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Journal articles on the topic "NZ Cities"
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Tordoff, June, Michael Bagge, Farina Ali, Samira Ahmed, Jie Ning Choong, Rowena Fu, Annie Joe, and Prasad Nishtala. "Older people's perceptions of prescription medicine costs and related costs: a pilot study in New Zealand." Journal of Primary Health Care 6, no. 4 (2014): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hc14295.
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INTRODUCTION: Older people tend to take more medicines and prescription medicine costs may influence medicine adherence. AIM: The aim of this pilot study was to identify older people's perceptions of prescription medicine costs and related costs in four major cities across New Zealand. METHODS: A questionnaire was administered to people aged 65 years and older visiting pharmacies in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin to identify their perceptions of costs relating to prescription medicines and related pharmacy and general practice services. Data were compared between cities and examined for associations between participants' views on costs and age, sex, income, ethnicity, number of medicines, and monthly cost. RESULTS: Participants (N=107) received a median of five prescription medicines (range 1–15), at a median cost of NZ$8.00 (range 0–55.30). Median part-charges for medicines only partly funded by the government were NZ$6.25 (range 0.60–100.00), and GP consultations ranged from NZ$0–60.00. Of the participants, 89 (83.2%) thought medicine costs and 63 (58.9%) thought GP consultation costs were reasonable. Participants with median monthly medicine costs of NZ$8.33–87.00 more commonly perceived medicines as expensive or very expensive (p=0.001, Fisher's exact test). DISCUSSION: Older people in this study mostly viewed their prescription medicines and related costs as reasonable; however, 17% and 41%, respectively, found medicines costs and GP consultation costs expensive. Larger, in-depth studies across New Zealand are needed to determine the sections of the population that find these costs expensive, and to explore how this might affect medicine adherence. KEYWORDS: Aged; community health services; costs and cost analysis; New Zealand; pharmaceutical preparations
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Skeaff, Sheila A., and Emily Lonsdale-Cooper. "Mandatory fortification of bread with iodised salt modestly improves iodine status in schoolchildren." British Journal of Nutrition 109, no. 6 (July 31, 2012): 1109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007114512003236.
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Iodine deficiency has re-emerged in many parts of the world including the UK, Australia and New Zealand (NZ). In 2009, the NZ government introduced the mandatory fortification of bread with iodised salt as a strategy to improve iodine intakes. The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of fortification on the iodine status of NZ schoolchildren. A school-based cluster survey was used to randomly select schools from two NZ cities. Children aged 8–10 years were administered a general questionnaire, and asked to provide a casual urine and finger-prick blood sample. The median urinary iodine concentration (UIC) of the children (n147) was 113 μg/l, which falls between 100 and 199 μg/l indicating adequate iodine status; 12 % of children had a UIC < 50 μg/l and 39 % had a UIC < 100 μg/l. The median serum thyroxine concentration was 115 nmol/l. The median serum thyroglobulin (Tg) concentration was 10·8 μg/l and falls in the 10·0–19·9 μg/l range indicative of mild iodine deficiency, suggesting that these children still had enlarged thyroid glands. When compared with the median UIC of 68 μg/l reported in the 2002 NZ Children's Nutrition Survey, the UIC of children in the present study had increased, which is probably caused by the addition of iodised salt to bread. However, the elevated concentration of Tg in these children suggests that the increase in UIC is not sufficient to ensure that thyroid volume has normalised. The fortification of other staple foods, in addition to bread, should be considered to ensure good iodine status in NZ children.
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Nesarnobari, S., W. Shahzad, and M. B. Jelodar. "The Status Quo of Prefabricated Housing: An investigation into New Zealand Construction Sector." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1101, no. 4 (November 1, 2022): 042014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/4/042014.
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Abstract The increase of population in large cities of New Zealand (NZ), propelled by the massive number of immigrants after COVID, has caused a shortage in housing supply. Prefabrication has been advocated as a potential solution to this problem. Its uptake in NZ is relatively low despite its benefits. So, building capacity and more capability are essential for the prefabricated housing (PH) supply chain (SC) by identifying obstacles and proposing methods to tackle them. This research aims to assess and map the SC for prefabricated housing projects (PHP) in NZ. The investigations include key industries, trades and skills in this construction system. For this purpose, a comprehensive analytical approach is followed, integrating bibliometric search and qualitative discussion: 1) recent PH research keywords, pros&cons; to identify factors limited PH sector to deliver NZ supply requirements 2) study gaps in PH sector 3) prefabricated construction research directions in the future. Results show lower uptake of prefabrication through SC and knowledge, negative perception, skill shortage, cost and finance, lack of coordination and communication, site operations, design shortage, and lack of design alteration to respond to site. Consequently, various influential factors hindering its uptake were discussed, and identifying the industries, parties and trades involved was performed.
