Abstract Although student well-being and mental health are government-identified responsibilities for New Zealand schools, the extent to which school-based interventions currently delivered is unknown. This survey of a nationally representative sample schools was undertaken identify: what used by primary (elementary) secondary (high) schools; gaps exist between current practice evidence base; i...

Value addition in agriculture predominantly offers a means to increase, rejuvenate and stabilize farm income. Farmers Training Institute (FTI) is a premier training institute, signifying value addition training programme. The study reported here explored, to what extent the training programme of value addition had been changing participants perceived knowledge, acquisition of skills and adoptio...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported high rates of occupational injury and illness among workers in the tree fruit industry. However, many common and preventable risk factors and conditions in orchards have not been investigated. AIMS To identify and rank risk conditions leading to workers' compensation claims among orchard workers with respect to frequency, severity and cost. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND The evidence base for the impact of social determinants of health has been strengthened considerably in the last decade. Increasingly, the public health field is using this as a foundation for arguments and actions to change government policies. The Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, alongside recommendations from the 2010 Marmot Review into health inequalities in the UK (which ...

Fruit quality and productivity datasets, obtained over two seasons from 24 New Zealand persimmon orchards, were associated with a self organising map trained on the spatial coordinates and geographic region of each orchard. Using this approach, a summary representation of the geographic distribution of the orchards was obtained from the projection plane of the self organising map. By overlaying...