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Item Sustainable diets and biodiversity: Directions and solutions for policy, research and action(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012) Burlingame, BA; Dernini, SItem Indigenous Peoples' food systems and well-being: Interventions and policies for healthy communities(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013) Kuhnlein, H; Erasmus, B; Spigelski, D; Burlingame, BAItem Health economics for health professionals: An Aotearoa/New Zealand perspective(Massey University, 2016) Scott, GuyThis monograph draws upon lecture notes created for a post graduate health economics course at Massey University New Zealand. The focus of the text is on the practical application of economic concepts to health. The theoretical concepts and examples provided are of particular relevance to a range of health professionals and to the delivery of health services in mixed market economies. The monograph is intended to be a summary of economic concepts relevant to the health sector, it is not intended to replace more detailed and theoretical health economic texts or journal articles. Some specific examples of the types of issues that the application of health economics could help resolve are as follows: • What are the roles of the market and government with respect to improving allocative efficiency and social equity? • How can health care resources be allocated to achieve enhanced health outcomes for a defined population? • How much should New Zealand spend on health? • What health services should the health sector deliver? • How can we improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery? • How do we set priorities in health care provision and delivery? • Who should receive healthcare services? • How can we use the resources devoted to health to best improve the nation’ s health?Item The sustainable delivery of sexual violence prevention education in schools(Massey University, 2015) Julich, SJ; Oak, E; Terrell, J; Good, GSexual violence is a crime that cannot be ignored: it causes our communities significant consequences including heavy economic costs, and evidence of its effects can be seen in our criminal justice system, public health system, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), and education system, particularly in our schools. Many agencies throughout New Zealand work to end sexual violence. Auckland-based Rape Prevention Education: Whakatu Mauri (RPE) is one such agency, and is committed to preventing sexual violence by providing a range of programmes and initiatives, information, education, and advocacy to a broad range of audiences. Up until early 2014 RPE employed one or two full-time positions dedicated to co-ordinating and training a large pool (up to 15) of educators on casual contracts to deliver their main school-based programmes, BodySafe – approximately 450 modules per year, delivered to some 20 high schools. Each year several of the contract educators, many of whom were tertiary students, found secure full time employment elsewhere. To retain sufficient contract educators to deliver its BodySafe contract meant that RPE had to recruit, induct and train new educators two to three times every year. This model was expensive, resource intense, and ultimately untenable. The Executive Director and core staff at RPE wanted to develop a more efficient and stable model of delivery that fitted its scarce resources. To enable RPE to know what the most efficient model was nationally and internationally, with Ministry of Justice funding, RPE commissioned Massey University to undertake this report reviewing national and international research on sexual violence prevention education (SVPE). [Background from Executive Summary.]Item Psychological Dimensions of Retirement(Massey University, 2013) Alpass, Fiona; Paddison, Johanna; Flett, Ross; Wright, Sarah; Pachana, Nancy; Biggs, Herbert; Pennington, Helen; Neville, Stephen; Fiona Alpass; Paddison, JohannaThe chapters that follow examine the character of, and issues relating to, western retirement experiences. As our populations age, issues relating to the nature of retirement are of growing importance. Population ageing is a global issue. For instance, Jacobsen, Kent, Lee, & Mather (2011) report that currently one-fifth of the Japanese population is aged over 65 and estimated to increase to one-third of the population by 2040. Based on Bogomolny’s (2004) calculations, by 2025, there will 2 workers in Japan for every person over 65. By 2030 to 2040, 20% of the United States population (i.e., 70 million people), will be aged over 65 (Conrad Glass & Flynn, 2000; Jacobsen, Kent, Lee & Mather, 2011). A drop in the number of workers per government funded beneficiaries from 3.3. to 2.2 has also been predicted (Social Security Board of Trustees, 2008). Many European countries will have similarly high proportions of their population aged over 65 (Heyma, 2004) with concomitant dependency ratios, as will Australia and New Zealand (Kippen, 2002; Statistics New Zealand, 2012). In the 1970s and 1980s there was a trend toward early retirement, however this began to be reversed in many countries in the 1990s. Participation rates in most OECD countries for older workers (50-64 years) have increased to an average of 63% in 2008. Some countries have seen considerable increases in participation rates for these workers (e.g. New Zealand, Netherlands) and in even older workers (65-69 years) (OECD, 2011). Along with the increasing expansion of working lives has come an evolution of the pathways to retirement. Retirement is no longer necessarily a “clean break” from the workforce, with many researchers arguing that the transition from work to retirement is now “blurred”. Retirement is not a single discrete event but can be viewed as an individual process, where for many paid employment still plays a significant role well into the “third age”. The changing nature of retirement