Public Health - Wellington
Recent Deposits
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Do young adults make informed choices about smoking?
When lobbying against tobacco control policies, tobacco companies have claimed that people who smoke make an “informed adult choice”. Although in the past most smokers were children when they started to smoke, in recent ... -
Individual and collective action for healthy rental housing in New Zealand: an historical and contemporary study
Substandard, insecure, and unaffordable housing affects health, contributing to the spread of infectious disease, susceptibility to respiratory illness, and to feelings of stress and anxiety. In New Zealand, people who ... -
Cancer in the Context of Severe Mental Illness in New Zealand: An Epidemiological Study
Background Experience of severe mental illness is associated with poor physical health and premature death. This issue has received little research attention in New Zealand. This thesis explores the burden of cancer amongst ... -
Known unknowns: Evidence of health co-benefits of decarbonising the transport sector
Theory and modelling studies suggest that some interventions to decarbonise emissions in the transport sector can, in addition to the long-term benefits from contributing to stabilising the global climate, have substantial ... -
The Settlement Experiences of Kiribati Migrants Living in New Zealand
This thesis explores the settlement experiences of Kiribati migrants and their families living in New Zealand. In depth qualitative interviews were carried out with a group of Kiribati migrants to elicit data on the main ... -
Casting a long shadow: the role of household crowding on Helicobacter pylori infection, and excess stomach cancer incidence among Māori and Pacific people
INTRODUCTION: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is predominantly acquired in childhood and persists as a chronic infection in the stomach. H. pylori has been linked with household crowding and is an important causal factor ...