Connect to collect: lessons learned from a Utah school-based intervention to increase take-up of the EITC.

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is an important economic safety net for many working families across America. Enacted in 1975, the credit provides credit to low- and moderate-income households with labor income. Receipt of the EITC has been demonstrated to provide substantial benefits to direct recipients, benefits that cascade intergenerationally, and benefits for communities in which recipients reside.

Representation of Asian ethnic subgroups in Aotearoa's regulated health workforce pre-registration students.

Aim: To provide a socio-demographic profile of Asian students enrolled in their first year of a health professional programme in polytechnics and universities in Aotearoa New Zealand and to explore differences in enrolment rates (ERs) within Asian sub-groups and by socio-economic deprivation, citizenship status, urban/rural location and gender.

Methods: Ethnic group/sub-group and socio-demographic characteristics of students enrolling within 21 health professional programmes were collected and averaged over 5 years (2016-2020). Age- and ethnicity-matched denominator data from the 2018 Census were used to calculate yearly ERs and ratios (ERR) using generalised linear modelling with the European ethnic group as the reference.

Cultural safety support and requirements for international medical graduates in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Aim: To investigate the requirements for, and process of, cultural safety training for international medical graduates (IMGs) when seeking to gain registration in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Method: To identify cultural safety standards and policies for IMGs: 1) a review of training policies of seven specialist colleges and other key organisations was carried out, and 2) four key informant interviews were conducted, and interviews were recorded and transcribed via Zoom. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the transcripts.

Holding a mirror to society? The socio-demographic characteristics of students commencing health professional programmes, and all courses, at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka (the University of Otago), 1994-2023.

Aim: To present selected key findings from a longitudinal analysis of the socio-demographic characteristics of students entering all courses at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka (the University of Otago), all health professional programmes combined, and 11 individual health professional programmes between 1994 and 2023.

Method: Data sources: 1) university electronic collections of student data (programme details, demographics, schooling, home address), and 2) publicly available datasets (some socio-demographic variables). Analyses included counts and proportions of commencing students, disaggregated by time period and socio-demographic variables, and commencement rates per 100,000 population aged 18-29 years.

Methods of functional outcome assessment in neurocritical care trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Acute brain injury due to conditions such as subarachnoid haemorrhage and traumatic brain injury are associated with physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional, and social deficits. Despite reductions in morbidity and mortality, there have been few significant changes in clinical practice. It has been suggested that heterogeneity in outcome assessment in studies has contributed to this limited progress.