over the past few decades highlights the need to continually reassess how we conceptualise it in the literature and how it impacts on the individual, organisations and society. This book seeks to address some of the psychological dimensions of retirement prominent in the literature. The initial chapter of this book outlines a number of definitions pertinent to the topic of retirement. This is followed by an examination of issues that affect retirement decisions. Next, psychological wellbeing and physical health issues are examined in relation to retirement. The final chapters examine the interplay between work and retirement, the role of leisure in retirement, the experiences of women, and the sources and role of social support in retirement.Item Your books are in the mail: fifty years of distance library service at Massey University(Massey University, 2011) White, BruceItem Academic murals: Social work research exemplars(Massey Univesity, New Zealand, 1/01/2016) Gardiner B; Julich S; Hay K; Hay, KSItem The forgotten tribe: Scientists as writers(The WAC Clearinghouse and the University Press of Colorado, 1/03/2017) Emerson LEIn The Forgotten Tribe: Scientists as Writers, Lisa Emerson offers an important corrective to the view that scientists are "poor writers, unnecessarily opaque, not interested in writing, and in need of remediation." She argues that scientists are among "the most sophisticated and flexible writers in the academy, often writing for a wider range of audiences (their immediate disciplinary peers, peers in adjacent fields, a broad scientific audience, industry, and a range of public audiences including social media) than most other faculty." Moreover, she notes, the often collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of their work results in writing practices that "may be more socially complex, and require more articulation, mediation, and interpersonal communication, and more use of advanced media and technology than those of faculty in other disciplines." Drawing on extensive interviews with scientists, Emerson argues that writing scholars have "engaged in a form of cultural appropriation" that has worked against a deeper understanding of the contexts in which scientists work and the considerations they bring to their writing. Emerson grounds her analysis in the voices of scientists in a way that allows us to understand not only how they approach writing but also how we might usefully teach writing in the sciences. The Forgotten Tribe offers a valuable contribution to our understanding of scientific writing, allowing us to hear voices that are seldom included in our discussions of this critical area.Item Digital Threats to Democracy. Literature Review Part 2: Solutions(8/05/2019) Kuehn K; Salter LA; Berentson-Shaw J; Elliott MItem A comprehensive study of the status and needs of national productivity organisations and the Asia productivity organisation(Asian Productivity Organisation, 2015) Mann RSThe objective of this project was “To assist the Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) and National Productivity Organizations (NPOs) undertake a Needs Assessment to enable effective productivity-related strategies and programs to be developed and implemented at a National and APO-wide level”. The research was commissioned by the APO Secretariat and officially started on 18 February 2014 and concludes with the publication of this report on 5 June 2015. This report had the input of 16 NPOs (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of China, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam). A Chief Expert (supported by 7 researchers) and 16 National Experts coordinated the research and analysed the data provided by 372 staff, 390 customers and 130 NPO partners. Data was obtained on Country Trends, NPO Strategy, Systems and Services, NPO Performance Results, NPO SWOT Analysis and APO Strategy and Assistance. The results reflect the diversity of APO members. For example, the number of staff employed by NPO members varied from 16 in Nepal and Mongolia to 670 people in Sri-Lanka. Malaysia had the most training course attendees in 2013 with 130,517 people trained whilst some countries recorded less than 20 people trained. Some NPOs were almost 100% government funded whilst others received no government funding. Whilst the NPOs all had specific challenges and opportunities there was agreement with the APO’s current vision and mission, and most indicated that “Training courses, Technical expert services, Development of demonstration companies / organizations and In-country programs” had the most impact. The report provides many recommendations to assist the APO and NPOs such as encouraging more best practice sharing on institutional strengthening and capability building (to share strategies, organizational structure, infrastructure, funding models, staffing levels/ratios and approaches to governance, leadership, human resources, customer focus, operations and systems, and measurement, analysis and knowledge management) and on service delivery (to share success stories on how productivity-related services are being delivered). For both the APO and NPOs more needs to be done to raise the profile of productivity including simple steps such as the improved use of social media and improving the design and content of NPO websites. The report endorsed the need for an APO Roadmap which has a clear strategy and targets. Currently, 3 or more APO members are in the top 20 countries for 10 of 18 reputable international performance metrics but none were in the top 20 for Labour Productivity. Clear stretch targets for key performance metrics can help the APO to develop appropriate strategies and obtain alignment of NPO strategies. Some NPOs require help in developing their own National Plans and Roadmaps. This report contains a wealth of information which can be used as a reference guide and for benchmarking purposes for many years to come.