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Freeman, Claire, Aviva Stein, Kathryn Hand, and Yolanda van Heezik. "City Children’s Nature Knowledge and Contact: It Is Not Just About Biodiversity Provision." Environment and Behavior 50, no. 10 (September 23, 2017): 1145–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916517732108.
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Much attention has been directed at the perceived decline in city children’s contact with nature. We used a child-centric approach to assess neighborhood nature knowledge in 187 children aged 9 to 11 years, from different socioeconomic and ethnic groups in three New Zealand cities. We evaluated the relative importance of social (independence, gender, social connections, deprivation, age) and environmental factors (biodiversity) in explaining variation in knowledge at a scale relevant to each child’s independent movements. Our biodiversity evaluation reflected the natural dimensions of the habitats where children interacted with nature. Generalized linear modeling identified ethnicity as having the strongest association with nature knowledge. Within each ethnic group, social factors were most important (independence, social connections, deprivation) except for Pākehā/NZ European children, where local biodiversity was most important. Enhancing biodiversity values of private green spaces (yards) would be effective in facilitating opportunities to experience nature, which is fundamental to supporting nature contact.
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MacMahon, Rohan, and Murray Milner. "Ultra-fast broadband in New Zealand: Progress Accelerating." Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 3, no. 4 (December 29, 2015): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v3n4.32.
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The New Zealand Government’s Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) initiative is now more than halfway completed. Pleasingly, deployment of Fibre To The Premises (FTTP) has tracked ahead of schedule over the last two years. As at September 2015, deployment was 56% complete, with over 800,000 households and businesses able to connect, equating to around 44% of the NZ population able to connect to an optic fibre broadband service. Communal deployment has been completed in 11 of the 35 eligible towns and cities, meaning fibre has been laid on public lands, enabling every household to order a UFB connection. A further eight towns/ cities are expected to be completed by June 2016. Uptake of UFB services is accelerating as Retail Service Providers (RSPs) increasingly see UFB as the right choice for themselves and their customers. Presently around 10,000 households and businesses connect every month. With over 130,000 connections in place as at September 2015, uptake is around one in 6, indicating that there is still a long way to go for New Zealanders to connect to improved broadband. Importantly, deployment to “priority” premises (businesses, schools and health facilities) is close to completion, and many of these customers report that UFB usage has helped them improve business productivity or service delivery. The goal for the UFB initiative is recognised as being delivered well by the New Zealand Government, to the point that at the 2014 election it committed to provide additional funding to increase the FTTP rollout from 75% population coverage to 80%.
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MacMahon, Rohan, and Murray Milner. "Ultra-fast broadband in New Zealand: Progress Accelerating." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 3, no. 4 (December 29, 2015): 12–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v3n4.32.
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The New Zealand Government’s Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) initiative is now more than halfway completed. Pleasingly, deployment of Fibre To The Premises (FTTP) has tracked ahead of schedule over the last two years. As at September 2015, deployment was 56% complete, with over 800,000 households and businesses able to connect, equating to around 44% of the NZ population able to connect to an optic fibre broadband service. Communal deployment has been completed in 11 of the 35 eligible towns and cities, meaning fibre has been laid on public lands, enabling every household to order a UFB connection. A further eight towns/ cities are expected to be completed by June 2016. Uptake of UFB services is accelerating as Retail Service Providers (RSPs) increasingly see UFB as the right choice for themselves and their customers. Presently around 10,000 households and businesses connect every month. With over 130,000 connections in place as at September 2015, uptake is around one in 6, indicating that there is still a long way to go for New Zealanders to connect to improved broadband. Importantly, deployment to “priority” premises (businesses, schools and health facilities) is close to completion, and many of these customers report that UFB usage has helped them improve business productivity or service delivery. The goal for the UFB initiative is recognised as being delivered well by the New Zealand Government, to the point that at the 2014 election it committed to provide additional funding to increase the FTTP rollout from 75% population coverage to 80%.
