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Lowe, L. (2002). Linking housing and health status. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 8(9), 26–27.
Abstract: The author examines the impact of poor housing on health, and looks at how the situation can be improved. Ways that nurses can work towards improving housing standards and thus health are discussed.
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Russell, D. (1999). Changing public health nursing practice. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 5(11), 18–19.
Abstract: A new approach to public health nursing in the Otago region is described, which comprises of 3 distinct groups of nurses working in early childhood centres, primary schools and high schools. A family nursing assessment approach is used. The philosophical underpinnings of this approach are examined, which seeks to empower patients and engage them in their health care. Two public health nurses are interviewed about the new partnership model of nursing.
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Roddick, J. A. (2005). When the flag flew at half mast: Nursing and the 1918 influenza epidemic in Dunedin. Ph.D. thesis, , .
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Mahoney, L. (2008). Making the invisible visible: Public health nurses role with children who live with a parent with a mental illness. Ph.D. thesis, , .
Abstract: This research uses focus group methodology to examine the public health nursing practice with children living with a mentally ill parent. These children are often neglected, yet are at increased risk of developing mental illnesses themselves. The research data identified the burgeoning impact on public health nurses of such care, and found their role to be primarily assessment and advocacy.
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