This paper describes the Healthy Housing Programme, an ongoing intervention initiated for New Zealand public housing tenants in 2000 and presents findings from an evaluation conducted over three consecutive years. The Programme aims to improve well-being by addressing the housing circumstances...

This paper critically examines the ways that tuberculosis (TB) has been represented in the print media in New Zealand over recent years (2002-2004). Our broad contention is that, notwithstanding its biomedical reality, TB is socially constructed by, and through, human experience. Further, public...

Cervical screening has been subject to intense media scrutiny in New Zealand in recent years prompted by a series of health system failings through which a number of women developed cervical cancer despite undergoing regular smears. This paper considers why underscreening persists in a country...

This paper explores the relevance of the proletarianisation thesis to the emergence of new forms of managed primary care in New Zealand. This concern is of particular interest because the primary care sector has persisted virtually unchanged, since the birth of the welfare state in 1938, despite...

The closing years of the 20th century were a time in New Zealand dominated by health care reforms inspired by neo-liberal ideology. The result has been changing geographies of public and private health care providers and the evolution of a new discourse of health care. Ascot Integrated Hospital,...

This paper examines housing satisfaction, preference and need among a sample of the CMD in Hamilton, Ontario. The research goes beyond simply documenting the gap in housing supply by examining issues of housing quality as expressed by clients themselves. Survey data were obtained in two rounds...

Contemporary models of health have broadened the concept so that health includes, but is not exclusively, biomedical wellness. One concern arising from this widened perspective is the degree to which health service provision promotes healthier, more convivial communities. This paper examines the...

This paper examines access to health care by poorer residents in Chennai, India. It reveals constraining and enabling conditions for impoverished users seeking treatment. We explore patterns of health-seeking behaviour through the reasoning of residents themselves as well as stakeholders...

Although the neighbourhoods and health field is well established, the relationships between neighbourhood selection, neighbourhood preference, work-related travel behaviours, and transport infrastructure have not been fully explored. It is likely that understanding these complex relationships...