Caries Initiation Across Childhood To Adulthood By Exposure To Water Fluoridation
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$198,297.00
Summary
This research program is expected to contribute to filling significant gaps in the understanding of factors determining the oral health of Australian children and young adults. The purpose of the project is to develop a better understanding of the outcome of long-term exposure to fluoridated water among young adults.
Parenting+ Improving Health And Service-use Outcomes Through Health Literacy Training For New Parents: An Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$495,761.00
Summary
The Parenting+ project will evaluate an educational program for socio-economically and culturally diverse new parents. The study will assess the impact of the program on parents' health literacy, parent and infant health and psychosocial outcomes and health service use over one year. It additionally will identify key characteristics and reproducible steps in the successful implementation of the program in order to support wider adoption by other health services.
LIFEPATH: Life-course Biological Pathways Underlying Social Differences In Healthy Ageing
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$470,466.00
Summary
Healthy ageing varies across society due to environmental, behavioural and social circumstances that affect peoples’ lives. To improve our ability to change this we will investigate suspected biological mechanisms over the life course. Using repeated blood samples collected during a large prospective study, we will measure a very large number of biological markers and analyse these combined with lifestyle and behavioural information to identify the modifiable predictors of healthy ageing.
Home, Family And Socioeconomic Influences On Obesity-related Behaviours
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$304,874.00
Summary
Preventing obesity in children is a national health priority. Obesity promoting behaviours are established early in life, develop from childhood into adulthood, and are difficult to change. Parents play an important role in shaping the environments that either prevent or encourage obesity in children. This project aims to inform obesity prevention initiatives in Australian children and their families, and particularly among those at high risk due to their low socioeconomic position.