August 2017

09 Aug Built environmental correlates of older adults’ total physical activity and walking: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Posted at 09:45h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

The aim of this study was to  systematically review and quantify findings on the built environmental and how this correlates to older adults’ physical activity(PA) and to investigate differences by type of PA and environmental attribute measurement. One hundred articles from peer-reviewed and grey literature examining built environmental attributes related...

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09 Aug Five Meals for a Family of Six for $50

Posted at 09:19h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

All FreshChoice supermarkets in West Auckland have changed their aisles to make shopping for healthy food easier and they also provide recipe ideas for large families cooking on a budget. Each week at FreshChoice in Ranui and Glen Eden, a new recipe book appears in the ‘Local...

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09 Aug Medical Students’ Awareness of the Links between Physical Activity and Health

Posted at 08:24h in Research by Alison Pask

The effectiveness of physicians in providing advice to patients about physical activity (PA) is influenced by their own understanding of the links between PA and health, as well as by their own PA habits. Th is study involved pre-clinical medical students in New Zealand, examining...

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08 Aug Free start up Vegetable Gardens to Reconnect Community

Posted at 11:37h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Over one hundred families across West Auckland received free start up vegetable gardens and took part in a two day workshop on how to grow their own food and compost as part of My Backyard Garden Project. Healthy Families Waitakere share how they aim to increase the...

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08 Aug Risk of stomach cancer in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Māori population based case-control study

Posted at 10:34h in Research by Alison Pask

Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, experience disproportionate rates of stomach cancer, compared to non-Māori. The overall aim of the study was to better understand the reasons for the considerable excess of stomach cancer in Māori and to identify priorities for prevention. Māori stomach...

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08 Aug Promoting Active Travel to School: a systematic review (2010–2016)

Posted at 08:37h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

  This review has provided a detailed analysis of AST interventions published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and 2016. Following systematic literature review procedures’ 18 AST interventions were identified and subsequently analysed. The main findings of our study are:   Theory utilization in AST interventions published between...

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04 Aug Inactivity too High in Australia

Posted at 11:03h in Research by Alison Pask

Trends in prevalence of leisure time physical activity and inactivity: results from Australian National Health Surveys 1989 to 2011 Objective: To examine trends in leisure time physical activity and inactivity in Australians aged 15 years or older from 1989 to 2011. Three in five adult Australians are not...

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04 Aug World Breastfeeding Week 1-7 August

Posted at 08:49h in Healthy babies and children by Alison Pask

Breastfeeding rates in New Zealand are increasing slowly, according to Plunket data released during World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August). Plunket says in 2015 and in 2016, 87.5% of babies aged between 2 and 6 weeks received breast milk, a figure 1.5% higher than in 2013 and...

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04 Aug It’s Good for me and my Whanau

Posted at 08:32h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Marae participation as a springboard for oranga The Atiawa ki Whakarongotai Charitable Trust recently instigated qualitative research to better understand the notion of iwi connectedness and the link with oranga. This paper reports of the findings of that research, which examined how connectedness is understood by...

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01 Aug Overweight but unseen: a review of the underestimation of weight status and a visual normalization theory

Posted at 15:30h in Research by Alison Pask

Although overweight and obesity are widespread across most of the developed world, a considerable body of research has now accumulated, which suggests that adiposity often goes undetected. A substantial proportion of individuals with overweight or obesity do not identify they are overweight, and large numbers...

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