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RESEARCH

CPHR-based Projects

Current Projects

Examining the role of the airway neutrophil in the pathogenesis of asthma
Key words: asthma, neutrophil, sputum, flow cytometry

Asbestos exposure levels in demolition sites
Key words: asbestos, occupational exposure, occupational Hygiene

Workplace interventions to reduce wood dust exposures in the joinery and furniture making industry
Key words: wood dust, control measures, joinery workers, furniture makers, intervention, exposure assessment

Maori households and family wellbeing
Key words: Maori health, whanau ora

Overcoming social barriers to Universal Health Coverage: global experiences both inside and outside the health system
Key words: universal health coverage, social barriers, global health, health system, health interventions

Development of Environmental Health Indicators including Hazardous Substances Surveillance
Key words: environmental health indicators, hazardous substances, surveillance

Inequalities in cervical cancer survival in New Zealand
Key words: cervical cancer, epidemiology, survival

Maori with cancer - the role of primary care
Key words: Maori health, cancer, primary care, access to care

The Role of the Innate Immune System in Childhood Asthma Development
Key words: childhood asthma, allergy, innate immunity, birth cohort

Chemical Injury Surveillance Strategy
Key words: surveillance, chemical injury, hazards

Providing epidemiological services to the Maori Health Directorate
Key words: epidemiology, surveillance, Maori health

Survey of cervical abnormalities in Tonga
Key words: Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), prevalence, cervical cancer

Case-control study of modifiable risk factors for congenital malformations
Key words: congenital malformations, pesticides, occupational exposures, alcohol and drugs, epidemiology

Occupational exposures and occupational health in Maori
Key words: occupational health, Maori health, epidemiology, exposure assessment

Stomach cancer in Maori
Key words: gastric cancer, epidemiology, risk factors, genetic factors

Understanding the determinants of inequalities in breast cancer survival
Key words: cancer control, cancer survival, health inequalities, ethnicity, socio-economic factors, rurality

Women's occupational health and safety in New Zealand
Key words: occupational health, women's health

Workplace exposure to carcinogens in New Zealand
Key words: occupational health, cancer, epidemiology, exposure assessment

Occupational asthma in New Zealand sawmill workers
Key words: occupational health, epidemiology, respiratory disease, asthma, sawmill workers

Occupational dermatitis in New Zealand cleaners
Key words: occupational health, epidemiology, skin disease, dermatitis, cleaners

Exposures to hazardous airborne substances in the wood conversion sector
Key words: Occupational Health, Respiratory Disease, Cancer, Wood Industry, Epidemiology

Occupational risk factors for NHL and NHL subtypes
Key words: non-Hodgkin lymphoma, pooled analysis, occupational risk factors

Investigation of breast milk for persistent organic pollutants
Key words: Breast milk, POPs, Dioxins, PCBs, Organochlorine Pesticides, Polybrominated Diphenylethers

Serum dioxin levels in fire fighters of the New Plymouth Fire Service station
Key words: Dioxin, Fire Fighters, Serum Levels, Phenoxy Herbicides

The Early Life Factors Study of Childhood Diseases (www.elfs.org.nz)
Key words: Birth Cohort, Congenital Malformations, Infant Deaths, Obesity, Respiratory Disease, Life Style Factors, Socio-economic Status, Environmental Exposures

Chronic inflammation in asthma
Key words: Asthma, Inflammation, Macrophage, Eosinophil, Neutrophil

Dioxin exposure levels and health effects in former phenoxy herbicide production workers
Key words: Cancer, Occupation, Pesticides, Dioxin, Reproductive Outcomes

Asthma and atopy in farmers' children and their parents
Key words: Asthma, Respiratory Disease, Child Health, Occupational Health, Environmental Health

ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Children). Phase III
Key words: ISAAC, Asthma, Respiratory disease, Child Health

Asthma Causation, Mechanisms and Prevention
Key words: Asthma, Atopy, Respiratory Disease, Occupational Health, Environmental Health

Cancer in Pacific Populations
Key words: Cancer, Breast Cancer, Pacific

Early Life Factors and Breast Cancer Risk
Key words: Breast Cancer, Early Life Factors, Life-course Epidemiology

Indicators for surveillance of occupational disease
Key words: Occupational disease, Indicators, Surveillance

Completed Projects

Literature Review to Inform Maori Analysis for Guidelines for Weight Management in Children and Young People and in Adults
Key words: Maori health, obesity, clinical guidelines

Drafting and promoting the Pacific Declaration on Food Security
Key words: Food security, Biosecurity, Nutrition

Alcohol Facts and Surveillance
Key words: Alcohol, Indicators, Surveillance

Women’s occupational health and safety in New Zealand
Key words: Occupational health, Occupational injury, Women’s health

Occupational cancer in adult New Zealanders
Key words: Occupation cancer, Bladder cancer, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Leukemia, Lung cancer

