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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Energy-dense diets are associated with obesity, a major public health problem. High participation rates in sport suggest sports settings may be an ideal environment to influence food choices and promote healthy eating. Yet ...

A challenge facing researchers is to understand how neighbourhood ‘gets under the skin’, influencing the health and wellbeing of those who live there. There is mixed evidence, and increasingly sophisticated theoretical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...