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HIV epidemiology and behavioural surveillance among men who have sex with men in New Zealand
AIMS: HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) in New Zealand increased from the year 2001. The aim of the thesis was to improve understandings of the causes of the increase, in order to inform HIV prevention ...
Parental Understanding of the Recent Amendments to Section 59 of the Crimes Act: A Pilot Study
Introduction: The Recent amendments to Section 59 of the Crimes Act were ushered into legislation on May 16 2007 alongside an unprecedented level of public debate. This legislative change was largely in response to New ...
Practitioner-researcher Imaginations: Teaching Social Research to Health Science Undergraduates
Background: Health practitioners’ use of research in clinical practice is a requirement of evidence based practice. However, the medical and educational literature laments the gap between research and practice. There are ...
Students First and Nurturing Networks: Visualising Positive Futures for New Zealand Secondary Students
Why should we place students first? This article engages with this question through an examination of New Zealand's first secondary school nurture group at Linwood College in Christchurch. We combine practitioner, theorist ...
Handling Uncertainty: Standard and Local Practices in the Case of Libido and Contraception in Evidence-Based Decision Making
This paper draws from a qualitative study of interviews with 14 health practitioners to explore the use of reproductive health guidelines in contraception consultations. An aim of standardised guidelines is to encourage ...
Bricolage and Bodies of Knowledge: Exploring Consumer Responses to Controversy about the Third Generation Oral Contraceptive Pill
This article explores a small selection of contraceptive consumers’ accounts about the recent third generation oral contraceptive (3GOC) controversy in Aotearoa New Zealand and their responses to it. This article argues ...
An evaluation of a community-based multidisciplinary intervention for at-risk youth
This study aimed to examine the efficacy of a multidisciplinary truancy intervention based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Participants were clients of the Community Intervention Project (CIP) who had received an initial needs ...
Spirituality in New Zealand hospice care
Contemporary spirituality, characterized by ontic fragility like no other time in history, impacts on the death zeitgeist. Contemporary dying is often marked by pain, shame, anxiety, uncertainty and technological complexity, ...
Educating girls for a healthier Cambodia: The impact of education on girls' health knowledge, attitudes, and practices
Introduction
In recent decades, studies from developing countries have shown that maternal education is strongly correlated with child health. Many government agencies and non-governmental organisations have used this ...
The free child health care scheme : implications for New Zealand general practice
Background: The Free Child Health Care Scheme was introduced on July 1, 1997. It provided increased government subsidies for general practice consultations and fully subsidised doctor-prescribed medicines for children aged ...