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Jamali, Azadeh, Maryam Robati, Hanieh Nikoomaram, Forough Farsad, and Hossein Aghamohammadi. "Urban Resilience and Climate Change: Developing a Multidimensional Index to Adapt against Climate Change in the Iranian Capital City of Tehran." Urban Science 7, no. 1 (January 12, 2023): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7010007.
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Urban resilience studies have increased during recent years due to the significance of climate change as an alarming issue in centralized and highly populated cities where urban functionalities are disintegrated. Towards this aim, an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was enrolled to streamline the urban resilience to climate change over the 22 districts in Tehran after assessing the resilience objectivity. Based on the results, the city coverage was classified into best (41%), moderate (15%), low (14%), and least resilient (30%). In addition, the urban municipal districts were classified into five functional zones including Wellbeing-wealth (WWZ), Ecological Conservation (ECZ), Core (CZ), Downtown (DZ), and Neutral Zone (NZ) after evaluating the concept of urban functionality in the resilience framework. The results indicated that the socio-cultural component is considered as the fundamental necessity, along with eco-environmental and economic components in capacity building to urban climate resilience. In fact, more than half of the Tehran coverage is regarded as resilient. Thus, the rest should be prioritized, despite the need to inspire from top-ranked districts, especially D4. However, downtown and neutral zones, especially D9 and D21, which account for up to 12% of the least resilient areas, should be evaluated seriously. Finally, the robustness of the proposed methodology was compared to the studies addressing the same concept, and we offer some preparatory and adaptive measures for urban planners and policymakers.
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Tupai-Firestone, Ridvan, Soo Cheng, Joseph Kaholokula, Barry Borman, and Lis Ellison-Loschmann. "Investigating differences in dietary patterns among a small cross-sectional study of young and old Pacific peoples in NZ using exploratory factor analysis: a feasibility study." BMJ Open 9, no. 3 (March 2019): e023126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023126.
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ObjectivesObesity among Pasifika people living in New Zealand is a serious health problem with prevalence rates more than twice those of the general population (67% vs 33%, respectively). Due to the high risk of developing obesity for this population, we investigated diet quality of Pacific youth and their parents and grandparents. Therefore, we examined the dietary diversity of 30 youth and their parents and grandparents (n=34) to identify whether there are generational differences in dietary patterns and investigate the relationship between acculturation and dietary patterns.MethodsThe study design of the overarching study was cross-sectional. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with Pasifika youth, parents and grandparents to investigate dietary diversity, that included both nutritious and discretionary food items and food groups over a 7 day period. Study setting was located in 2 large urban cities, New Zealand. Exploratory factor analyses were used to calculate food scores (means) from individual food items based on proportions consumed over the week, and weights were applied to calculate a standardised food score. The relationship between the level of acculturation and deprivation with dietary patterns was also assessed.ResultsThree distinctive dietary patterns across all participants were identified from our analyses. Healthy diet, processed diet and mixed diet. Mean food scores indicated statistically significant differences between the dietary patterns for older and younger generations. Older generations showed greater diversity in food items consumed, as well as eating primarily a ‘healthy diet’. The younger generation was more likely to consume a ‘processed diet’. There was significant association between acculturation and deprivation with the distinctive dietary patterns.ConclusionOur investigation highlighted generational differences in consuming a limited range of food items. Identified dietary components may, in part, be explained by specific acculturation modes (assimilation and marginalised) and high socioeconomic deprivation among this particular study population.
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Marsh, Louise, Claire Cameron, Robin Quigg, Sarah Wood, Mei-Ling Blank, Noeleen Venter, Lathan Thomas, Lindsay Robertson, Janet Hoek, and Trudy Sullivan. "Is the tobacco ‘footfall’ argument justified for tobacco purchases in New Zealand convenience stores?" Tobacco Control, December 3, 2020, tobaccocontrol—2020–056032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056032.
