Department of Public Health
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Pre-hospital antibiotics in meningococcal disease
Introduction Invasive meningococcal disease is a devastating infection and early treatment is considered critical in reducing the risk of death. To this end, in some countries general practitioners (GPs) are advised to ... -
Breastfeeding trends in New Zealand from 1997-2002 and implications for policy implementation
This thesis is about breastfeeding trends, examined in the light of national and local breastfeeding policy implementation. It compares the rates of breastfeeding to governmental breastfeeding targets as specified by the ... -
Improving Pacific Health and Reducing Health Inequalities: Policy Implications
Pacific people migrated to New Zealand in search of a better life. However, despite making important social, sports, cultural, and economic contributions in New Zealand, they continue to face challenges in other areas such ... -
Quantifying Children's Exposure to Outdoor Food Advertising
The marketing of unhealthy food is a key modifiable influence on children’s dietary behaviours and childhood obesity. The WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) has recommended that settings where children gather ... -
Reversing the decay of preschool oral health: a mixed methods approach to examining the influences on preschool oral health.
The prevalence of early childhood caries is high in certain populations. Early childhood caries has a significant effect on an individual’s immediate oral health status as well as their oral health status later in life. ... -
Improved access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and the declining abortion rate
The New Zealand abortion rate declined significantly from 2008 to 2014. Internationally, increased use of LARC methods has been recognised as having played an important role in declining abortion rates. LARC are highly ... -
Estimating the health burden of influenza in New Zealand
Background Influenza causes a large number of hospitalisations and deaths each year. This thesis is the first study to use modelling in a single country to estimate the health burden of influenza across demographic ... -
Grass Routes: An observational analysis of how children use green spaces
Aim This research aimed to investigate whether there is inequality relating to the use of green space among different demographic groups and disadvantaged populations. Method Children’s use of green space was observed ... -
Understanding Men’s Mental Health: Gender Relations and Mental Well-Being
Men’s mental health has remained understudied and undertheorised. Much of the early research on men’s mental health comes from large scale quantitative studies focusing on gender differences in mental illness. It is only ... -
Coping has limits: 'Mixed Presenters' emergency department presentations for self-harm and other reasons
Suicide is largely preventable, in part through effective emergency department (ED) care of people at risk of self-harm. Ample research on people presenting to ED for self-harm (including suicidal ideation, deliberate ... -
Assessing the nature and extent of children's screen time
Background and aims New Zealand children are currently ranked the third most overweight and obese in the developed world. Further, differences by ethnic and socioeconomic factors are evident, with Māori and Pacific ... -
Observations, and the cost-effectiveness, of sun protection in schools
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 ... -
E te tākuta, kei a koe te tikanga - A qualitative study of factors influencing treatment decision-making in cancer consultations with Māori patients and whānau
Aim This research explores factors influencing treatment decision-making in cancer consultations with Māori patients and whānau (extended families) to ascertain if any of these factors could be contributing to cancer ... -
Supported self-management: a novel cancer survivorship care pathway
Introduction: More people are living with, through and beyond cancer which makes cancer survivorship an increasingly important area of public health focus. Cancer survivors manage cancer and treatment-related health impacts ... -
The Organizational Sustainability of Pacific Mental Health Services in New Zealand: What Influences Success?
INTRODUCTION The growing burden of mental disorders in New Zealand as elsewhere is of particular concern to the health sector. In New Zealand, the over-representation of Pacific people in mental health statistics led to ... -
Achieving Equitable Asthma Services for Māori
Introduction: Significant inequities exist in Aotearoa New Zealand for tamariki (children) Māori with asthma, who suffer a high burden of disease and high hospital admission rates, as compared to non-Māori. Primary ... -
Child exposure to second-hand smoke within "private spaces"- Comparing survey data with photographic evidence
ABSTRACT There is a restricted range of non-survey research on child exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) within ‘private’ spaces - i.e. homes (inside and outside) and personal vehicles. The available evidence has typically ... -
Behind the front desk: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the talk of General Practice Receptionists about health inequities
General Practice Receptionists (GPRs) are an under-researched and undervalued group of healthcare workers, both in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally, evidenced by the limited data on—and research involving—GPRs. As ... -
Does the sport-related food environment support children's right to health?
Under the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), children have the right to health and live in conditions that support that right, including a healthy food environment. However, a substantial proportion of the ... -
Making sense of Stomach cancer Inequities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Background Stomach cancer is an important disease for Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. Māori are more likely to be diagnosed with stomach cancer than non-Māori and have poorer survival. The higher incidence in Māori can ...