Asthma in childhood
Asthma in childhood is common and it can be serious. About 1 in 4 young children and 1 in 7 teenagers in South Australia are affected by asthma. You need to work out a plan for managing your child's asthma with your doctor. If a child is short of ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Childhood leukaemia fact sheet
Cancer afflicts about one in 550 children under the age of 15. Acute leukaemia is the most common form of childhood cancer, representing about 35% of cases. Acute leukaemia develops when white blood cells grow out of control and continue to ... [... more]
NineMSN Health |
What is measles?
Measles can be a serious childhood infection. Although it is now rare in Australia due to immunisation, it is still common, and a common cause of death in many developing countries. Measles is highly contagious. An unimmunised child is very ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Physical Education
The effects of having epilepsy differ for different people. If a young person has had epilepsy since early childhood, she may have been over-protected by her parents and have lost confidence in her ability to manage on her own. She may also have ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
early childhood
Adopting a child is one of the most important decisions that you can ever make. The decisions that you make after the adoption, as your children reach each new stage in their development, are also important. Often adoptive parents wonder whether ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Diabetes - managing diabetes in childhood
Managing diabetes is more than just keeping blood glucose levels right. The aim is to make sure that a child or young person can do the things that others of their age can do, even though some aspects of life need to be more carefully ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
What are common childhood injuries?
Young children need to have a safe environment. They are too young to take care of their own safety. They cannot understand danger. Telling them and teaching them about danger is important, but it does not keep them safe. Keeping young children ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Bullying - Better Health Channel.
Bullying is ongoing aggression by children or adults against another child or children. It can have detrimental effects on all involved. Schools, early childhood services and sporting or interest groups are responsible to ensure a safe ... [... more]
Better Health |
Jimmy Carter
The first collection of poetry by former President Jimmy Carter, who shares here his private memories about his childhood, his family and political life, with illustrations by his granddaughter. Always a Reckoning sets a precedent since no other ... [... more]
Random House |
Kenneth Bock
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these ... [... more]
Random House |
Ian McEwan
Born in 1948, the son of a Scots sergeant-major, Ian McEwan's childhood was a typical army one of the time - moving from Aldershot to Singapore and then again to Tripoli so at the age of eleven he was sent away to Woolverstone Hall, a state-run ... [... more]
Random House |
Kinta Beevor
Kinta Beevor was born in 1911 in Northbourne, England, and died in 1995. The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the wars. When Kinta Beeevor was five, her father, the painter Aubrey ... [... more]
Random House |
