Art and Safe Communities: the role of Big hART in the regeneration of an inner city housing estate.

Issue Addressed: This paper describes how a notorious central housing estate nicknamed '' became the first public housing estate to achieve the World Health Organization criteria for designation as a Safe Community.

Methods: A case study was the method of choice to report on the way Government and non-government agencies worked with tenants in a community development approach.

Results: The Neighbourhood Advisory Board formed at Northcott worked collaboratively with tenants, Big hART, Government and non-government organisations to make Northcott a safer place to live.

Using local injury surveillance for community-based injury prevention: an analysis of scandinavian WHO safe community and canadian safe community foundation programmes.

Injury surveillance is widely recognized as a critical prerequisite for effective injury prevention, yet few studies have investigated its use by community-based injury prevention programmes. This study examined the extent to which local injury data were collected, documented, analysed, linked to injury prevention action and used for evaluation among WHO Safe Communities in Scandinavia (25 programmes) and the Canadian Safe Community Foundation (SCF) network (16 programmes). For each programme, a key informant with relevant local knowledge was selected to respond to an emailed questionnaire.

Mental health services and sexual abuse: the need for staff training.

Identification of child abuse by mental health services is important for formulation of the causes of presenting problems and for development of comprehensive treatment plans. A small but growing number of studies suggest, however, that the majority of child sexual abuse cases are not identified by mental health services. A similarly small literature also suggests that abuse survivors are extremely reluctant to spontaneously tell anyone about the abuse, indicating that professionals have a responsibility to ask rather than wait for spontaneous disclosures.

Injury associated with methamphetamine use: a review of the literature.

This paper reviews the literature exploring issues around methamphetamine and injury. There was a paucity of peer reviewed quantitative research and a lack of large scale epidemiological studies. Further sources described cases and others described injury risk as part of an overall review of methamphetamine misuse.

Evaluation of the Ngati Porou Community Injury Prevention Project.

Objective: To evaluate the Ngati Porou Community Injury Prevention Project based in a rural district in the North Island of New Zealand with an extensive indigenous population (Maori).

Method: The evaluation design was quasi-experimental and included process, impact and outcome measures.

Results: Process evaluation found that the Ngati Porou Community Injury Prevention Project was based on sound principles related to injury prevention, as well as addressing Maori aspirations.

TRAVELLERS: a school-based early intervention programme helping young people manage and process change, loss and transition. Pilot phase findings.

Objective: This paper outlines the conceptual background and findings from the pilot phase of TRAVELLERS--an early intervention programme designed to enhance protective factors for young people experiencing change, loss and transition events and early signs of emotional distress. The pilot study aimed to determine whether TRAVELLERS was a feasible, acceptable and promising intervention for young people within secondary schools in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Method: The conceptual origins of the TRAVELLERS programme are described in terms of: adolescent mental health concerns; emerging mental health promotion theory and practice; and prevention and early intervention models.

Evaluation of a New Zealand indigenous community injury prevention project.

Objective: To evaluate the Turanganui-a-kiwa Community Injury Prevention Project, based in a provincial town on the North Island of New Zealand with an extensive indigenous population (Maori).

Method: The evaluation design was quasi-experimental and included process, impact and outcome measures.

Results: Process evaluation findings indicated that adopting an holistic lifespan approach to injury prevention was successful in this Maori community.

Self-reported injury rates in New Zealand.

Aim: The study aimed to obtain baseline information on the incidence and nature of self-reported injuries in New Zealand.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted of approximately 400 randomly-selected households from each of 13 Territorial Local Authorities across New Zealand, giving a total sample size of 5282. Respondents were asked if anyone in their household had been treated by a medical doctor in the previous twelve months for any injuries and, if so, details of the injury event were recorded.

Risk factors associated with the transition from acute to chronic occupational back pain.

Study Design: A prospective cohort study was conducted on workers claiming earnings-related compensation for low back pain. Information obtained at the time of the initial claim was linked to compensation status (still claiming or not claiming) 3 months later.

Objective: To identify individual, psychosocial, and workplace risk factors associated with the transition from acute to chronic occupational back pain.