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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, ... -
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 ... -
Travel time use on public transport: what passengers do and how it affects their wellbeing
Background: Public transport has health benefits for the environment and individuals. People walk to access public transport and there are proportionately fewer crashes and less pollution than with private cars. Yet transport ... -
Trends in cancer survival by ethnic and socioeconomic group, New Zealand, 1991-2004
Background This thesis aimed to understand trends and inequalities in cancer survival using relative survival and excess mortality rate analyses. The three research questions were: i) do non-Māori and higher socioeconomic ... -
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 ... -
Understanding parental influences on smoking uptake among Māori children: A mixed methods investigation
Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death world wide. In New Zealand reducing smoking rates is an important public health issue, particularly among Māori where smoking rates are almost double that compared to ... -
Working Together: Governance at the interface between primary care and public health
This thesis investigates governance processes at the intersection between primary care and public health. The way in which primary care and public health work together needs to change to respond to changing health need, ... -
“You just keep walking into the pen to get your next sheep...” An exploration of sheep shearer’s experiences and responses to heat in the sheep shearing industry.
Heat in workplaces is a hot topic due to the projected increase in global temperatures from anthropogenic climate change with workers being recently recognised as a vulnerable group due to excess heat exposure. New Zealand ...