The Medical journal of Australia
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Health professionals should educate families about risk factors for accidental asphyxiation in shared-sleeping arrangements.
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The first Australian report is welcome and should help inform policy.
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To examine the levels and growth rates of absolute funding to mental health research from 2001 to 2010, compared with other National Health Priority Areas (NHPAs), and the relative rate of mental health funding compared with other NHPAs, by taking disease burden into account. The quality of Australian research in mental health was also examined using objective indicators of research strength. ⋯ Low levels of funding for mental health research appear to be largely attributable to low capacity. Mental health research in Australia is of high quality, and efforts are needed to build capacity.