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IntroductionNew Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal aims to greatly decrease the availability of tobacco. One option is to cease the sale of tobacco from convenience stores. However, tobacco companies and retail trade associations oppose this move and have argued that customers who purchase tobacco drive footfall and spend more than non-tobacco customers. The aim of this study is to test the validity of industry claims about the importance of tobacco to convenience stores.MethodsDuring November and December 2019, immediate postpurchase surveys were undertaken with customers on exit from a random sample of 100 convenience stores in two New Zealand cities. We estimated the mean number of items purchased, including tobacco and non-tobacco items, and mean expenditure on non-tobacco items.ResultsOf the 3399 transactions recorded, 13.8% included tobacco, of which 8.3% comprised tobacco only and 5.5% included tobacco and non-tobacco items. The mean number of transactions containing both tobacco and non-tobacco items was 1.98, and 1.87 for those containing non-tobacco items only. Customers who purchased tobacco and non-tobacco items spent on average NZ$6.99 on non-tobacco items, whereas customers who purchased non-tobacco items only, spent on average NZ$5.07.ConclusionsOur results do not support claims that tobacco drives one-quarter of footfall into stores or that customers who purchase tobacco spend almost twice as much as non-tobacco customers. Combined purchases of tobacco and non-tobacco items constituted 5.5% of transactions; the impact on a store’s profitability of removing tobacco sales is unknown and could be the focus of future research.
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Scott, Chris. "S01-2 Providing policymakers with the evidence of the true value of physical activity to individuals and communities." European Journal of Public Health 32, Supplement_2 (August 27, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac093.003.
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Abstract Background With many countries and communities suffering from budget cuts, policymakers are coming under increasing pressure to provide the true value of public health interventions. Owing to the scale of conclusive findings over the past decade, we now have a robust evidence base regarding the impact of physical activity on individuals and communities. However, more work needs to be done to bridge the gap between policymakers and academics. Methods We conducted both a review of the leading academic research as well as primary analysis of existing open-access datasets to determine the impact of physical activity on the risk of health and social outcomes across the life course. This evidence base was then modelled with the latest figures on disease prevalence and its economic impact to quantify the social and economic value of physical activity. Results This methodology has currently been applied to a city population, as well as a national scale evaluation of the impact of individual sports on children alone. Results have shown that the average value of physical activity, across four cities around the world including London, Stockholm, Singapore and Auckland, is US$1900 per person in economic, health and social outcomes. In addition to this when looking specifically at the 4 million children who participate in team sports across England, preliminary findings estimate the total value to be £6.5Bn annually. Conclusions These initial findings are already being used by policymakers to make the case for additional investment and change the way they evaluate the outcome of their policies and programmes. For example, Aktive Auckland has secured an additional NZ$120M for sport and recreation in the 10-year annual national budget after they used results which showed the annual contribution of physical activity was $1.9Bn to the local economy. Sports federations in the UK are also reshaping their strategies towards childhood sport and activity based on the emerging findings of the report.
Books on the topic "NZ Cities"
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Press, Nazraeli, ed. imprint: NZ *JGS. [Tucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press, 2005.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "NZ Cities"
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"Research Findings and International Institutional Recommended Principles." In Information Systems Strategic Planning for Public Service Delivery in the Digital Era, 64–86. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9647-9.ch003.
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This chapter examines the relationship between the centric ratings (for USA, EU, India, South East Asia, Australia, and NZ) and six key United Nations ICT societal variables, namely, eGovernment Development Index, Online Service Index, Telecommunication Infrastructure Index, Human Capital Index, eParticipation Index, and Human Development Index. The chapter then examines the digital strategic principles identified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and World Bank. The findings suggest that the main difference between the recommended digital strategies of OECD and World Bank is the way they view the citizen and civil society. OECD sees the citizen and civil society in broad terms, whereas the World Bank focuses on different categories of citizens and civil society. This micro-view enables the World Bank to make specific recommendations regarding how the digital age can assist in developing all categories of people to achieve a truly digital inclusive society.
Conference papers on the topic "NZ Cities"
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Schofield, Tim, and Chris Miller. "The Development and Application of Resin Systems for the Treatment of Citrus Products Containing Pulp and Cloud." In ASME 2007 Citrus Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/cec2007-5305.
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This paper describes the resin treatment system developed by Bucher Alimentech NZ Ltd. (BAN) for the treatment of Citrus Products containing pulp and cloud. These products can be pure juices, core or pulp washes, or peel extracts and comminutes. The system does not use filtration membranes to first clarify the feed stream, instead a pulp reduced stream containing cloud is treated through the resin beds. Processes including debittering, colour adjustment, and ratio adjustment are described. Benefits are defined. Paper published with permission.