Literature
The Knowledge Library describes primarily New Zealand based research on quality and innovation in the health sector from the year 2000 onwards.
Current areas of focus include: clinical leadership; improvement methods; productivity (focusing initially on hospitals and shorter stays in emergency departments); health targets (including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer), and oral health.
There are also a selection of abstracts from the international literature that have applicability to health system improvement activities in New Zealand.
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| NZ Literature Abstracts | 32 | View all |
| Research Studies | 1 | View all |
| Researchers | 3 | View all |
| International Literature | 12 | View all |
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International Literature
Training practitioners to deliver opportunistic multiple behaviour change counselling in primary care: A cluster randomised trial (Wales)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 20 Mar 2013
The aim of this cluster randomised trial was to evaluate the effect of training primary care health professionals in behaviour…
International Literature
Measuring up: The UK medical profession's prescription for the nation's obesity crisis
posted by HIIRC Admin on 20 Feb 2013
Medical professionals have set out their recommendations for tackling obesity in a report published by the Academy of Medical Royal…
International Literature
Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses
posted by HIIRC Admin on 12 Feb 2013
The authors describe inequalities in non-communicable diseases (NCD), and effective actions to reduce NCD inequalities, including in health care (comprehensive…
NZ Literature Abstract
Food pricing strategies, population diets, and non-communicable disease: A systematic review of simulation studies
posted by HIIRC Admin on 13 Dec 2012
Published 2012. Authors: Helen C. Eyles, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Nhung Nghiem, Tony Blakely.
PLoS Medicine, 9 (12), e1001353. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001353
Popular
NZ Literature Abstracts
- GRx Patient Survey (annually from 2010)
- The Diabetes Excess Weight Loss (DEWL) Trial: A randomised controlled trial of high-protein versus high-carbohydrate diets over 2 years in type 2 diabetes
- Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis
- The Diabetes Excess Weight Loss (DEWL) Trial: High protein vs low fat diets
- Diabetes self-management education in South Auckland, New Zealand, 2007-2008
International Literature
- Can nudging improve population health?
- Contribution of modifiable risk factors to social inequalities in type 2 diabetes: Prospective Whitehall II cohort study (England)
- Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses
- A systematic review of interventions in primary care to improve health literacy for chronic disease behavioral risk factors
- Targeted versus universal prevention. A resource allocation model to prioritize cardiovascular prevention