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Paediatric quality of life instruments: a review of the impact of the conceptual framework on outcomesElise Davis
School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 48:311-8. 2006..The impact of the conceptual underpinnings of the instruments on the resulting QOL scores is discussed...
Evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions: the role and activities of the Cochrane CollaborationElizabeth Waters
School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia 3125
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:285-9. 2006..This paper aims to provide a glossary of the terms and activities related to public health and the Cochrane Collaboration...
Psychometric properties of the quality of life questionnaire for children with CPElizabeth Waters
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 49:49-55. 2007..Preliminary statistics suggest that the child self-report questionnaire has acceptable psychometric properties. The questionnaire can be freely accessed at http://www.deakin.edu.ac/hmnbs/chase/cerebralpalsy/cp_qol_home.php...
Development of a condition-specific measure of quality of life for children with cerebral palsy: empirical thematic data reported by parents and childrenE Waters
School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Child Care Health Dev 31:127-35. 2005..This study identify themes of QOL for children with cerebral palsy and their parents to guide the development of a new condition-specific QOL scale...
Knowledge synthesis, translation and exchange in public health and health promotion: the role of a Cochrane Review GroupElizabeth Waters
School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy Burwood, Vic, Australia
Promot Educ 14:34-5. 2007..2007 will be an exciting year for evidence-informed Health Promotion and Public Health (HPPH) both within the Cochrane Collaboration and for our partners in policy, practice and research...
The role of a Prospective Public Health Intervention Study Register in building public health evidence: proposal for content and useElizabeth Waters
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, VicHealth, 15 31 Pelham Street PO Box 154, Carlton South, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 29:322-7. 2007..It is argued that this initiative has the potential to facilitate increased global cooperation and efficiency in the production of high quality evidence and ultimately in improved health outcomes for populations...
Prevalence of emotional and physical health concerns amongst young people in VictoriaE Waters
Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 35:28-33. 1999..To describe the emotional and physical health concerns of young people, and identify the concerns for which young people are more likely to seek help...
Influence of parental gender and self-reported health and illness on parent-reported child healthE Waters
Centre for Community Child Health, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Pediatrics 106:1422-8. 2000..Although there is clear evidence of the influence of parental factors on child health outcomes, the influence of parental perceptions of their health and illness on the reporting of child health remains primarily unknown...
The impact of caring for a child with cerebral palsy: quality of life for mothers and fathersE Davis
McCaughey Centre VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Level 5, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Child Care Health Dev 36:63-73. 2010..The aims of this study are to: (1) explore the QOL of mothers and fathers of children with CP aged 3-18 years; and (2) examine whether the impact of caring for a child with CP changes from childhood to adolescence...
Television, computer use and body mass index in Australian primary school childrenM Wake
Centre for Community Child Health, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 39:130-4. 2003..To investigate relationships between children's body mass index (BMI) and parent reports of children's television and video game/computer habits, controlling for other potential risk factors for paediatric obesity...
The impact of childhood conditions and concurrent morbidities on child health and well-beingE Waters
The McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Burwood, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Child Care Health Dev 34:418-29. 2008....
Agreement between adolescent self-report and parent reports of health and well-being: results of an epidemiological studyE Waters
Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Child Care Health Dev 29:501-9. 2003..To examine parent and adolescent agreement on physical, emotional, mental and social health and well-being in a representative population...
Social, cultural and environmental influences on child activity and eating in Australian migrant communitiesJ Green
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Child Care Health Dev 29:441-8. 2003..This study set out to examine the socio-cultural, familial and environmental factors influencing health, eating habits and patterns of physical activity contributing to child and adolescent overweight and obesity...
The effectiveness of nutrition interventions on dietary outcomes by relative social disadvantage: a systematic reviewJ Oldroyd
Cabrini Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, 183 Wattletree Rd, Malvern, Victoria, 3144, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:573-9. 2008..To determine whether nutrition interventions widen dietary inequalities across socioeconomic status groups...
The relationship between quality of life and functioning for children with cerebral palsyA Shelly
School of Health and Social Development, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 50:199-203. 2008..Physical type domains of QOL accounted for more of the variance in functioning than psychosocial type domains. Children with CP have the potential to report a high psychosocial QOL score even if they have poor functioning...
The parent-form Child Health Questionnaire in Australia: comparison of reliability, validity, structure, and normsE Waters
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Pediatr Psychol 25:381-91. 2000..To improve the ability to describe and compare child health within and between countries, using standardized multidimensional child health measures...
Criteria for the systematic review of health promotion and public health interventionsN Jackson
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Australia
Health Promot Int 20:367-74. 2005....
Interventions for preventing obesity in childhood. A systematic reviewK Campbell
School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, 3125, Australia
Obes Rev 2:149-57. 2001..The prevalence of obesity and overweight is increasing worldwide. Obesity in children impacts on their health in both short- and long-term. Obesity prevention strategies are poorly understood...
