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Face-to-face Versus Telephone Delivery of the Green Prescription for Maori and New Zealand Europeans With Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus: Influence on Participation and Health Outcomes
(New Zealand Medical Association, 2017)Aim In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the proportion of Māori who participate in the national Green Prescription lifestyle programme is lower than for New Zealand Europeans. We compared the uptake and effectiveness of two modes ... -
Female Rugby Union Injuries in New Zealand: A Review of Five Years (2013–2017) of Accident Compensation Corporation Moderate to Severe Claims and Costs
(Elsevier, 2019)OBJECTIVES: To provide epidemiological data and related costs for moderate-to-serious and serious injury claims for women's rugby union in New Zealand. DESIGN: A retrospective analytical review of injury entitlement claims ... -
The Female-friendliness of New Zealand's Tennis Clubs
(International Tennis Federation, 2022)Across an array of contexts, a ‘female-friendly environment’ is increasingly thought to positively impact participation levels for women and girls. The aim of this study is to provide insights on the female-friendliness ... -
First-aid and Concussion Knowledge of Rugby League Team Management, Administrators and Officials in New Zealand
(Sports Medicine New Zealand, 2010)Objective: To assess rugby league team management, administrators and officials’ knowledge of first-aid, concussion recognition and management and injury prevention. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted using a ... -
Fitting the Jigsaw Together: The Body-school-society Nexus and Children's Understanding of Body Pedagogies
(Federation Internationale Education Physique (FIEP), 2017)Introduction Increasing attention from many agencies on children’s health, a proliferation of health interventions in schools and a growing body of knowledge about body pedagogies has prompted research studies to be ... -
Foods Imported Into the Tokelau Islands: 10th May 2008 to 1 April 2012
(AUT University, 2013)No abstract. -
GoodWIL Placements: How COVID–19 Shifts the Conversation About Unpaid Placements
(2020)This paper discusses how the COVID–19 pandemic can shift the conversation of paid and unpaid placements from an economic to a pedagogical and goodwill perspective. During the pandemic lockdown many placements were cancelled ... -
Head Impact Monitoring: What New Methodologies Could Do for Concussion Biomechanics
(International Society for Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS), 2018)Concussion has become a world-wide concern for sports participants. In-vivo head impacts monitoring has long been proposed as a way of identifying and even helping to prevent concussions. Several head impact devices were ... -
Head injury prevention in alpine skiing and snowboarding: critical review of literature and analysis of NZ snow sports injury epidemiology – technical report for the coroner’s office
(Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand, 2011)Objective To inform the Coroner’s inquest into alpine skiing and snowboarding fatalities regarding the magnitude of the head injury problem in alpine skiing and snowboarding in New Zealand, and evidence for helmets as an ... -
The High-bar and Low-bar Back Squat: a Biomechanical Analysis
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017)No prior study has compared the joint angle and ground reaction force (Fv) differences between the high-bar back-squat (HBBS) and low-bar back-squat (LBBS) above 90% 1RM. Six male powerlifters (height: 179.2 ± 7.8 cm; ... -
Holism in sports coaching: beyond humanistic psychology: a commentary
(Multi-Science Publishing, 2010)No abstract. -
Hook-grip Improves Power Clean Kinetics and Kinematics
(International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS), 2018)The purpose of this study was to compare one repetition maximum (1RM), as well as biomechanical outputs across a range of loads (75-100%) in the power clean (PC) utilizing the hook grip (HG) or closed-grip (CG). Eleven ... -
How Does Fatigue Impact the Technical Execution of a Back Handspring in Cheerleading?
(University of Alicante, 2018)Cheerleading is a technical, explosive and physically demanding sport. Currently there is very limited knowledge or specific research in regard to both routine fatigue and technical execution of skills at different levels ... -
How Many Steps/Day are Enough? for Children and Adolescents
(BioMed Central, 2011)Worldwide, public health physical activity guidelines include special emphasis on populations of children (typically 6-11 years) and adolescents (typically 12-19 years). Existing guidelines are commonly expressed in terms ... -
I Have Cultural Pride in a Western Space: University Cultural Clubs
(School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, 2021)Tertiary institutions perpetuate colonial legacies, teaching Eurocentric curriculums and using English as the language of instruction with little regard for non-European pedagogy. Many students from non-Western backgrounds ... -
The Importance of Pedestrian Network Connectivity for Adolescent Health: A Cross-sectional Examination of Associations Between Neighbourhood Built Environments and Metabolic Health in the Pacific Islands Families Birth Cohort Study
The research aim was to investigate associations between objectively-assessed built environment attributes and metabolic risk in adolescents of Pacific Islands ethnicity, and to consider the possible mediating effect of ... -
Improving Engagement With Biomechanics: Student Perspectives and a Professional Development Initiative
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019)Student engagement is an essential aspect of educational environments, and this is especially true for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, where student engagement declines in middle and ... -
Improving Health Through Diet and Exercise in Children
(Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature, 2018)We know that nutritious foods and quality physical activity are two of the fundamental needs for normal growth and development of children. Food based dietary guidelines and physical activity recommendations have universal ... -
Incidence of Match Injuries in an Amateur Women’s Rugby Union Team in New Zealand Over Two Consecutive Seasons
(Kosmos Publishers, 2020)Background: Rugby Union is played in over 200 countries with over 8.5 million registered players worldwide. Despite increased popularity of the game for women, there is relatively little evidence for incidence, causes or ... -
The Incidence, Cost, and Burden of Concussion in Women's Rugby League and Rugby Union: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis
(Springer, 2022)BACKGROUND: The extent of concussion injury in the rugby codes for women is unclear. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to review all published studies reporting concussion injuries from match and training participation in rugby codes ...