Beyond Hardships: Resilience, Opportunities and Positive Experiences of Older Informal Caregivers in Aotearoa New Zealand During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare and social services, increasing pressure on informal caregivers who provided essential, unpaid care to family members, partners, friends, and neighbors. While much of the existing research emphasizes the challenges and burdens of informal caregiving, this descriptive qualitative study highlights the resilience, opportunities, and positive experiences of older informal caregivers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 81 older informal caregivers aged 57-88, recruited from across Aotearoa New Zealand, this study explores how participants navigated heightened caregiving responsibilities, reduced access to support, and increased isolation during the pandemic.

Toitū te Tiriti: A Tiriti o Waitangi-led Approach to Public Health Curriculum Development.

At Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa (Massey University), Aotearoa New Zealand, we have declared our stance as a Te Tiriti o Waitangi-led institution. This necessitates the embodiment and enactment of the principles and provisions of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the embedding of Indigenous Māori knowledge, values and belief systems in curriculum design and implementation. This article outlines the beginning of our journey toward indigenizing our postgraduate public health curriculum at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa.

"I did a lot of Googling": A qualitative study of exclusive breastfeeding support through social media.

Background: Little qualitative research has been done to explore the quality of breastfeeding support through social media in New Zealand.

Aim: This article aims to explore the influence of social media on exclusive breastfeeding practice.

Methods: A qualitative study involving face-to-face postpartum interviews with 30 mothers who were recruited from the lower North Island of New Zealand.

The Inverse Response Law: Theory and Relevance to the Aftermath of Disasters.

The Inverse Care Law is principally concerned with the effect of market forces on health care which create inequities in access to health services through privileging individuals who possess the forms of social capital that are valued within health care settings. The fields of disaster risk reduction need to consider the ways in which inequities, driven by economic and social policy as well as institutional decision-making, create vulnerabilities prior to a disaster, which are then magnified post disaster through entrenched structural differences in access to resources. Drawing on key principles within the Inverse Care Law, the Inverse Response Law refers to the idea that people in lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be impacted and to experience disparities in service provision during the disaster response and recovery phase.

Reasons for Stopping Exclusive Breastfeeding Between Three and Six Months: A Qualitative Study.

Purpose: Scant published qualitative literature exists focusing on why exclusive breastfeeding rates decline between three and six months. This study aims to develop an understanding of why exclusive breastfeeding tails off so dramatically between three and six months after birth in New Zealand.

Design And Methods: A generic qualitative methodology was employed in this study and social constructionism selected as the main epistemological framework underpinning the research.

New Zealand women talk about breastfeeding support from male family members.

Aim: Little research has been done to investigate the influence of male family members' support for breastfeeding. This article considers the influence of male partners and other male family members on the initiation and duration of exclusive breastfeeding.

Methods: Thirty heterosexual New Zealand women who had identified in a short antenatal questionnaire that they intended to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months were recruited.

Resistance to breastfeeding: A Foucauldian analysis of breastfeeding support from health professionals.

Background: Despite widespread consensus regarding the health benefits of breastfeeding, the prevalence of six months exclusive breastfeeding is very low in developed countries including New Zealand.

Aim: This paper aims to evaluate the role that health professionals play in promoting exclusive breastfeeding in New Zealand.

Methods: Qualitative research involving face to face postpartum interviews conducted four to six weeks after the birth with 30 new mothers who lived in New Zealand and had identified in a short antenatal questionnaire that they intended to practice exclusive breastfeeding for six months.

Synergising Public Health Concepts with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Conceptual Glossary.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015) is a global strategy for addressing disaster risk and resilience that has been ratified by member countries of the United Nations. Its guiding principles emphasise building resilience through inter-sectoral collaboration, as well as partnerships that facilitate community empowerment and address underlying risk factors. Both public health and the emergency management sector face similar challenges related to developing and implementing strategies that involve structural change, facilitating community resilience and addressing individual risk factors.

Towards a relational model of decision-making in midwifery care.

Objective: current individualistic ideas of autonomy and decision making do not fit within the context of decision-making in the midwife-woman relationship. This article critically explores current issues around decision-making and proposes a relational decision-making model for midwifery care.

Design: qualitative prenatal and postnatal interviews around decision-making within childbirth in general, and the third stage of labour in particular.

Gender, nursing and the PBRF.

Significant disparities between male and female academics exist with respect to remuneration, academic grading and PBRF scores--with women doing less well than men in each of these areas. There exists a range of gender-based distribution and outcome gaps within the university, and between universities and non-university tertiary education organisations. This situation, combined with a devaluing of academic subjects that have feminised knowledge bases, is suggestive of wider structural discrimination against women.