University of Melbourne academic promotion to CAH staff member
Dr Sarah Drew is now a Senior Reseach Fellow in recognition of her research work and contribution to adolescent health and chronic illness.
Research
You want to see your teen’s medical records, but should you have the right?
Parents want doctors to inform them about a wide range of health and behavioural issues related to their adolescent children, even when their children do not want them to be told.
Breaching Confidentiality with Adolescents: What do Australian Psychologists Think?
Confidentiality and young people paper published in Journal Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
Dutch research students return home
Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands sent two students to learn from CAH team.
Adolescent fertility and family planning in East Asia and the Pacific: a review of DHS reports
A review of adolescent pregnancy in East Asia and the Pacific.
MENTAL DISORDERS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DISEASE BURDEN IN YOUNG PEOPLE WORLDWIDE
The Lancet has this month published a paper that builds on the CAHs adolescent mortality paper from 2009 and reviews the contribution of disability as measured by Disability Adjusted Life Years in the 10-24 yr old age group.
New publication on dyslexia
New evidence-based program on dyslexia by Dr Nola Firth, Centre Adolescnet Health.
Swiss Paediatrician joins CAH
Dr Anne-Emmanuelle Ambresin will be with the CAH for the next 2 year primarily working in research and studying.
Prof George Patton Lancet article 2011
The Lancet article on mortality trends in children and young people.
Article on Eating Disorders for GP’s
Eating Disorders: early identification in general practice by Michele Yeo and Elizabeth Hughes.