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Post-disaster housing recovery and community resilience: the case of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011
Background: After a major natural disaster like the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, western democracies like New Zealand tend to enact top-down recovery statutes and regulations that are thought to enable a nimble ... -
Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on price, import and sale volumes in an island: interrupted time series analysis
Objective To evaluate the impact of changes in import tariffs on sweetened beverages. Design Interrupted time series analysis examined sweetened beverage tariff increases of 40% to 60% in 2008 and to 75% in 2012; and ... -
Inequalities in sustainable transport use in Aotearoa New Zealand: gender, intersectionality, and commuting using sustainable modes
Background: Sustainable transport (ST) offers significant public health benefit. Increasing ST-use, as an alternative to motor-vehicle transport, is a significant strategy for reducing/mitigating environmental damage. ... -
Smoking enclaves: A mixed-methods study of social contextual influences on smoking among New Zealanders with mental illness
Tobacco smoking is common among people with moderate/severe forms of mental illness, and it is a major contributor to their generally poorer physical health. Tobacco control policies and cessation programmes have not ... -
Assessing the potential public health impacts of the intensification of dairy farming in New Zealand
Global, national, and local pressures have shaped the New Zealand dairy industry and have led to the intensification of dairy farming. There are a number of potential health impacts, both positive and negative, associated ... -
What protects against pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes? Observational study of integrated health and social data
Aims To examine the incidence of type 2 diabetes in people with newly diagnosed prediabetes and the factors that protect against this progression. Methods The study population was 14,043 adults with pre-diabetes ... -
Statistical code for manuscript: What protects against pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes? observational study of integrated health and social data
This is the statistical code used for the manuscript: What protects against pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes? Observational study of integrated health and social data Progression of prediabetes to diabetes study. The ... -
Evaluating the impact of social housing remediation and regeneration on tenants’ wellbeing: Health, social connections and safety
Background – Adequate housing is a basic human right. Despite this, much of New Zealand’s housing stock is in poor condition. Notably, there has been a substantial underinvestment in renewing New Zealand’s social housing ... -
The validity of police-reported information on the injury severity of non-fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes in New Zealand
Objective To assess the validity of police-reported information on the severity of injury for non-fatal Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes (MVTCs ). Methods Details of MVTCs reported to the police and resulting in non-fatal ... -
Sex, drugs, smokes and booze: What's driving teen trends? Describing and explaining trends in adolescent sexual behaviour, cannabis use, smoking and alcohol use in the early 21st century
Today’s adolescents are far less likely to smoke, drink, use drugs or be sexually active than their 1990s counterparts. My doctoral project set out to describe and explain trends in adolescent risk behaviours in the early ... -
Cold and Crowded - The Early Childhood Education Environments Study
Background In recent decades New Zealand has seen a growth in the use of childcare as a weekday living environment for children under five years old, with an increasing proportion of children attending, and children ... -
Business influences on government decisions affecting public health: a case study from Australia and New Zealand
The aim of this thesis is to enable a better understanding of how business power influences government policy decisions when there is conflict between business and public health objectives. This is to support more effective ... -
Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage tariffs and excise on taxed and untaxed beverage trade volumes to the Cook Islands and Tonga: Pre-analysis study protocol
This study will contribute to the international literature of policy evaluation studies that examine the impact of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes on sales, purchasing and dietary consumption (summarised in Chapter 4 ... -
Everyone Counts: Defining and measuring severe housing deprivation (homelessness)
Homelessness is widely regarded as a serious social issue, a severe form of deprivation, and a clear threat to health and wellbeing. There is little agreement, however, on a fundamental matter – what the word ‘homelessness’ ... -
Christian v R on S 128A(1) Crimes Act 1961
This article concerns section 128A(1) of the New Zealand Crimes Act 1961, which specifies the various factual circumstances that do not constitute consent to sexual activity for the purposes of sexual violence offences. ... -
Capturing realities of informal housing in Aotearoa/New Zealand : implications for health and wellbeing
Research shows population health outcomes are inextricably linked to a range of social indicators, with poor housing (along with lower levels of income, educational attainment and social connectedness) associated with ... -
Making health equity count: Incorporating health equity for Māori into cost-utility analyses
Objective The New Zealand health system has a number of objectives including reducing disparities in health for Māori and improving total population health. Despite this there are stark inequalities in health status for ... -
Motivational Interviewing for adolescent engagement in group trans-diagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy: A randomised clinical trial
Background. Anxiety and mood disorders are prevalent, chronic and highly comorbid in adolescence, with detrimental personal, societal and economic outcomes. Given the high rates of attrition and limited resources available ... -
The cost-effectiveness of fixed-dose combinations for preventive cardiovascular pharmacotherapy
Background: Pharmaceutical non-adherence as a consequence of large pill burdens is a noted issue in the management of cardiovascular disease risk (CVD), particularly for populations with high CVD risk or with coexisting ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and intentions of general practitioners and practice nurses and Christchurch and HPV and HPV vaccines
Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common sexually transmitted infection (STI) and nearly all cervical cancers are causally related to infections by HPV. Gardasil®, a quadrivalent HPV vaccine, is now on the ...