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The Before School Check (B4SC) is a nationwide NZ programme offering a free health and development check for 4-year-olds; it is the 12th core contact of the Well Child Tamariki Ora Schedule of services.

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This research will describe the factors that both promote and hinder school readiness and contribute to the school readiness gap in NZ. We will consider a number of individual and contextual factors including:

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This project will use mixed methods to explore the hopes of dreams parents hold for their 4 1/2 year olds. Parents’ reported hopes and dreams will be coded using an adapted version of Maslow’s (1943) hierarchy of needs, and quantitative analysis will then be used to identify important predictors of these hopes and dream categories...

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There is growing interest in the non-classical role of vitamin D; particularly role of vitamin D on the immune system and respiratory tract infections. Dried blood samples are collected through heel prick onto absorbent cards as soon after 48 hours of birth as possible as part of the national newborn screening programme.

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Genetic factors that may influence risk of severe respiratory infections in babies. Around 1-2% of infants are hospitalised with severe viral respiratory infections, and of those, 10% require treatment in a paediatric intensive care unit. Recent work suggests that mutations in the IFIH1 gene may contribute towards increased susceptibility to viral infections...

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New Zealand experiences a large disease burden from respiratory tract infections. Hospitalisation at <2 years of age with pneumonia and bronchiolitis leads to persistence of respiratory symptoms 1 year later in at least one-third of children.

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Fathers play a significant role in the lives of children. With almost half of Pacific fathers born overseas and over 60% of these migrant fathers raised outside of NZ, further attention needs to be given to the challenges and strengths of fathers in NZ and what policies and services would best respond to the needs of a diverse mix of fathers in NZ...

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Fathers play a significant role in the lives of children. With a significant percentage of Asian fathers being migrants, further attention needs to be given to the challenges and strengths of fathers in NZ and what policies and services would best respond to the needs of a diverse mix of fathers in NZ. Parenting practices, the amount and quality of time spent with their child and the expectations and hopes for their children are all important indicators of healthy and positive engagement and experiences.

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The home environment is an important risk factor for eczema, a common childhood disease and serious skin infection. New Zealand experiences a high rate of hospital admissions for serious skin infection, especially for children...

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The current housing situation in parts of New Zealand has led to a shortage of affordable homes, impacting on many families. Given the significant impact of the housing environment on childhood illnesses and diseases, it is imperative that any evidence on the current housing environment is presented to help inform housing policies in NZ and in turn, reduce the rates of preventable illnesses and diseases among children. This paper describes the housing environment for Pacific children and in turn, provides evidence to support both housing policies and healthy environments for families.

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The current housing situation in parts of New Zealand has led to a shortage of affordable homes, impacting on many families.

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The evidence that teenage childbearing have negative consequences for mothers and their children is equivocal.

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This research focuses on the ethnic identification of the children of Growing Up in New Zealand. Measuring ethnicity clearly and consistently is important in order to make sure that comparisons between groups and across time are clear. In New Zealand, measurement of outcomes by ethnicity is critical for achieving equity.

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Enhanced human capital leads to increased employment opportunities, higher standards of living, and economic growth. Early music and literacy in the household result in improved knowledge and skills acquisition, pointing to the role they play in human capital development...

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Dietary practices established in childhood track into adulthood. Understanding how dietary patterns in childhood become established therefore has implications for dietary intake throughout life.Wide variance exists in patterns of weaning practices and patterns of dietary intake in early childhood...

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NZ children suffer from very high rates of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI). This project aims to determine whether colonisation with specific genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus plays an important role in SSTI in NZ. The GUINZ cohort children had bacterial swabs taken 54 months of age.

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Starting ‘big school’ or primary school is a major transition for pre-schoolers. Many parents proactively prepare their children for the school environment. For others, there is little awareness of interactions or activities that enhance pre-schoolers’ readiness to learn and to engage with others in a school setting.

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Starting ‘big school’ or primary school is a major transition for pre-schoolers. Many parents proactively prepare their children for the school environment. For others, there is little awareness of interactions or activities that enhance pre-schoolers’ readiness to learn and to engage with others in a school setting.

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This project builds upon the work that has already been completed on child vulnerability and summarized in the Growing Up in New Zealand vulnerability reports.

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Exposure to alcohol during pregnancy is one of the prenatal risk factors that can negatively influence child development.

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Breastfeeding prevents infectious diseases, particularly, acute respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. Breastfeeding is also believed to prevent the development of allergic diseases and obesity and to enhance cognitive development. Currently we do not know what strategies would be most likely to increase the duration of breastfeeding in all NZ children.

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The project will describe and predict respiratory hospitalisations in early childhood.

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The project will specifically examine associations within ethnic groups. In particular, rates of antenatal and postnatal depression and IPV are high among Pacific women. These analyses will consider the impact of these risks for Pacific children. The project will also consider whether IPV places children at increased risk on the SDQ, and also whether parenting behaviour and the quality of the parent-child relationship mediates this relationship

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Numeracy skills are important for social and academic success in modern society. The foundations of early numeracy learning are likely to include both inbuilt child abilities and the experiences they have within their environment.

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The aim of this project is to examine parenting at age 4 ½ years. We will validate the brief measure of parenting by conducting a factor analysis and examining associations with other aspects of parenting (9 months and 2 years)...

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A strong ethnic identity can be protective for mental and physical health when individuals experience social disadvantage. Our goal is to understand how important ethnic identity is to the mothers and fathers in the Growing Up In New Zealand study.

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This research builds on existing Growing Up in New Zealand analyses about residential mobility and focuses on how often the children and their families move house during the preschool period...

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The project will determine the prevalence of family violence using the Pacific Growing Up in NZ families and identify the risk and protective factors relevant to preventing and enhancing Pacific family resilience to family violence and related harms.

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