Medical technology has improved the health status of the population in developed countries. This has influenced the progress from intuitive medicine to precision medicine through the use of imaging, molecular biology and ...

Background: New Zealand (NZ) has the highest incidence rate of melanoma skin cancer in the world. Although most cases of melanoma, and other skin cancers, can be prevented by reducing sunlight exposure, sun-safety ...

This thesis investigates governance processes at the intersection between primary care and public health. The way in which primary care and public health work together needs to change to respond to changing health need, ...

This thesis sought to understand ethnic disparities in stroke within Aotearoa, New Zealand, from the perspectives of Māori. Stroke burden is greatest for Māori, the indigenous peoples of New Zealand, who have higher rates ...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness often accompanied by disabling impairments in neurocognition and social cognition, the latter including deficits in “theory of mind” (ToM). Since Frith (1992) first proposed the ...

A rapid remission of type 2 diabetes mellitus occurs after gastric bypass surgery in the morbidly obese however, a unifying explanation for the associated normalisation of glucose and insulin parameters of diabetes of this ...

Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB), results in 1.4 million deaths annually. The escalating rate of active TB, due to co-infection with HIV and emergence of ...

Background and purpose: Understanding how people living with tetraplegia experience rehabilitation can help establish how those individuals make sense of their social realities during rehabilitation, and whether services ...

Indoor fungi are increasingly recognised to be associated with adverse respiratory health effects. However, how fungal exposure should be measured remains a complex issue. New Zealand has particularly high rates of respiratory ...

BACKGROUND:The 1918-19 influenza pandemic represents one of the worst human pandemics in recorded history. Given the severity of this pandemic, it could be described as a worstcase scenario for guiding future population-based ...