MICHAEL GEORGE BAKER

..Such estimates are essential for motivating injury prevention efforts as they quantify potential health gains, in terms of injuries prevented, via specific environmental interventions...

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..We aimed to develop and apply a robust systematic method for monitoring the epidemiology of serious infectious diseases...

..We aimed to describe the epidemiology of childhood skin infections presenting to primary care in a region of New Zealand with a particularly high burden of infection and compare this to hospitalised cases during the same period...

..This study aimed to describe the characteristics of serious skin infections in children hospitalised in the Tairawhiti region...

..This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of serious skin infections in children in this region, and make comparisons with equivalent national data to identify factors that might be contributing to elevated infection rates...

..Therefore, regulatory measures to prevent foodborne campylobacteriosis probably have an additional health and economic benefit of preventing GBS...

..To estimate the key transmission parameters associated with an outbreak of pandemic influenza in an institutional setting (New Zealand 1918)...

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..Conflicting evidence has been presented on the role of gender, region and deprivation. Little has been published on the magnitude of excess winter mortality (EWM) in New Zealand (NZ) and other Southern Hemisphere countries...

..A need to improve research skills among medical students has also been suggested. Therefore we piloted an integrative teaching exercise that combined teaching of research skills and public health, with real-world research...

..Motivated by the situation of small island nations, which will probably experience the introduction of pandemic influenza via just one airport, we examined the potential effectiveness of quarantine as a border control measure...

..Some island nations have explicit components of their influenza pandemic plans for providing travel warnings and restricting incoming travellers. But the potential value of such restrictions has not been quantified...

..Although IHR 2005 contains some provisions that directly address these obstacles, active support by the World Health Organization and its member states is required to strengthen national and global surveillance capabilities...

..To assess the risk of transmission of pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza (pandemic A/H1N1) from an infected high school group to other passengers on an airline flight and the effectiveness of screening and follow-up of exposed passengers...

..This research aimed to identify whether household crowding contributes to TB transmission in NZ...

..Such reviews also have the potential to identify important surveillance gaps, improve the organisation of disparate surveillance systems and to focus attention on upstream hazards, determinants and interventions...

..Preventing infection requires control of the epidemic in sheep through vaccination, changes in farm management practices, and promotion of hand washing and other precautions to protect farmers and their families...

..With collective national and international effort to implement these new Regulations, the IHR 2005 will support greater global health security for all...

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..To determine whether insulating existing houses increases indoor temperatures and improves occupants' health and wellbeing...

..To assess whether non-polluting, more effective home heating (heat pump, wood pellet burner, flued gas) has a positive effect on the health of children with asthma...

..There are a number of potentially confounding factors that may affect relationships found between the existence of home hazards and injury occurrence. These need to be taken into account when future evaluations are planned...

..Energy-efficient cities and the creation of opportunities for poor countries will be important elements of people centered, ecologically sustainable, development in the twenty-first century...

..This study aimed to examine the impact of rurality on mortality rates from pandemic influenza in New Zealand in 1918...

..The aim of this study was to examine the association between ARF and household crowding in New Zealand between 1996 and 2005...

..g. for tobacco control). Overall there remains significant scope for New Zealand to contribute more effectively via aid and trade to health in the South Pacific...

..To estimate the impact of the next influenza pandemic on population health and health sector capacity in New Zealand...

..Refugees and migrants are not acting as an important source of TB for most NZ-born populations. Those caring for them should have a high level of clinical suspicion for TB...

..Although this is an important illness, there is little published information on the national costs of treatment. Without such information, new treatment options cannot be evaluated in economic terms...

..The aims of this study were to assess trends in ARF incidence rates between 1996 and 2005 and the extent to which ARF is concentrated in certain populations based on age, sex, ethnicity and geographical location...

..Twenty-four TB outbreaks, including 221 cases, were reported between mid-1996 and 2004. CONCLUSIONS: TB is not declining in NZ. The burden of disease is very unevenly distributed across the population with marked ethnic inequalities...

..They are also consistent with some preliminary evidence associating paracetamol use with an increased risk of asthma. Any protective effect of notifiable childhood infections was weak...

..They also experienced lower excess death rates than the other jurisdictions that did not apply quarantine measures...

..Findings from the housing cohort would be used to guide advice about reducing influenza transmission in households, particularly in terms of crowding levels and exposure to active and passive smoking. ..