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The Health of Resettled Refugee Children: a Modified Systematic Review 2001-2009

Beauchamp, Jessica Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Background: New Zealand regularly accepts refugee children and their families for resettlement. Refugees as a population have been reported previously as having high health needs in resettlement. A search for current ...
How Discourses Stifle the Primary Health Care Strategy's Intent to Reduce Health Inequalities

Clissold, Carolyn M (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

New Zealand’s Primary Health Care Strategy (PHCS) has a stated commitment to defined populations who suffer disproportionately from ill health. This thesis examines whether some prevailing discourses actually decrease the ...
An Innovation in Primary Mental Health Care: The Mid Valley Well-Being Service

Pack, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

In 2004-5 a new primary health organisation (PHO) project was established that aimed to improve access to equitable health care for the residents of three suburban areas of Lower Hutt, Wellington serviced by three medical ...
Nursing Care of the Chronically Critically ill: An Exploratory Descriptive Study

Butt, Anne Rosamond (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Background:There is an emerging group of intensive care unit (ICU) patients known as the chronically critically ill (CCI). This patient group is steadily increasing worldwide (Nelson et al., 2004).No published literature ...
Over the Great Wall: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of the Experiences and Preferences of Chinese Immigrant Families when Receiving Hospice Services in New Zealand

Hathaway, Joanna Clare (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis discusses the background, processes, findings and recommendations of a qualitative descriptive study to explore and describe the experiences and preferences of Chinese immigrant families when receiving hospice ...
Quality of Life among Dialysis Patients in United Arab Emirates

Ayoub, Abdelbasit Mohamad Abdelhadi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Background: Quality of Life (QOL) has emerged as an important parameter for evaluating the quality of health care for patients with renal failure. The QOL of dialysis patients in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has not ...
"Sidelined": Family Caregiver's Experience of the Emergency Department: Insights from Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's Disease

Ridley, Sandra Roberta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Older patients with a cognitive deficit, such as seen in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), have not been extensively researched in ED. Often patients with AD are accompanied by a familiar person such as a family caregiver when ...