Mana Tū: a whānau ora approach to type 2 diabetes.

In 2017, the National Hauora Coalition, a Māori-led Primary Health Organisation (PHO), was awarded a Long-Term Conditions Partnership Research grant to test the effectiveness of Mana Tū: a whānau ora approach to type 2 diabetes. With moves to replicate aspects of it in programmes around New Zealand, it is timely to describe the rationale for Mana Tū and the key components of its unique model of care. Mana Tū was developed in response to current ethnic and social inequities in type 2 diabetes rates, outcomes and wider determinants.

Nurse-led school-based clinics for rheumatic fever prevention and skin infection management: evaluation of Mana Kidz programme in Counties Manukau.

Aim: To evaluate registered nurse-led school clinics in 61 primary and intermediate schools in Counties Manukau.

Methods: The evaluation (conducted August–December, 2014) collated evidence concerning service delivery, outcomes, value for money and effectiveness.

Results: 97% (23,756/24,497) of eligible children were consented, 11% (20,696/191,423) of throat swabs taken (February 2013–September 2014) were culture positive for Group A Streptococcus (GAS); 20,176 were treated.

Stimulus-response compatibilities during top-bottom discriminations.

Participants indicated whether a small dot was located near the top or bottom pole of a rotated object. Response times increased as a function of object orientation more for top trials than for bottom trials. The interaction between orientation and response was shown to be due to a relationship between response times and the dot's height on the screen.