Successful Mäori Public Health Initiatives in Aotearoa/New Zealand

This article argues that the expansion of shelter and welfare provisions for the homeless can lead to increased criminalization of homeless people in public spaces. First, I document how repression of people experiencing homelessness by the police in San Francisco neighborhoods increased immediately after the opening of new shelters. Second, I reveal how shelter beds are used as a privileged tool of the police to arrest, cite, and confiscate property of the unhoused, albeit in the guise of sanitary and public health initiatives. I conclude by considering how shelters increasingly function as complaint-oriented “services,” aimed at addressing the interests of residents, businesses, and politicians, rather than the needs of those unhoused.

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Locking down behavioural compliance: The role of emotion and emotion regulation in breaches of COVID-19 mitigation measures in Aotearoa New Zealand

Journal of Health Psychology ◽

10.1177/13591053211029994 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 135910532110299

Author(s):

Terise Broodryk ◽

Kealagh Robinson

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Young Adults ◽

New Zealand ◽

Health Behaviours ◽

Mitigation Measures ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

High Knowledge ◽

The Cost ◽

Insight Into

Although anxiety and worry can motivate engagement with COVID-19 preventative behaviours, people may cognitively reframe these unpleasant emotions, restoring wellbeing at the cost of public health behaviours. New Zealand young adults ( n = 278) experiencing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown reported their worry, anxiety, reappraisal and lockdown compliance. Despite high knowledge of lockdown policies, 92.5% of participants reported one or more policy breaches ( M = 2.74, SD = 1.86). Counter to predictions, no relationships were found between anxiety or worry with reappraisal or lockdown breaches. Findings highlight the importance of targeting young adults in promoting lockdown compliance and offer further insight into the role of emotion during a pandemic.

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Advancing precision public health using human genomics: examples from the field and future research opportunities

Genome Medicine ◽

10.1186/s13073-021-00911-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Megan C. Roberts ◽

Alison E. Fohner ◽

Latrice Landry ◽

Dana Lee Olstad ◽

Amelia K. Smit ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Precision Medicine ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Public Health Research ◽

Future Research ◽

Human Genomics ◽

Precision Public Health ◽

Genomics Research ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Public Health Initiatives

AbstractPrecision public health is a relatively new field that integrates components of precision medicine, such as human genomics research, with public health concepts to help improve population health. Despite interest in advancing precision public health initiatives using human genomics research, current and future opportunities in this emerging field remain largely undescribed. To that end, we provide examples of promising opportunities and current applications of genomics research within precision public health and outline future directions within five major domains of public health: biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health policy and health services, and social and behavioral science. To further extend applications of genomics within precision public health research, three key cross-cutting challenges will need to be addressed: developing policies that implement precision public health initiatives at multiple levels, improving data integration and developing more rigorous methodologies, and incorporating initiatives that address health equity. Realizing the potential to better integrate human genomics within precision public health will require transdisciplinary efforts that leverage the strengths of both precision medicine and public health.

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Health(y) education: A critical analysis of the role of public health regulation in and on tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand

Policy Futures in Education ◽

10.1177/1478210321995013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147821032199501

Author(s):

Susan Shaw ◽

Keith Tudor

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

New Zealand ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Tertiary Education ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Educational Design ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Public Health Regulation

This article offers a critical analysis of the role of public health regulation on tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand and, specifically, the requirements and processes of Responsible Authorities under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act for the accreditation and monitoring of educational institutions and their curricula (degrees, courses of studies, or programmes). It identifies and discusses a number of issues concerned with the requirements of such accreditation and monitoring, including, administrative requirements and costs, structural requirements, and the implications for educational design. Concerns with the processes of these procedures, namely the lack of educational expertise on the part of the Responsible Authorities, and certain manifested power dynamics are also highlighted. Finally, the article draws conclusions for changing policy and practice.

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Evaluating the impact of public health initiatives on trends in fecal occult blood test participation in Ontario

BMC Cancer ◽

10.1186/1471-2407-14-537 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Gladys N Honein-AbouHaidar ◽

Linda Rabeneck ◽

Lawrence F Paszat ◽

Rinku Sutradhar ◽

Jill Tinmouth ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Blood Test ◽

Fecal Occult Blood Test ◽

Occult Blood ◽

Fecal Occult Blood ◽

Occult Blood Test ◽

Fecal Occult ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

The Impact ◽

Public Health Initiatives

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Transforming a global order in New Zealand to reduce health inequities in service provision

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1349 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

E Rawson

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

New Zealand ◽

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Best Practice ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Health Inequities ◽

Medical Emergency ◽

Major Work ◽

Health Initiatives

Abstract St John has been providing service in New Zealand for nearly 140 years since its arrival. It has now close to 4000 staff and nearly 20000 Members and over 8500 volunteers. In New Zealand the major work of St John is its Ambulance service providing front line first responders to crash, medical emergency and other life-threatening situations. St John New Zealand also provides a number of 'Community Health' initiatives focused on strengthening communities and prevention. In recent years St John has recognised that they have not engaged well with Indigenous communities and that their organisation in New Zealand must become skilled and relevant in addressing the needs of the Indigenous people of New Zealand, as they suffer the greater burden of disease and illness than any other population in the country. St John NZ Community and Health Services are embarking on a process of transformation through re-orienting its culture and practice by adopting Public Health approaches and an equity lens over all its programmes. They also have committed to understanding and using Indigenous knowledge to support this re-orientation to most effectively engage and implement programmes that will reduce Indigenous health inequities. This presentation will describe the process by which they will be implementing their strategy for change and highlight best practice for working with Indigenous communities. Key messages Indigenous Knowledge is key to addressing Indigenous Health inequities. Mainstream Public Health can learn from Indigenous Public Health approaches.

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Effectiveness of a community-based Tai Chi program and implications for public health initiatives

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ◽

10.1016/j.apmr.2004.10.020 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 86 (4) ◽

pp. 619-625 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Alice Y. Jones ◽

Elizabeth Dean ◽

Rhonda J. Scudds

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Tai Chi ◽

Community Based ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Public Health Initiatives

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From Prussia to China: Japanese Colonial Medicine and Gotō Shinpei’s Combination of Medical Police and Local Self-Administration

Medical History ◽

10.1017/s0025727300005378 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 343-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Christos Lynteris

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Colonial Medicine ◽

Republican China ◽

Self Administration ◽

Japanese Colonialism ◽

Health Initiatives ◽

Historical Investigation ◽

Key Issues ◽

Japanese Colonial ◽

Public Health Initiatives

Recent historical investigation into the rise of ‘biopolitical modernity’ in China has shed some surprising light. While it was long thought that British public health initiatives entered China via Hong Kong, the recent work of Ruth Rogaski, Philippe Chemouilli and others has established that it was actually early Japanese colonialism that played the crucial role. It was the Meiji Empire's hygiene reform projects in Taiwan and Manchuria that provided the model for Republican China. Curiously overlooked by medical historians has been one of the major early works of Japanese public health that directly inspired and guided this colonial medical enterprise. This was that of the Japanese health reformer and colonial officer, Gotō Shinpei (1857–1929), and it was undertaken in Munich as a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Max von Pettenkofer. In this article, I focus on the way in which Shinpei dealt in his thesis with the relations between centralisation and local self-administration as one of the key issues facing hygienic modernisation and colonial biopolitical control.

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