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Research project
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Lead researcher
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Policy link
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Food Hardship and Early Childhood Nutrition.
Research focus:
- The prevalence, type, severity and persistence of food-related hardships among families with preschool-ages children.
- Associations between food-related hardships and child nutrition, health and development outcomes during the preschool period.
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Dr Sarah Gerritsen, University of Auckland
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Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet; Ministry of Health
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Completed.
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Ethnic differences in the use and experience of child healthcare services: What factors contribute to ethnic gaps in GP registration, immunisation and dental checks?
Research focus:
- Examine life-course trajectories in ethnic differences in the uptake of three healthcare services at various time points.
- Quantify the contribution of different factors to ethnic differences at each time point available.
- Applying a dynamic fixed effects estimation to uncover the drivers behind ethnic differences at each time point available.
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Professor Gail Pacheco, Auckland University of Technology
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Ministry of Health; Oranga Tamariki
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Completed.
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Identifying predictors of child injury in the preschool years.
Research focus:
- To investigate how combinations of situations and multiple events act across the life-course to either protect a child or, alternatively, place them at risk of isolated/repeated injuries requiring medical attention.
- To determine how these life-course determinants of childhood injury vary between population subgroups in particular for Māori children.
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Associate Professor Bridget Kool, University of Auckland
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Safekids
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Completed
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What are the housing-related experiences of families with young children in New Zealand today? Does this experience differ for those families living in rental or social housing and/or on low incomes?
Research focus:
- The distribution of housing tenure types over the first seven years of life, and how this changes over time.
- The distribution of child, parental, family, household, and community factors between different housing tenure types and how these key characteristics are related to residential mobility.
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Dr Emma Marks, University of Auckland
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Housing New Zealand
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Completed
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Mutable factors mediating the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on children’s readiness for school.
Research focus:
- What are the services and potential programme elements that are associated with improved school readiness amongst children exposed to ACEs?
- To what extent are children of teen mothers exposed to ACEs; how well do they perform in school readiness tests, and what are the mutable protective factors that are associated with improved school readiness for children of teen mothers?
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Professor Rhema Vaithianathan, Auckland University of Technology
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Oranga Tamariki
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Completed
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School Readiness, Adversities in Childhood Experience and Access to Government Services: A Scoping Study on Potential Protective Factors
Adversities of Childhood Experience and School Readiness - Focus on children born to teen and non-teen mothers in the Growing Up in New Zealand data
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