Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences
The research carried out at AUT's Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences can be broadly defined in three themes:
- Health Sciences
- School of Clinical Sciences
- School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies
- School of Interprofessional Health Studies
- Sciences
- School of Science
- Sport
- School of Sport and Recreation
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Is Resistance Training Intensity Adequately Prescribed to Meet the Demands of Returning to Sport Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair? A Systematic Review
(BMJ, 2021)Objective To identify, critique and synthesise the research findings that evaluate the use of resistance training (RT) programmes on return to sport outcome measures for people following ACL repair (ACLR). Design and ... -
The Effects of 4 Weeks of Chiropractic Spinal Adjustments on Motor Function in People With Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(MDPI AG, 2021)Chiropractic spinal adjustments have been shown to result in short-term increases in muscle strength in chronic stroke patients, however, the effect of longer-term chiropractic spinal adjustments on people with chronic ... -
Cognitive Effect Following a Blended (Face to Face and Videoconference-delivered) Format Mindfulness Training
(Frontiers Media, 2021)While evidence supports the feasibility of online mindfulness training (MT), the effect of this approach on cognition remains unclear. The present study investigated changes in cognition following a newly developed 6-week ... -
Processing and Extraction Methods of Medicinal Cannabis: A Narrative Review
(BioMed Central, 2021)INTRODUCTION: As the cannabis industry transitions from a black market to a legal market, product development, and methods of extraction have become a focal point. To date, more than thousands of chemical constituents have ... -
Parent and Teacher-reported Child Outcomes Seven Years After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Nested Case Control Study
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Background: Increasing evidence suggests potential lifetime effects following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood. Few studies have examined medium-term outcomes among hospitalized and non-hospitalized samples. ... -
Temperature Effects on Biomass and Regeneration of Vegetation in a Geothermal Area
(Frontiers, 2017)Understanding the effects of increasing temperature is central in explaining the effects of climate change on vegetation. Here, we investigate how warming affects vegetation regeneration and root biomass and if there is ... -
Sulfide Assimilation of the Ectosymbionts on the Sessile Ciliate, Zoothamnium niveum
(Springer, 2009)We investigated the constraints on sulfide uptake by bacterial ectosymbionts on the marine peritrich ciliate Zoothamnium niveum by a combination of experimental and numerical methods. Protists with symbionts were collected ... -
Effects of CO₂ Enrichment on Benthic Primary Production and Inorganic Nitrogen Fluxes in Two Coastal Sediments
(Nature, 2018)Ocean acidification may alter the cycling of nitrogen in coastal sediment and so the sediment-seawater nitrogen flux, an important driver of pelagic productivity. To investigate how this perturbation affects the fluxes of ... -
Review: Effects of Formulation and Processing Techniques on Physicochemical Properties of Surimi Gel
Surimi is a seafood-based product that is widely consumed around the world, in the form of crab sticks, fish balls, and kamaboko. It is made using white meat from lean saltwater fish, such as Alaska Pollock and Pacific ... -
E le sauaina tatou tagata matutua: Re-examining Abuse Through Cultural Lens of the Fonofale Model
Introduction Cultural paradigms are emerging as the appropriate way to examine Samoans’ life experiences. In this study, it proposes to employ the fonofale model to explore and examine the notion of abuse among Pacific ... -
The Burden of Neurological Disorders Across the States of India: The Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2019
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Summary Background A systematic understanding of the burden of neurological disorders at the subnational level is not readily available for India. We present a comprehensive analysis of the disease burden and trends of ... -
Re-thinking Public Health Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Factory Model to Personalized Learning
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Key drivers of change in the 21st century—pandemic, technology advance, social disparity—are shaping the public health industry, including employment and education. In 2020, COVID-19 brought rapid change to the teaching ... -
Knowledge About Osteoarthritis: Development of the Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Knowledge Scales and Protocol for Testing Their Measurement Properties
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Objectives 1) Develop unidimensional instruments to measure osteoarthritis (OA) knowledge among people with hip or knee OA, and 2) assess the structural validity, internal consistency, cross-cultural validity/measurement ... -
Metabolic Phenotypes and Step by Step Evolution of Type 2 Diabetes: A New Paradigm
Unlike bolus insulin secretion mechanisms, basal insulin secretion is poorly understood. It is essential to elucidate these mechanisms in non-hyperinsulinaemia healthy persons. This establishes a baseline for investigation ... -
Healthy Cities South Auckland: A Focus on Youth Leadership and Sustainability in the Post-COVID World
(Child and Youth Health Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Introduction: This paper draws on a presentation given at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Philadelphia in 2019 (Drs. Conn and Field). It is based on an innovative public health initiative ... -
Ranked Importance of Childhood Obesity Determinants: Parents' Views Across Ethnicities in New Zealand
(MDPI AG, 2019)Māori, Pacific, Indian, and New Zealand European pre-school children's caregivers' views on determinants of childhood obesity are needed to inform strategies that will reduce disparities in prevalence. Nineteen focus groups ... -
Perceptions of Pacific Children's Academic Performance at Age 6 Years: A Multi-informant Agreement Study
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)Purpose In New Zealand, Pacific immigrants are among the fastest growing ethnic minorities but, as a group, they are also at most risk of not realising their literacy and educational aspirations critical for achieving ... -
A Prediction Model for Childhood Obesity in New Zealand
(Nature Publishing Group, 2021)Several early childhood obesity prediction models have been developed, but none for New Zealand's diverse population. We aimed to develop and validate a model for predicting obesity in 4-5-year-old New Zealand children, ... -
Fucoidan Extracted From Sporophyll of Undaria Pinnatifida Grown in Weihai, China – Chemical Composition and Comparison of Antioxidant Activity of Different Molecular Weight Fractions
(Frontiers Media, 2021)Fucoidan is a multifunctional marine carbohydrate polymer that differs in its chemical composition and bioactivity both between seaweed species and within species from different locations across the globe. In this study, ...