71 results match your criteria: "Massey University Wellington Campus[Affiliation]"
Scand J Work Environ Health
January 2006
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
Farmers have an increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), several studies have found increased risks of NHL among producers or sprayers of pesticides. The findings are markedly inconsistent across countries and studies, but overall there is evidence of an increased risk among production workers and professional pesticide sprayers with heavy exposures. However, this increased risk does not appear to be confined to workers exposed to phenoxy herbicides containing 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, and it may be due to phenoxy herbicide exposure itself rather than to the dioxin contaminants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScand J Work Environ Health
August 2005
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
Objectives: New Zealand lacks comprehensive statistics on work-related injury and illness, and the impact of adverse work conditions on health is therefore not known. The objective of this study was to make quantitative estimates of the annual number of deaths from work-related disease and injury in New Zealand, as well as estimate the number of incident cases of work-related disease and injury.
Methods: Wherever possible, specific data for New Zealand were used, but, where adequate national data were lacking, a combination of New Zealand data and extrapolations from other countries was used.
Epidemiol Prev
May 2006
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington.
Int J Epidemiol
October 2005
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
Scand J Work Environ Health
December 2004
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
Several studies have found increased risks of cancer among workers in the meat industry, particularly lung and hematologic cancers. Relevant publications were obtained through a computerized literature search with the key words "cancer", "lung cancer", "hematologic neoplasms", "meat products", "abattoirs", and "slaughterhouses", and the evidence available from analyses of routine data, proportionate mortality and incidence studies, and cohort and case-control studies was reviewed. These analyses suggest a significant excess lung cancer risk among meat workers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOccup Environ Med
January 2005
Centre for Public Health Research, Research School of Public Health, Massey University Wellington Campus, PO Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
Aims: To evaluate mortality in New Zealand phenoxy herbicide producers and sprayers exposed to dioxins.
Methods: Phenoxy herbicide producers (n = 1025) and sprayers (n = 703) were followed up from 1 January 1969 and 1 January 1973 respectively to 31 December 2000. A total of 813 producers and 699 sprayers were classified as exposed to dioxin and phenoxy herbicides.
Eur J Epidemiol
November 2004
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
J Epidemiol Community Health
October 2004
Centre for Public Health Research, Research School of Public Health, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
Background: The "hygiene hypothesis" postulates that infections during infancy may protect against asthma and atopy. There is also some evidence that antibiotic and/or paracetamol use may increase the risk of asthma.
Methods: The study measured the association between infections, and medication use early in life and the risk of asthma at age 6-7 years.
Environ Health Perspect
July 2004
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
There is still considerable confusion and debate about the appropriate methods for analyzing prevalence studies, and a number of recent papers have argued that prevalence ratios are the preferred method and that prevalence odds ratios should not be used. These arguments assert that the prevalence ratio is obviously the better measure and the odds ratio is "unintelligible." They have often been accompanied by demonstrations that when a disease is common the prevalence ratio and the prevalence odds ratio may differ substantially.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Epidemiol
October 2004
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
We are all living in the era of globalization, and like it or not, it is going to change the way we practice epidemiology, the kinds of questions we ask, and the methods we use to answer them. Increasingly, pubic health problems are being shifted from rich countries to poor countries and from rich to poor populations within Western countries. There is increasing interest and concern about the situation in non-Western populations on the part of Western epidemiologists, with regards to collaborative research, skills transfer, and 'volunteerism' to enable the 'benefits' of Western approaches to epidemiology to be shared by the non-Western world.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Neuropsychiatr
June 2004
1School of Psychology, Massey University (Wellington Campus) New Zealand.
Background: This paper reports a qualitative investigation of people who have considered removing their dental amalgam fillings following a medical diagnosis of mercury poisoning.
Objective: To document themes from patients' collective, subjective experience; and explore links between illness and dental amalgam.
Methods: Seven focus groups involved 35 participants selected by random, criteria sampling from the computerized patient records of one medical practice.
BMJ
May 2004
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
Genetics plays only a small part in ethnic differences in health, and other factors are often more amenable to change
View Article and Find Full Text PDFN Z Med J
January 2004
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
Aim: To examine regional patterns of asthma hospitalisations in Maori and non-Maori.
Methods: We studied asthma hospitalisations in Maori and non-Maori during 1994-2000. Hospitalisation rates for Maori and non-Maori were calculated for ages 5-34 years in each of the 74 territorial authorities (TAs), of which 15 are urban and 59 predominantly rural.
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord
November 2003
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University-Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between body mass index (BMI) in early and mid-adulthood, and BMI change between these ages, and mortality.
Methods: Historical cohort study of 629 men, who had height and weight measured at the Student Health Service of the University of Glasgow in 1948-1949 (median age 22 y) and who reported their weight in a postal questionnaire in 1963-1966 (median age 38 y). The participants were followed up until April 2002 (mean follow-up: 35 y).
Br J Radiol
August 2003
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University--Wellington Campus Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
Mammographic density, in particular density from digital images, is increasingly used in breast cancer research. We investigated the concordance between density assigned by the same radiologist to a mammogram film and a digital image of the same mammogram. Two density measures were investigated, Wolfe parenchymal patterns and a six category classification (SCC) system of density.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Epidemiol
August 2003
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University-Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
Ann Occup Hyg
June 2003
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
Objectives: To study work exposure and respiratory symptoms in New Zealand plywood mill workers.
Methods: Personal inhalable dust (n = 57), bacterial endotoxin (n = 20), abietic acid (n = 20), terpene (n = 20) and formaldehyde (n = 22) measurements were taken and a respiratory health questionnaire was administered to 112 plywood mill workers.
Results: Twenty-six percent of the dust exposures exceeded 1 mg/m(3), however, none of the samples exceeded the legal limit of 5 mg/m(3) [geometric mean (GM) = 0.
Int J Epidemiol
December 2002
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Wellington, New Zealand.
Am J Public Health
January 2003
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, New Zealand.
There has been vigorous debate between the "social capital" and "neomaterialist" interpretations of the epidemiological evidence regarding socioeconomic determinants of health. We argue that levels of income inequality, social capital, and health in a community may all be consequences of more macrolevel social and economic processes that influence health across the life course. We discuss the many reasons for the prominence of social capital theory, and the potential drawbacks to making social capital a major focus of social policy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Ind Med
June 2001
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, New Zealand.
Background: To study respiratory symptoms in pine sawmill workers.
Methods: A respiratory health questionnaire was administered to 772 pine sawmill workers and the association between symptoms and job-title-based exposure was studied.
Results: Asthma in exposed workers (18%, n = 704) was more common than in the general population (12.
Occup Med (Lond)
November 2000
Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University Wellington Campus, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.
Background: A study of occupational respiratory symptoms in hairdressers was carried out in 26 salons in New Zealand.
Methods: A questionnaire was administered to 100 hairdressers and 106 office and shop workers, recording respiratory symptoms, demographic data, and smoking habits. Pulmonary function was measured before each shift.