Browsing by Author "Cheung, Jit"
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A cohort history of mortality in New Zealand
(Population Association of New Zealand, 2003)This paper uses the generational life tables to track historical mortality experience for New Zealand Pakeha and Māori. The key research questions we seek to explore concern with why was Pakeha life expectation so high so ... -
Differential trends in the compression of mortality: Assessing the antecedents to current gaps in health expectancy in New Zealand
(Population Association of New Zealand, 2009)Health Expectancies (HEs) for New Zealand show significant differentials between Maori and non-Maori, but also by gender and period. These differentials correlate with findings from both generation and synthetic life-tables ... -
Mortality, morbidity and population health dynamics
(The University of Waikato, 1999)This thesis is concerned with the dynamics of the health of populations with low levels of mortality, using the non-Maori population in New Zealand as a case study. The primary objective is to study patterns and trends in ... -
Restructuring and hospital care: Sub-national trends, differentials, and their impacts; New Zealand from 1981
(Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2009)An analysis of the "nation's health" is the central concern of this study. Its genesis was a detailed, technical, time-series research on regional and ethnic differentials in health in New Zealand. But as this work progressed ... -
Why were New Zealand levels of life-expectation so high at the dawn of the twentieth century?
(University of Waikato, Population Studies Centre, 2002-09)With population ageing becoming an issue of major importance for societies in the developed countries, in both the scientific and policy communities there is widespread interest in the determinants of these structural ...
