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Children exposed to family violence from infancy are up to three times more likely to develop asthma and have a psychiatric diagnosis, emotional behavioural difficulties or impaired language skills by the age of 10.
These are some of the grim findings from a decade-long study led by the Murdoch Childrenâs Research Institute, which documented the experiences of more than 1500 first-time Victorian mothers.
Family violence can have long-lasting consequences.
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The study which has been published in the prestigious British Medical Journal, also found children who saw their mothers endure intimate partner violence over an extended period during the first 10 years of life fared much worse than those who received intervention by the age of five.
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First published on Tue 20 Apr 2021 17.08 EDT
Good morning. A verdict has just been announced in the trial over the police killing of
George Floyd.
Australia’s flawed vaccination program is having devastating ramifications for those stuck abroad.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of murder over the killing of George Floyd. US president Joe Biden earlier said he was “praying the verdict is the right verdict” and described theevidence against Chauvin as “overwhelming”. Three thousand National Guard troops have been deployed in Minneapolis and St Paul, a region that has been on edge,
not only about whether there will be violent unrest but also whether justice will be done in the death of Floyd, one of so many Black people killed by police in America. Just nine days ago, police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center shot dead 20-year-old Daunte Wright after a traffic stop.
‘People are walking around with really high levels of distress’: Australia’s regional mental health plight Celina Ribeiro
Dr Katherine Graham has been a GP in Horsham for 12 years now. It’s a market town in the Wimmera region, about halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide; one of those larger-sized rural towns where people within a two-hour radius come to do the big shop. It’s surrounded by agriculture: cropping, sheep, cattle.
There are about 20,000 people in Horsham, but tens of thousands more from surrounding areas use the town as a hub for their health care. For those people Horsham does not offer much if their mental health requires care.
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