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The need for a WA Youth Health Policy has been evident for years. Now, with The Kids Research Institute Australia helping to drive the project, it is coming to fruition.

This study calls for the early identification of children who are vulnerable to maltreatment, the better identification of the duration and severity of maltreatment experiences, and the provision of continued care and support, to reduce the child's deliberate self harm risk in adolescence.

Australian energy drink users tend to have heavier alcohol consumption patterns be a cigarette smoker and use illicit drugs relative to non-users.

Disability in adults with low back pain (LBP) is associated with negative back pain beliefs (BPBs).

Over the past decade we have seen declining rates in child engagement in physical activity with escalating health problems ensuing.

Young adults' alcohol consumption appears to be impacted by liquor store density and convenience, rather than outlet size

A study by The Kids has found children with a parent who has gone to prison are significantly more likely to have poor development outcomes.

To determine age-specific and age-standardised incidence trends of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) or rheumatic heart disease (RHD) among Indigenous Western Australians aged less than 35 years of age.

To explore how those with a physical illness in childhood are managing in relationships across childhood to young adulthood.

Efforts to promote adolescent wellbeing are of increasing global interest. Although the ability to measure wellbeing is essential for identifying disparities between and within populations, and for tracking progress in improving wellbeing, the best way to measure this elusive concept in adolescents is unclear.