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Evaluation of Campus Watch: a community-based initiative to reduce alcohol-related harm and social disorder in a university setting
Background: The total social cost of alcohol-related harm in New Zealand is as high as $5 billion annually. In New Zealand and other high income countries, young people are at a greater risk of alcohol-related harm from ...
Proton Pump Inhibitors and Interstitial Nephritis
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Background
When the research described in this thesis was initiated, twenty years of published case reports strongly suggested an association between proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and interstitial nephritis. ...
Parental influence on the driving experiences of newly licensed young drivers: New Zealand Drivers Study
Motor vehicle crashes are responsible for one in three deaths in young people, aged 15-24 years, in high-income countries including New Zealand. From an international perspective, New Zealand has consistently had one of ...
The development and implementation of a family and home-based pilot programme for preventing child obesity in Pacific families in Dunedin, New Zealand
Obesity in childhood has physical, psychological and social consequences that impact on health and quality of life. While there is a need for obesity prevention and treatment programmes amongst all New Zealanders, the need ...
Cultural Competence Training for Health Researchers
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate, within an Aotearoa/New Zealand context, the need for, approach to and effectiveness of cultural competence training for health researchers. Although there have been programmes ...
Impact of whole population pneumococcal vaccination on pneumococcal carriage in infants in the first 8 weeks of life; a randomised controlled trial in The Gambia
Abstract: Background: Pneumococcal diseases are responsible for over 1 million deaths every year and most of these are children in sub-Saharan Africa. The 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has recently been ...
Acute diarrhoea in children in rural Gambia: Knowledge, attitude and practice, aetiology, risk factors and consequences among children less than five years of age
Background
Diarrhoea is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity among under-five year old children worldwide and the greatest burden of the disease is in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly half of the approximately 9 million ...
Acute care mass emergency preparedness in New Zealand and the Sultanate of Oman: An international comparative analysis
Background
Mass emergencies are growing globally. They are frequent and cause significant human and economic loss. New Zealand and the Sultanate of Oman have suffered from devastating mass emergencies including the Canterbury ...
A Case Study of Industrial Injury Reduction: New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited
Research aim: To assess the safety performance of New Zealand Aluminium SmeltersLimited (NZAS), 1971-2011. Research objectives sought 1) to quantify the NZAS safety improvement, and 2) to describe interventions used to ...
Employment among Schoolchildren and its Associations with Adult Substance Use and Psychological Wellbeing
Involvement in paid employment by schoolchildren is common in both developed and developing countries. Consequently, there has been considerable interest in assessing the potential long-term effects associated with such ...