Multi-sectoral health promotion and public health: the role of evidenceRebecca Armstrong
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, VicHealth, 15 31 Pelham St, PO Box 154, Carlton South VIC 3053, Melbourne, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 28:168-72. 2006..This paper presents an argument for the development of multi-sector evidence and discusses both facilitators and challenges to this process...
Obesity prevention programs demand high-quality evaluationsBoyd Swinburn
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:305-7. 2007..There is an important opportunity to build collaborative mechanisms across community-based obesity prevention sites to enhance the program and evaluation quality and to accelerate knowledge translation into practice and policy...
Parent-proxy and child self-reported health-related quality of life: using qualitative methods to explain the discordanceElise Davis
School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia
Qual Life Res 16:863-71. 2007..The aim of this study was to use a qualitative methodology to examine why parents and children report different levels of HRQOL...
Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: background and evaluation design of the Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well initiativeAndrea M de Silva-Sanigorski
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia 3217
BMC Public Health 10:65. 2010..This paper describes the design of the evaluation of the five primary care partnership-based initiatives in the 'Go for your life' Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well (HPC:BAEW) initiative...
The Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field--expanding and promoting the evidence baseJodie Doyle
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, PO Box 154, Carlton South, Vic, Australia 3052
Promot Educ 9:96-7, 116, 127. 2002
The development of a network for community-based obesity prevention: the CO-OPS CollaborationSteven Allender
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:132. 2011..abstract:..
A qualitative study exploring barriers to a model of shared care for pre-school children's oral healthM G Gussy
School of Dental Science, University of Melbourne, 711 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Br Dent J 201:165-70; discussion 157. 2006..To explore the oral health beliefs and practices of primary health care professionals which may act as barriers to the development of a model of shared care for the oral health of pre-school children...
Getting the complete picture: combining parental and child data to identify the barriers to social inclusion for children living in low socio-economic areasB Davies
School of Health and Social Development, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia
Child Care Health Dev 34:214-22. 2008..This study aims to identify the barriers to social inclusion for children aged 9-12 years living in low socio-economic status (SES) areas, using both child-report and parent-report interviews...
Over and undernutrition in the children of Australian immigrants: Assessing the influence of birthplace of primary carer and English language use at home on the nutritional status of 4-5-year-oldsA M N Renzaho
School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, 21 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125, Victoria, Australia
Int J Pediatr Obes 4:73-80. 2009..To document the relationship between childhood nutrition status and ethnicity (defined as the birthplace of primary carer and English language use at home) using a nationally representative sample of 4- to 5-year-old children...
Evidence-based paediatric practice and its relation to the Cochrane CollaborationE Waters
Research and Public Health Unit, Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital and Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Cochrane Collaboration, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 39:137-8. 2003
Parent-reported health status of overweight and obese Australian primary school children: a cross-sectional population surveyM Wake
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:717-24. 2002..We examined parent-reported child health and well-being and parent concern about child weight by body mass index (BMI) category in a population sample of primary school children...
The nature of evidence resources and knowledge translation for health promotion practitionersRebecca Armstrong
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Melbourne, Australia
Health Promot Int 22:254-60. 2007..This paper also considers the potential role of knowledge brokers in helping to identify and translate evidence into practice...
Health-related quality of life of overweight and obese childrenJoanne Williams
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
JAMA 293:70-6. 2005..The negative effects of childhood overweight and obesity on quality of life (QOL) have been shown in clinical samples but not yet in population-based community samples...
Evidence-based public health: improving the relevance of Cochrane Collaboration systematic reviews to global public health prioritiesE Waters
Research and Public Health Unit, Cochrane Collaboration Health Promotion and Public Health Field, PO Box 154, Carlton South, Vic. 3053, Australia
J Public Health Med 25:263-6. 2003
Evidence synthesis, upstream determinants and health inequalities: the role of a proposed new Cochrane Public Health Review GroupElizabeth Waters
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, The McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Eur J Public Health 18:221-3. 2008
Indigenous child health research: a critical analysis of Australian studiesNaomi Priest
Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 33:55-63. 2009....
Primary care funding and organisational policy options and implications: a narrative review of evidence from five comparator countriesLucio Naccarella
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 188:S73-6. 2008..To review innovative models of primary care in different countries in order to identify potential mechanisms for reforming primary care policy in Australia...
Improving the reporting of public health intervention research: advancing TREND and CONSORTRebecca Armstrong
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, VicHealth, PO Box 154, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Melbourne, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 30:103-9. 2008..However, public health users of systematic reviews have been concerned with the paucity of synthesized information on context, development and rationale, implementation processes and sustainability factors...
Evidence-based public health: The importance of finding 'difficult to locate' public health and health promotion intervention studies for systematic reviewsFaline Howes
Cochrane Collaboration Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Carlton South, Vic. 3053, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 26:101-4. 2004
It's in your hands: the value of handsearching in conducting systematic reviews of public health interventionsRebecca Armstrong
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Melbourne, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 27:388-91. 2005..Handsearching for evidence of intervention effectiveness has therefore become a recognized tool in the systematic review process...
