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The impact of an increase in excise tax on the retail price of tobacco in New Zealand

Marsh, L.; Cameron, C.; Quigg, R.; Hoek, J.; Doscher, Crile; McGee, R.; Sullivan, T. (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2016-07)

Background In 2010, the New Zealand (NZ) government introduced an annual 10% tobacco excise tax increase. We examined retailers' adherence to recommended retail prices (RRP), and whether the RRP included the full tax ...

Governance structure and public health provision

Sheard, David John; Clydesdale, Gregory M.; Maclean, Gillis A. C. (Emerald, 2019)

Purpose - A key question in the provision of public health concerns how that provision is governed. The purpose of this paper is to examine the governance structure of a public health board and its perceived impact on the ...

Long-term effectiveness of the New Zealand Green Prescription primary health care exercise initiative

Hamlin, Michael J.; Yule, Elise; Elliot, Catherine; Stoner, L.; Kathiravel, Y. (Elsevier on behalf of the Royal Society for Public Health, 2016-11)

The rising incidence of non-communicable diseases in western countries is being driven by poor lifestyle choices, including increasingly inadequate physical activity. The aim of this study was to quantify the effectiveness ...

The physical and biochemical effects of pre-rigor high pressure processing of beef

Morton, James D.; Lee, Hannah Y.; Pearson, R. G.; Bickerstaffe, Roy (Elsevier, 2018-09-01)

High pressure processing (HPP) of pre-rigor longissimus thoracis (strip loin) from prime and bull animals substantially decreased the shear force and improved consumer eating attributes of the final meat product. The ...

Fitness and fatness are both associated with cardiometabolic risk in preadolescents

Stoner, L.; Pontzer, H.; Barone Gibbs, B.; Moore, J. B.; Castro, N.; Skidmore, P.; Lark, S.; Williams, M. A.; Hamlin, Michael J.; Faulkner, J. (Elsevier, 2020-02)

Objective: To determine the associations between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and fatness (overweight-obesity) with cardiometabolic disease risk among preadolescent children. Study design: This cross-sectional study ...

Diverse novel mesorhizobia nodulate New Zealand native Sophora species

Tan, H. W.; Heenan, P. B.; De Meyer, S. E.; Willems, A.; Andrews, Mitchell (Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Urban and Fischer, 2015-03)

© 2014 Elsevier GmbH. Forty eight rhizobial isolates from New Zealand (NZ) native Sophora spp. growing in natural ecosystems were characterised. Thirty eight isolates across five groups showed greatest similarity to ...

Perception of quality and complexity in wine and their links to varietal typicality: An investigation involving Pinot noir wine and professional tasters

Parr, Wendy V.; Grose, C.; Hedderley, D.; Medel Maraboli, M.; Masters, O.; Dias Araujo, Leandro; Valentin, D. (Elsevier on behalf of the Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST), 2020-11)

Quality and complexity are abstract terms employed frequently to describe a wine’s overall attributes. In the present study, we investigated: (i) attributes driving wine professionals’ judgments of quality and complexity ...

Effect of adjunctive single high-dose vitamin D₃ on outcome of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalised adults: The VIDCAPS randomised controlled trial

Slow, Sandra-Marie M.; Epton, M.; Storer, M.; Thiessen, R.; Lim, S.; Wong, J.; Chin, P.; Tovaranonte, P.; Pearson, J.; Chambers, S. T.; Murdoch, D. R.; Jardine, D.; Pithie, A.; Warren, C.; Faville, S.; Shankar, A.; Cameron, E.; Evans, T.; Mooi, P.; McDonald, C.; Chan, H.; Llewelyn, J.; Liu, M. (Springer Nature, 2018-09-14)

Low vitamin D status is associated with increased risk of pneumonia, greater disease severity and poorer outcome. However, no trials have examined the effect of adjunctive vitamin D therapy on outcomes in adults with ...

Enhancement of culture of Legionella longbeachae from respiratory samples by use of immunomagnetic separation and antimicrobial decontamination

Mohammadi, A.; Chambers, S. T.; Scott-Thomas, A.; Lewis, J. G.; Anderson, T.; Podmore, R.; Williman, J.; Murdoch, D.; Slow, Sandra-Marie M. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-11)

Legionella longbeachae is the commonest Legionella species identified in patients with community-acquired pneumonia in New Zealand. Isolation of the organism on culture is the gold standard for the diagnosis of Legionnaires ...

The burden of Legionnaires' disease in New Zealand (LegiNZ): A national surveillance study

Priest, P. C.; Slow, Sandra-Marie M.; Chambers, S. T.; Cameron, C. M.; Balm, M. N.; Beale, M. W.; Blackmore, T. K.; Burns, A. D.; Drinković, D.; Elvy, J. A.; Everts, R. J.; Hammer, D. A.; Huggan, P. J.; Mansell, C. J.; Raeder, V. M.; Roberts, S. A.; Robinson, M. C.; Sathyendran, V.; Taylor, S. L.; Thompson, A. W.; Ussher, J. E.; van der Linden, A. J.; Williams, M. J.; Podmore, R. G.; Anderson, T. P.; Barratt, K.; Mitchell, J. L.; Harte, D. J.; Hope, V. T.; Murdoch, D. R. (Elsevier, 2019-07)

Background: Legionnaires' disease is under-diagnosed because of inconsistent use of diagnostic tests and uncertainty about whom to test. We assessed the increase in case detection following large-scale introduction of ...