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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 ... -
Power and Control: A multiphase mixed methods investigation of prepayment metering and fuel poverty in New Zealand.
Fuel poverty, (the inability to afford adequate household energy services, including healthy indoor temperatures) is a significant public health problem currently estimated to affect 25% of households in New Zealand and ... -
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 ... -
Promoting childhood nutrition through primary schools: A complex analysis of policy options
The negative social, educational and health consequences of obesity for children have been well documented, with downstream impacts on chronic disease for adults. A diet high in energy-dense nutrient-poor foods, and low ... -
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. ... -
Rich and well, poor and sick? The relationship between income and self-rated health from the New Zealand household panel Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE)
Background This thesis investigates the relationship between income and health in New Zealand adults, using longitudinal data from the household panel Survey of Family, Income and Employment, 2002 to 2005. Evidence for ... -
Serious skin infections in New Zealand children
Skin infections are a common and widespread ailment among children. While these infections have generally been considered benign, the number requiring overnight hospitalisation for treatment, termed ‘serious skin infections’, ... -
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 ... -
Statistical and Policy Analysis of Large-scale Public Health Interventions
Background: The outcome evaluation of large-scale public health interventions is an important part of the rational policy cycle. Timely outcome evaluation can inform decisions by policy makers on whether to continue, modify ... -
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 ... -
Surveillance gaps and System Cracks: An investigation of possible ways to improve rheumatic fever surveillance in New Zealand
Background: Rheumatic fever (RF) and its sequela rheumatic heart disease (RHD) occur at unusually high levels in New Zealand. A disease of social deprivation, RF now almost exclusively affects Māori and Pacific peoples. ... -
The burden and management of water related diseases in Maldives
The study broadly explores water-related disease burden, encompassing drinking-water supply, sanitation, hygiene, climate change and the management of water resources in the Maldives. There have been few studies undertaken ... -
The Burden and Risk Factors for Death from the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic amongst the New Zealand Military Forces of World War One
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Economic Benefits of Food Safety Regulation
In this thesis I examine food safety regulation of production of poultry for the domestic market (Case Study 1) and, in less detail, the sale of New Zealand beef to the USA (Case Study 2). Regulation brings both benefits ... -
The effect of anti-poverty and in-work tax credits for families on self-rated health in parents in New Zealand: A cohort study of 6,900 participants of the Survey of Family, Income and Employment
Background Some social protection interventions are promoted as policy tools for addressing the social determinants of health to improve individual and population health and health equity. However, there is considerable ... -
The Effects of Tobacco Graphic Health Warnings on Smokers
In 2007, the New Zealand government announced a change in the legislation on tobacco on-pack warning labels, requiring text-based warning labels to be replaced by graphic health warnings (GHWs). According to this new ... -
The Epidemiology of Pertussis and Timeliness of Pertussis Immunisation in New Zealand
Introduction Despite increasing immunisation coverage in recent years, pertussis remains a leading cause of immunisation preventable disease in New Zealand. The current pertussis epidemic in New Zealand began in August ... -
The extent and nature of children’s real-time exposure to alcohol marketing using wearable cameras and GPS devices
Alcohol places substantial financial, physical, social and psychological burdens on society. There is mounting evidence that childhood exposure to alcohol marketing increases the likelihood children will begin drinking, ...