Can Australian general practitioners tackle childhood overweight/obesity? Methods and processes from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) randomized controlled trialZoe McCallum
Centre for Community Child Health, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 41:488-94. 2005..General practitioners (GPs) could make an important contribution to management of childhood overweight. However, there are no efficacy data to support this, and the feasibility of this approach is unknown...
Understanding parental motivators and barriers to uptake of child poison safety strategies: a qualitative studyL Gibbs
School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Inj Prev 11:373-7. 2005..To develop an understanding of factors acting as barriers and motivators to parental uptake of child poison safety strategies...
Geospatial analysis of childhood pertussis in Victoria, 1993-97Ying Chen
Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:456-61. 2002..To demonstrate the feasibility of using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in public health research...
Harnessing support for prioritised Cochrane reviews in health promotion and public health--update from the Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health FieldJodie Doyle
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Vic, Australia
Promot Educ 11:204-5. 2004
The role and theoretical evolution of knowledge translation and exchange in public healthRebecca Armstrong
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, VicHealth, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Melbourne, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 28:384-9. 2006..Knowledge Translation Strategy, 2004). The most recent conceptualizations consider the complexities of public health decision-making. The role of practitioners and communities is increasingly considered...
Quality of life instruments for children and adolescents with neurodisabilities: how to choose the appropriate instrumentElizabeth Waters
McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 51:660-9. 2009..The aim of the current paper is to describe QoL instruments for children and adolescents with neurodisabilities against criteria that we think are important when choosing or developing a QoL instrument...
Double disadvantage: the influence of ethnicity over socioeconomic position on childhood overweight and obesity: findings from an inner urban population of primary school childrenElizabeth Waters
School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Int J Pediatr Obes 3:196-204. 2008..To examine the relationship between overweight/obesity in children, socioeconomic status and ethnicity/cultural background...
Economic evaluation of a primary care trial to reduce weight gain in overweight/obese children: the LEAP trialMelissa Wake
Department of Pediatrics, Centre for Community Child Health, The University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Ambul Pediatr 8:336-41. 2008..As the literature suggests, this approach may be ineffective; it is important to document the opportunity costs incurred by brief primary care obesity interventions that ultimately may not alter body mass index (BMI) trajectory...
Key issues in Cochrane systematic reviews: cultural and economic considerationsJodie Doyle
The McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Vic, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 30:342-4. 2008
Issues raised in systematic reviews of complex multisectoral and community based interventionsJodie Doyle
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 15-31, Pelham Street, PO Box 154, Carlton South, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 30:213-5. 2008
Health and developmental outcome of children following prenatal diagnosis of confined placental mosaicismDavid J Amor
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia
Prenat Diagn 26:443-8. 2006..To determine the long-term health and development of a cohort of children in whom confined placental mosaicism (CPM) was diagnosed at prenatal diagnosis...
Children's after school activity: associations with weight status and family circumstanceKylie Hesketh
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
Pediatr Exerc Sci 20:84-94. 2008..3 vs. 3.0; p = .02). Child-reported mean METs were higher for fathers born in Australia (2.9 vs. 2.6; p = .04) and where english was their main language (2.9 vs. 2.3, p = .003)...
Re: A structured review of studies on health-related quality of life and economic evaluation in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemiaElise Davis
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:1786; author reply 1786-7. 2005
Quality of life of children with CP: condition-specific instrument and proxy reportsElise Davis
Dev Med Child Neurol 50:167. 2008
Swinburn right of replyBoyd Swinburn
Aust N Z J Public Health 32:86. 2008
Stability of body mass index in Australian children: a prospective cohort study across the middle childhood yearsKylie Hesketh
Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Public Health Nutr 7:303-9. 2004..To investigate the prevalence and incidence of overweight and obesity, the frequency of overweight resolution and the influence of parental adiposity during middle childhood...
A glossary for evidence based public healthLucie Rychetnik
Sydney Health Projects Group, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:538-45. 2004..It draws on the published literature, experience gained over several years analysis of the topic, and discussions with public health colleagues, including researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and students...
Evidence-based public health: what does it offer developing countries?Celia McMichael
School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, VIC 3086, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 27:215-21. 2005..The public health evidence base urgently needs strengthening, with dedicated effort towards increasing the relevance of primary evidence and systematic reviews...
New developments for effectiveness systematic reviews in health promotion: cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health FieldJodie Doyle
Promot Educ 10:118-9. 2003
UNCROC and the prevention of childhood obesity: the right not to have food advertisements on televisionRichard Ingleby
Faculty of Business and Law, School of Law, Deakin University
J Law Med 16:49-56. 2008..The scope of the discussion is then expanded to consider the implications of rights-based discourse in broader public health contexts...
Systematic reviews of public health in developing countries are in trainElizabeth Waters
BMJ 328:585. 2004
Chronic immobilization stress alters aspects of emotionality and associative learning in the ratGwendolyn E Wood
The Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
Behav Neurosci 122:282-92. 2008..e., struggling and helplessness). These results emphasize the emotional and learned responses to CIS evident during and after the stress treatment, as well as the importance of individual differences...
