participation. Design …

Maternal depressive symptoms and child language development: Exploring potential pathways through observed and self-reported mother-child verbal interactions

A Bird, E Reese, K Salmon, K Waldie… - Development and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Maternal depressive symptoms (MDS) in the postnatal period may impact children's later
development through poorer quality parent-child interactions. The current study tested a …

Development of an index of socio-emotional competence for preschool children in the growing up in New Zealand study

S Ahmad, ER Peterson, KE Waldie… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Growing international recognition of the importance of socio-emotional competence has led
to calls to understand the prevalence and development of such competence in young …

Residential mobility and socioemotional and behavioural difficulties in a preschool population cohort of New Zealand children

K Nathan, O Robertson, PA Carr… - J Epidemiol …, 2019 - jech.bmj.com
Background Findings regarding early residential mobility and increased risk for
socioemotional and behavioural (SEB) difficulties in preschool children are mixed, with …

Residential mobility for a national cohort of New Zealand-born children by area socioeconomic deprivation level and ethnic group

O Robertson, K Nathan, P Howden-Chapman… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The aims of this study are to describe area deprivation levels and changes that
occur during residential moves involving New Zealand children from birth to their fourth …