Faculty of Health
Recent submissions
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Public Health Protocols/Guidelines for Masjids and Islamic Centres
(2021)Please find in this a series of COVID-19 related safety documents that we recommend to be used by all Mosque Committees for the safe reopening and functioning of Mosques. FIANZ has consulted many experts and stakeholders ... -
The effectiveness of a multi-pronged psycho-social intervention among people with mental health and epilepsy problems-a pre-post prospective cohort study set in North India
(Maad Rayan Publishing Company, 2021)Background: In low-and middle-income settings, many people with mental health problems cannot or do not access psychiatric services. Few studies of people with epilepsy and mental problems have evaluated the effectiveness ... -
New Zealand cricket injury analysis based on 12 years of Accident Compensation Corporation data
(BMJ, 2022)Objectives To provide epidemiological data for cricket injuries in New Zealand. Methods A retrospective analytical review using epidemiological cricket data obtained from the national Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) ... -
Exploring the landscape of relationships and sexuality education in primary schools in New Zealand
(2023)From Introduction: Learning about sex, relationships, and sexuality in education contexts is a perennially controversial issue, no matter where in the world. Is it the role of the parents? Is it the role of the school? ... -
A cross-tabulated analysis for the influence of climate conditions on the incidence of dengue fever in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia during 2006–2009
(2022)Objective: Increased temperature and humidity across the world and emergence of mosquito-borne diseases, notably dengue both continue to present public health problems, but their relationship is not clear as conflicting ... -
New Zealand secondary school teachers’ perspectives on teaching Relationships and Sexuality Education
(UC, Family Planning and NZHEA, 2022)Best practice relationships and sexuality education (RSE) increases young people’s knowledge, critical thinking, and positive attitudes related to sexual and reproductive health and relationships (UNESCO, 2018). The ... -
Adolescents and oral health service utilisation in Canterbury, New Zealand : a geospatial cross-sectional study.
(2022)Objective: Non-utilisation of dental care during adolescence can result in poorer oral health and subsequently higher expenditures on dental services. This study examined the geospatial and epidemiological factors associated ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of function-based behavioural sleep interventions for the treatment of anxiety related sleep disturbance in autistic youth
(2022)The prevalence of anxiety disorders, and sleep disturbance is elevated among autistic youth. However the ways in which anxiety, autism characteristics, and sleep disturbance interact with each other, in the context of an ... -
Electronic cigarette use among university students aged 18-24 years in New Zealand: Results of a 2018 national cross-sectional survey
(BMJ, 2020)Objectives: To examine electronic cigarette use, reasons for use and perceptions of harm among university students. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: University students across New Zealand. Methods: We ... -
Assessment of the feasibility of opportunistic screening for oral potentially malignant disorders and oral cancer at dental colleges in India : a public health initiative from Bengaluru.
(2022)Introduction Oral cancer (OC) is a cancer that is preventable by controlling the risk factors and treating the precancerous stages. However, it remains a global problem, principally due to tobacco and alcohol use. In ... -
Examining parental predictors of young children’s problematic screen media use.
(2022)There is a rapid growth in children’s media use, which raise parents’ concern over time. Nowadays children can access to media at an early stage either actively or passively. Parenting practices behaviours start to intervene ... -
PolySaturated : illuminating the experiences of Polynesian athletes in professional rugby league.
(2022)Polynesian athletes represent almost 50% of the Australian National Rugby League’s (NRL) top tier player contracts. The proportion of Polynesian professional rugby league players has trended upward from the mid-1990s and ... -
Attitudes towards the New Zealand Government's Smokefree 2025 goal associated with smoking and vaping in university students aged 18 to 24 years: Results of a 2018 national cross-sectional survey
(BMJ, 2020)Objective: In March 2011, New Zealand (NZ) launched an aspirational goal to reduce smoking prevalence to 5% or less by 2025 (Smokefree 2025 goal). Little is known about university students' awareness of, support for and ... -
Successful ageing and trajectories of health among New Zealand older adults.
(2022)Background The goal of this thesis is to explain and examine successful ageing using disease conditions, functional capacity, life engagement, and health-related quality of life using longitudinal data, and to examine ... -
Mental health screening for children in care using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Brief Assessment Checklists: Guidance from three national studies
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Although children residing in statutory out-of-home care and those adopted from care are more likely than not to have mental health difficulties requiring clinical intervention or support, their difficulties often remain ... -
A narrative review of stability and change in the mental health of children who grow up in family-based out-of-home care
(SAGE Publications, 2019)The present review sought to address the following questions: What evidence is there that long-term, family-based out-of-home care (OOHC) has a general, population-wide effect on children’s mental health such that it is ... -
A narrative review of mental and relational health interventions for children in family-based out-of-home care
(Wiley, 2021)The present article reviews the evidence base for psychosocial interventions provided to children in family-based out-of-home care that seek to improve children’s mental health, felt security, and/or the quality, strength ... -
Exposure to particulate matter and lung cancer survival among adults in New Zealand.
(2022)Introduction: Epidemiological and toxicological evidence has indicated that PM10 and PM2.5 exposure increase the incidence and mortality of lung cancer. It is possible that PM10 and PM2.5 exposure also reduce length of ... -
Alignment of Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder With Complex Developmental Symptomatology
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Cluster analysis of maltreatment-related mental health symptoms manifested by adolescents in foster care suggest the absence of an underlying taxonomic structure. To test this further, we investigated alignment between ... -
Mental Health Symptom Profiles of Adolescents in Foster Care
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)The article describes an investigation of the nature, patterns and complexity of carer-reported mental health symptoms for a population sample (N = 230) of adolescents (age 12–17) placed in long-term foster and kinship ...