The Better Environmental Health, Housing and Child Health Study (BEHHCH)

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/490335

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Many Indigenous children experience poor growth and development. The proposed project will address this problem by introducing and testing system changes to create healthy living environments. The system changes will aim to tackle concurrently a number of the key underlying causes of poor child health through improving housing conditions and reducing environmental contamination. The lessons from this research should be relevant to many remote communities

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $287,321.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Indigenous Health

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Best practice standards and guidelines | Environmental health | Environmental risk factors | Remote Indigenous communities | Social determinants of health

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