Browsing Public Health - Wellington by Title
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Developing new comorbidity indices for cancer populations using administrative data
Background: Comorbidity has an important impact on cancer outcomes, but the optimal approach to measuring comorbidity at a population level has not been established. Aims: • To review evidence relating to the importance ... -
A dirty determinant of health: What is the role of public health units in reducing the inequitable effects of inadequate income on health and wellbeing?
This study examines the role regional public health units could play in contributing to reducing the inequitable effects inadequate income has on health and wellbeing. It also recommends appropriate steps for Wellington’s ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Ethnic equity in the management of child asthma: Developing and testing a primary care quality improvement tool.
Two of the key challenges for the New Zealand health system are improving quality and reducing inequities in health. My plan was to develop and test a quality improvement intervention for primary care to help close the ... -
Evaluating the Environmental and Social Determinants of Enteric Disease in New Zealand
Globally, enteric disease is a leading cause of illness and death. Projected climate change and agricultural intensification is expected to substantially influence zoonoses emergence and resurgence. New Zealand has high ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of the National Cervical Screening Program by calculation of the positive predictive value and standardized mortality rate
Cervical cancer is the 3rd commonest cancer occurring among women worldwide, behind breast and colorectal cancer. (Parkin et al. 1999) Screening via the use of cervical smears to detect preclinical disease has been successful ... -
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’ ... -
An exploratory study of Muslim women's attitudes towards and experiences of cervical screening
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide in women, yet the cervical screening test is able to detect precancerous cells, improving the prognosis. Internationally, Muslim women have been found to have poor ... -
Family-Centred Healing At Home: A Samoan Epistemology of Samoan Families’ Experiences of Home Dialysis and Home Detention in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Home dialysis and home detention are home-based public services increasingly used in Samoan households living in Aotearoa/New Zealand. They are cheaper than institutionally-provided hospital and correctional services and ... -
Food desert or food swamp? An in-depth exploration of neighbourhood food environments in Eastern Porirua and Whitby
Many programmes that aim to reduce the prevalence of diet-related disease have chosen to focus on individual behaviour change with little recognition of the influence of the environment. The aim of this thesis was to conduct ... -
“Gee my account is in credit!” Qualitative component of the Warm Homes Pilot Study
Fuel poverty, or the inability to heat one’s home to World Health Organisation recommended standards for less than 10% of household income, is a significant social and public health problem in New Zealand. Those particularly ... -
Grant schemes as enablers of local action: the example of the Nutrition Fund
Poor nutrition and unhealthy weight are major contributors to disease burden in New Zealand. As part of wider government action to address these issues, District Health Boards were funded to administer Nutrition Fund grants ... -
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 ... -
Health Outcomes and Costs of Referral for Elective Surgery: New Zealand 2003-2006
Background: Elective surgery is a major output of the health sector. For instance, in 2010/11 approximately 145,000 patients received elective surgery in New Zealand. This study uses data from the ‘Pathways to care and ... -
Health seeking and health related behaviour for type 2 diabetes mellitus among adults in an urban community in Tanzania
Early in the 20th century, diabetes mellitus was considered to be a rare medical condition in African countries, and mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the past 30 or 40 years however, the situation has changed. Diabetes ... -
Home truths and cool admissions: New Zealand housing attributes and excess winter hospitalisation
Background: The ratio of winter to non-winter mortality rates, or excess winter mortality (EWM), is higher in temperate countries, including New Zealand. Many studies suggest housing differences as a possible explanation. ...