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A preliminary investigation of the stability of Geographically-Weighted Regression
This paper describes preliminary work analysing the stability of parameter coefficient estimates for Geographically-Weighted Regression (GWR). Based on a large dataset (35721 points) various random samplings of this data ...
Spatial variation in the association between neighbourhood deprivation and access to alcohol outlets
Background: People who live in poor areas suffer higher mortality than those living in wealthier areas. People who live in poor areas in New Zealand have better access to alcohol and this association appears to vary ...
Health and support for students
This thesis compares the self-reported physical and mental health status, utilisation and satisfaction with Student Health Services, of domestic and international students in Health Sciences First Year and the Health ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Tertiary student hazardous drinking : epidemiology and development of a brief intervention trial
The misuse of alcohol is one of New Zealand's major social and health concerns. The cost of alcohol misuse, after adjustment for the economic benefits of consumption, was estimated at $16.1 billion in 1990,4% of gross ...
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 ...
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 ...