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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...