Determinants of survival from cancer in the New Zealand population
Key words: Cancer, Survival

Microbial and Arsenic Content of Roof, Well and Public Water Supplies in Rural New Zealand Communities and Impact on Health
Key words: Water Quality, Arsenic, Health, Farming

Asthma self-management intervention study in Tonga
Key words: Pacific health, Standardised Asthma Management, Research Training

The current and future burden of occupational ill-health in New Zealand
Key words: Occupational Health, Exposures

Non-allergic causes of asthma
Key words: Asthma, Respiratory Disease, Child Health

Health outcomes in former New Zealand timber workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP)
Key words: Cancer, Occupational Health, PCP

Coding of Occupational Data
Key words: Occupational health, Mortality, Cancer

Development of a model of health promotion for fanau Pasifiki and their families
Key words: Health promotion, Pacific health

Causes of morbidity, and factors affecting access to health services in Maori adolescents with asthma
Key words: Asthma, Respiratory disease, Maori

Cause-specific mortality in a cohort of diabetes patients
Key words: Diabetes, Survival

Mortality and cancer incidence in meat workers
Key words: cancer, occupation

Kawa Whakaruruhau/cultural safety in the international context
Key words: cultural safety, indigenous health, Maori health, nursing

Early childhood infections and subsequent asthma risk
Key words: asthma, respiratory disease, child health

Feasibility study of research on the health of New Zealand timber workers exposed to PCP
Key words: cancer, occupation, dioxin

Social class differences in mortality in NZ men
Key words: socio-economic factors, Maori Health

Time trends and regional differences in asthma mortality and hospital admissions in Maori
Key words: asthma, Maori

Occupational asthma in plywood mill workers
Key words: asthma, respiratory disease, occupation

Analyses of The New Zealand Asbestos Exposure Register and the New Zealand Asbestos Disease Register (with OSH)
Key words: asthma, asbestos, respiratory disease

Occupational cancer in pulp and paper workers
Key words: cancer, occupation, dioxin

Asthma in Pacific people in New Zealand and in the South Pacific
Key words: asthma, prevalence, management, Pacific

Projects based in other research groups and institutions

Current Projects

Occupational exposure to EMFs and risk of glioma and meningioma
Key words: cancer, electromagnetic fields

Cancer and mortality in lead exposed workers: the lead workers study
Key words: Cancer, Occupational Health, Lead

How does social connectedness work to benefit all?
Key words: social capital

The New Zealand census mortality study
Key words: social class, mortality

Estimating the long-term health outcomes of people with epilepsy
Key words: epilepsy

Research Centre for Maori Health & Development
Key words: Maori health

The Glasgow alumni project
Key words: Life-course epidemiology, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes

The Glasgow alumni project mammography study
Key words: Life-course epidemiology, breast cancer, breast density

Cardiovascular disease and oral health: the Glasgow alumni project
Key words: Foetal origins of adult disease, life-course epidemiology, cardiovascular disease

IARC Multicentre case-control study of Occupation, Environment and Lung Cancer in Central and Eastern Europe
Key words: lung cancer, occupation, tobacco

International study of environment, viruses and cancer of the oral cavity and the larynx
Key words: oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, lifestyle factors, occupation

Environmental Exposures and Lymphoid Neoplasms
Key words: lymphoid neoplasms, environmental exposures, infectious agents, occupational exposures

Arsenic and childhood respiratory health in Bangladesh
Key words: arsenic, asthma, respiratory disease, child health

Completed Projects

CancerTrends: Ethnic and socio-economic trends in cancer incidence and survival
Key words: Cancer, Ethnicity, Trends, Social Class

Domestic environment and lifestyle determinants of childhood asthma in Palestine
Key words: Asthma, Child Health, Allergen, Endotoxin, Risk, Protective Factors

Prevention and Incidence of Asthma and Mite Allergy (PIAMA)
Key words: asthma, respiratory disease, child health

Prevention of allergy - risk factors for sensitisation in children related to farming and anthroposophic lifestyle (PARSIFAL)
Key words: asthma, respiratory disease, child health, allergy, immunlogy

Protection against Allergy: Study in Rural Environments (PASTURE)
Key words: asthma, allergy, anthroposophy, farming, respiratory disease, child health

Risk factors for asthma prevalence in Italian children
Key words: asthma, child health, risk and protective factors, ISAAC, SIDRIA

Work-related determinants of health, safety and well-being of New Zealanders
Key word: occupation

Review of Tonga's health status
Key words: Pacific health, Tonga

Health effects of mobile (cellular) phones
Key words: cancer, environmental health

Te Hauora O Nga Tamariki O Whaingaroa
Key words: Maori health, tamariki, rangatahi

Social variation in New Zealand health expectancy trends
Key words: social class, health expectancy

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