ABC Stories: Safety
Hand-picked features and articles from across the ABC about safety.
Topics
- Nutrition & Fitness
- Connecting
- Health & Daily Care
- Behaviour
- Play & Learning
- Safety
- Development
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Pool Safety
12 November 2008
According to the 2007 National Drowning Report, 35 children between the ages of 0-4 drowned in 06/07. The Royal Life Saving Society Australia has produced a simple checklist to promote pool safety.
Keywords: ABC Radio, safety, babies, newborns, toddlers, school age, preschoolers, health
Pool Safety
12 November 2008
According to the 2007 National Drowning Report, 35 children between the ages of 0-4 drowned in 06/07. The Royal Life Saving Society Australia has produced a simple checklist to promote pool safety.
Keywords: ABC Radio, safety, babies, newborns, toddlers, school age, preschoolers, health
Child advocate workers pushing for quicker action
3 July 2008
Cases over the last few weeks have emerged involving the plight of children whose families had escaped the attention of child protection workers by moving interstate.
Keywords: ABC Radio, babies, newborns, toddlers, school age, preschoolers, behaviour, development, health, safety
Responding to child neglect
24 June 2008
More child abuse is being reported to welfare agencies but often we don't know until it's too late.
Keywords: ABC Radio, babies, newborns, toddlers, school age, preschoolers, behaviour, development, health, safety
Private health cover: sliced and diced?
15 May 2008
A structural adjustment, or an assault on private health cover? Moves to diminish incentives for private heath cover may be the thin end of the wedge.
Keywords: ABC health, wellbeing, babies, newborns, toddlers, preschoolers, school age, health, safety
Calls for better eating disorder prevention programs in schools
3 May 2008
There are calls for high schools to run better programs to prevent girls developing eating disorders. A survey of Australian girls found that that 10 per cent of those aged between 15 and 17 show symptoms of a serious eating disorder.
Keywords: ABC Radio, preschoolers, school age, nutrition, health, behaviour, development, safety
Incubator fields affect baby's heart rate
2 May 2008
Electromagnetic fields generated by hospital incubators influence the heart rates of newborns, say Italian researchers, who call for more research on the impact of such fields on premature babies.
Keywords: ABC Science, babies, newborn, health, safety, development
Transcript: The allergy generation and the EpiPen epidemic
30 April 2008
Allergies to everything from dust, to cats, to peanuts are hitting young children hard, and doctors don't really understand why or what to do.
Keywords: ABC Radio National, newborns, babies, toddlers, preschoolers, school age, health, nutrition, safety
Allergy sufferers could benefit from dogs
30 April 2008
A six year study of 9,000 children in Germany has found kids run less risk of being sensitive to allergens, if they share their home with a dog.
Keywords: ABC radio, toddlers, school age, preschoolers, health, safety, connecting, play, development
Transcript: A day in the life of...Meet the Ingersons
12 April 2008
Join Natasha Mitchell as she experiences a day in the life of the Ingerson family, with rare insights into one of the most complicated neurological birth defects.
Keywords: ABC Radio, babies, newborns, toddlers, school age, prechsoolers, behaviour, health, development, connecting, play, safety
Transcript: Bike Safety
23 November 2007
As we're all encouraged to battle the bulge, improve our health and the environment, increasing number of commuters are opting for bikes. That means sharing the road with all manner of transport - a relationship which can be fraught.
Keywords: ABC Stateline, toddlers, school age, health & safety, play & learning
Transcript: Far North Qld leads way for bush midwives
30 September 2007
It's a situation that's sadly become all too familiar, the closure of maternity units across rural and regional Australia.
Keywords: ABC TV, newborns, toddlers, safety, health & daily care
The childcare question - what are the choices?
19 September 2007
By the time Australian children begin school, almost all of them will have attended some sort of child care or preschool. LSAC has found that the amount of care, the type of care and the quality of the care varies enormously.
Keywords: ABC, life at 2, preschoolers, school age, toddlers, development, health & daily care, safety
Does it take a village?
27 August 2007
Ten years ago Hilary Clinton popularised and advocated the idea that “It takes a village to raise a child”. According to results from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), she was right.
Keywords: ABC, life at 2, school age, preschoolers, toddlers, development, health & daily care, behaviour, play & learning, safety
