National Centre for Longitudinal Data
Publication using LSAC data 2013-14
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014, Australia's health 2014, Australia's health series no. 14.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2013, Scoping reportable measures for the National Framework for
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Health and Welfare, Canberra
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2013, National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children, 2009‒
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Canberra.
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Children, Occasional Paper no 50, Department of Social Services, Canberra
Baxter, J & Hand, K 2013, Access to early childhood education in Australia, Research Report No. 24,
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Baxter, J, Gray, M, Hand, K & Hayes, A 2013, Parental joblessness, financial disadvantage and the wellbeing
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of childcare, other household work and paid work, paper presented at the 5th International Community, Work
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Huerta, M. et al. 2013, Fathers' Leave, Fathers' Involvement and Child Development: Are They Related?
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Jansen, P, Mensah, F, Nicholson, J & Wake, M 2013, ’Family and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequalities
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Kalb, G, Le, T & Leung, F 2014, Outcomes for teenage mothers in the first years after birth, Melbourne
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Lucas, N, Bayer, J, Gold, L, Mensah, F, Canterford, L, Wake, M, Westrupp, E, & Nicholson, J 2013, ‘The cost
of healthcare for children with mental health difficulties’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry,
vol. 47, iss. 9, pp. 849-858
Lucas, N, Nicholson, J & Erbas, B 2013, ‘Child mental health after parental separation: the impact of
resident/non-resident parenting, parent mental health, conflict and socioeconomics’, Journal of Family Studies,
vol. 19, iss. 1, pp. 53-69
Magee, C, Caputi, P & Iverson, D, 2014, ‘Lack of sleep could increase obesity in children and too much
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