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Transport and well-being among older adolescents
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Discussions of teenage transport issues are typically framed from the perspective of crash risk and physical health. This research addresses transport in the context of well-being, from the Positive Youth ...
Characteristics of road traffic injuries and potential risk factors in Oman
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Globally, road traffic injuries have increased by almost 46% in the twenty years prior to 2010. This makes road traffic crashes (RTC) the tenth leading cause of death in the world and the leading cause of death ...
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 ...
Activism for health: An ethical obligation of public health practice
Stagnating progress on public health issues such as child poverty has led to increasing calls for the public health workforce to change their mode of political engagement. This thesis explored one alternative method of ...
How Do District Health Boards Respond to and Use the Serious and Sentinel Events Report?
This thesis focuses on serious and sentinel event reporting in New Zealand. It considers how District Health Boards (DHBs) utilise the Serious and Sentinel Events (SSE) report, which is produced by the Health Quality and ...
Infection control and latent tuberculosis infection in health care workers in Indonesia
Background: Health care workers (HCWs) and health care students (HCSs), especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are particularly vulnerable to being infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The extent of ...
Spirituality, Healthcare and Medical Education: Views from New Zealand Medical Students
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Spiritual care is becoming increasingly recognised as important for achieving better health outcomes as identified by patients, families of patients and healthcare professionals. However, spiritual care is not ...
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 ...
Trans Wretchedness Theory and disrupting the focus on negative health outcomes
The number of academic publications on transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse (TGD) health issues has been steadily increasing over the years. This would generally be an indicator that health science is gaining a ...
For Love, Not Money! A study of health-related decision making in a group of female healthcare assistants who work in residential aged care and who live in low-income households
Issues of social inequality have increasingly featured in public debate in New Zealand and around the world, as the widening gap between rich and poor, both within and across countries, is highlighted and becomes more ...