Tagged: Accidents

Lime E-Scooters – Avoiding a collision course with public health? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Feb 11, 2019 •

• Accidents,
• collisions,
• e-scooters,
• lime scooters,
• shared economy,
• Traffic,
• Transport

Prof Janet Hoek, Assoc Prof George Thomson, Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Caroline Shaw Currently introduced in four New Zealand cities, Lime electric scooters (e-scooters) have elicited varied responses. Proponents argue they will help reduce traffic density, thus bringing health and environmental benefits, while critics suggest they risk unacceptable overall harm to pedestrians, users themselves, and to taxpayers, who … Read More

Home Modification to reduce falls – appears cost-effective in NZ - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Oct 10, 2017 •

• Accidents,
• elderly,
• Falls,
• home safety

Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Dr Nisha Nair, Prof Tony Blakely We have just published a modelling study on a home safety and modification programme to prevent falls in older people. This work suggests that this intervention could produce considerable health gain and be cost-effective at a health district level in New Zealand. But in this blog we discuss … Read More

What Kiwis die of – Part III: Changes with age - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Feb 15, 2013 •

• Accidents,
• age,
• assault,
• cancer,
• causes of death,
• death,
• Mike Dickison,
• Ministry of Health,
• Mortality,
• New Zealand,
• Paul Gardner,
• suicide

Over the last month we have been looking at the data on the primary causes of death recorded by the Ministry of Health for the 29,204 people who died in New Zealand in 2009. First we looked at what people thought they would die of, and then we looked at differences in the causes … Read More

No Help At All - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Apr 27, 2010 •

• ACC,
• Accidents,
• Alcohol,
• Drug Addiction,
• ethics,
• Human Interest,
• Mental health,
• Mental Injury,
• National,
• politics,
• Sciblogs,
• Sexual abuse,
• Stupidity,
• suicide

Some newspaper articles cause me to wonder what is NOT being said. The Herald today runs the headline: Denied help for sexual abuse, dead days later A review of new rules for sexual abuse counseling has come too late to save a South Auckland mother who died four days after her claim for ACC-funded counselling [...] Related posts: … Read More

Emergency Clairvoyance - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Nov 23, 2009 •

• Accidents,
• CapPlan,
• computers,
• DHBs,
• Emergency Departments,
• Hospitals,
• predictions,
• resource Planning,
• Sciblogs

One of the hallmarks of emergency departments is the unpredictable nature of the throughput. Accidents, in particular, are relatively unforeseeable although certain types do tend to cluster. Cuts with knives seem to congregate around mealtimes (for obvious reasons) and minor traffic-related injuries have an obviously predictable flurry at rush hour. I recall analysing the data from [...] Related posts: … Read More