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    Cancer in the Context of Severe Mental Illness in New Zealand: An Epidemiological Study 

    Cunningham, Ruth
    Background Experience of severe mental illness is associated with poor physical health and premature death. This issue has received little research attention in New Zealand. This thesis explores the burden of cancer amongst ...
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    Behind the front desk: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the talk of General Practice Receptionists about health inequities 

    Manhire-Heath, Rowan Kathleen
    General Practice Receptionists (GPRs) are an under-researched and undervalued group of healthcare workers, both in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally, evidenced by the limited data on—and research involving—GPRs. As ...
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    Individual and collective action for healthy rental housing in New Zealand: an historical and contemporary study 

    Chisholm, Elinor
    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 ...
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    Statistical and Policy Analysis of Large-scale Public Health Interventions 

    Preval, Nicholas
    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 ...
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    Cultivating health: community gardening as a public health intervention 

    Earle, Margaret Dora
    Internationally and locally, interest in community gardening is growing. It is being seen as part of the solution to address local, national and global challenges that range from poor nutrition and food insecurity to ...
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    Home truths and cool admissions: New Zealand housing attributes and excess winter hospitalisation 

    Telfar Barnard, Lucy Frances
    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. ...
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    “Gee my account is in credit!” Qualitative component of the Warm Homes Pilot Study 

    O'Sullivan, Kimberley Clare
    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 ...
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    Casting a long shadow: the role of household crowding on Helicobacter pylori infection, and excess stomach cancer incidence among Māori and Pacific people 

    McDonald, Andrea M.
    INTRODUCTION: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is predominantly acquired in childhood and persists as a chronic infection in the stomach. H. pylori has been linked with household crowding and is an important causal factor ...
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    Trends in cancer survival by ethnic and socioeconomic group, New Zealand, 1991-2004 

    Soeberg, Matthew John
    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 ...
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    Surveillance gaps and System Cracks: An investigation of possible ways to improve rheumatic fever surveillance in New Zealand 

    Oliver, Jane Rachel
    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. ...
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