Healthier mums have healthier kids

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Mother's who have poor mental and physical health during pregnancy, and in the year after giving birth, tend to have kids who also have poorer health as infants and adolescents, according to Australian research. The authors say this suggests that initiatives to improve mother's physical and mental health would not only improve child health but would also reduce the national health burden.

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Organisation/s: University of Southern Queensland

Funder: this research did not receive any specific grants from any funding agencies in public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. The corresponding author (KA) has affiliation from commercial organization, Purple Informatics (PI). KA is a consultant of the commercial affiliation, PI. The funder provided support in the form of consultancy fees for authors KA for other works but did not provide any financial support for this work. Further, the funder (PI) did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section

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