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This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Section of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) held at Auckland University on August 28, 1964, including "Dental-Health Status of Tokelau Islanders," "Effect of Fluoride and Soil Trace Elements on Tooth Morphology in Humans," and "Acid Mucopolysaccharides and the Mineralization of Dentin."

Objective: Suicide is a global health priority. It is important to analyse the effects of investment in mental health services on suicide rates. This paper presents and discusses recent changes in suicide rates and diagnostic mix among clients of the mental health service in Auckland during a time of service growth. Method: Details of suicides among current clients were analysed for the years 1993 to 2006, comparing the periods 1993-1999 and 2000-2006. These periods were compared with the local population and national figures. Results: The local population suicide rate decreased significantly with the rate among clients increasing slightly so the proportion occurring among clients increased (up to 31%). There was an increase in non-psychotic diagnoses. Conclusions: As access to services expands the proportion of suicides that occur in known clients will paradoxically increase. Service expansion may have contributed to the falling population suicide rate in Auckland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The aim of this paper is to examine gender differences in relation to negative life events and suicidal behaviours in patients presenting to an acute community mental health team in Auckland, New Zealand. Method: Clinical files of all patients referred to one of the Auckland community crisis teams in 2007 were surveyed (n = 442). Those presenting with suicidal behaviours were included in the study ('suicidal behaviours' refers to the presence of suicidal ideas or suicide attempts). Demographic information and reasons for presentation were collected from the file. Results: Seventy patients aged 18-65 years met the inclusion criteria. For 86% of women and 85% of men separation from their partners and relationship conflicts were the main stressors precipitating suicidal behaviours and referral to the local community crisis team. Suicidal behaviours did not differ between males and females. Conclusion: Irrespective of gender, relationship loss and conflicts were the most commonly identified negative life events precipitating suicidal behaviours in the acute community setting. These findings can have important implications in risk assessment, suicide prevention and provision of acute community services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the utility of investigating regional economic policy (REP) as constituted through the interplay of imaginaries, political projects, and institutional arrangements. It frames REP in process terms-as continually 'in-the-making' and emerging out of the intersecting trajectories of ideas, policy, individuals, and other resources. The empirical focus is economic governance in Auckland, New Zealand, in the years following the widely publicised neoliberal reforms and profound economic restructuring of the l980s and early l990s. The analysis draws on the authors' particular positionality of being involved in knowledge production, both in academic and in policy arenas, and benefits from the development of a range of poststructural political economy methodologies by Auckland-based researchers. The concept of 'political project' is argued to be a useful analytical tool for linking circulating academic imaginaries, political initiatives, and particular policy rationales. By means of juxtaposing key aspects of particular economic imaginaries with political! policy initiatives and developments, it is shown that knowledge production for subnational economic governance is coconstitutive, contradictory, occurs on multiple geographical scales, and is mediated and remediated by place-specific and time-specific institutional actors. The methodological strategy of highlighting associations with the potential for interaction, rather than seeking causal processes, not only reveals the politicised nature of contextual facets of contemporary interventions, but promises to make a richer base for exploring possibilities for acting differently in urban and regional policy worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper asks how the material differences between suburban neighbourhoods influence parents' experience of place and their everyday practices of parenting. Building on a view of place as 'becoming', we examine how the accessibility of community amenities and the in-place production and maintenance of social practices contribute to the cohesiveness of neighbourhoods and the social capital resources available to parents. We draw on a 2002-03 study of experiences of Maori, Pakeha (European), and Samoan parents residing in six diverse Auckland neighbourhoods. Analysis of the parents' narratives highlight aspects of the neighbourhood environment that give meaning to participants' daily experiences of parenting, and foster or impede the social relations of place. Beyond purely locational issues, the nuanced relationships between material and sociocultural resources of neighbourhood profoundly influence local patterns of parenting practice. We conclude that place matters in parenting but the salience of the neighbourhood for accessing material and social capital resources varies for parents of different ethnic groups. 'Jumping' spatial scale to meet resource needs through the active creation of amenities was more common for minority ethnic groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on so-called ‘global cities’ dominates the existing literature on globalization, fashion, and cities. In this we paper analyze the recent rise of a designer fashion industry in Auckland, New Zealand. The designer fashion industry has emerged as an unlikely success story as the New Zealand economy has globalized. Together with other creative industries, designer fashion is seen as an industry that can revamp New Zealand's international image and in doing so foster additional foreign investment. As the industry has succeeded, Auckland has disproportionately benefited, with sustained industry agglomeration and increasing infrastructural development in this city. However, the symbolic benefits of the designer fashion industry have proved more elusive. We show that the New Zealand designer fashion industry borrows symbolic capital from the global cities of designer fashion. We argue that this borrowing of symbolic capital underlines the need to think more carefully about the geographical specificity of the material, political, and symbolic processes associated with globalization and the cultural economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents several issues discussed at the second annual Maori Tourism Conference held in Auckland, New Zealand, bringing together the key players in the growing area of Maori tourism development in New Zealand. Maori tourism; Maori economic development; Culture and commerce; Sustainable tourism; Case studies in Maori tourism.

Children have as much "right" to the city as adult citizens, yet they lose out in the urban spatial justice stakes. Built environments prioritizing motor vehicles, a default urban planning position that sees children as belonging in child-designated areas, and safety discourses, combine to restrict children's presence and opportunities for play, rendering them out of place in public space. In this context, children's everyday appropriations of public spaces for their "playful imaginings" can be seen as a reclamation of their democratic right to the city: a prefigurative politics of play enacted by citizen kids. In this article, we draw on data collected with 265 children in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, to consider how children's playful practices challenge adult hegemony of the public domain and prefigure the possibilities of a more equal, child-friendly, and playful city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: There is a paucity of data relating to the association of gout with the occurrence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in patients with stroke. This study aimed to determine the association of gout with the risk of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in a cohort of stroke patients from Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among stroke survivors in South and East Auckland, New Zealand from the years 2010 to 2014. Electronic health record data were collected and analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science version 23. Multivariate logistic regression modelling adjusted for age, gender, and ethnicity was conducted to determine the association of gout with the risk of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in patients discharged with a diagnosis of stroke. Results: The age-, gender-, and ethnicity-adjusted odds ratio for having hypertension and diabetes mellitus among stroke survivors with gout history were 3.25 (95% confidence interval 1.32-8.03) and 1.94 (95% confidence interval 1.12-3.36), respectively. Maori stroke survivors with gout history had the highest risk of having diabetes mellitus with age- and gender-adjusted odds ratio of 5.10 (95% confidence interval 1.90-18.93). Conclusion: The findings from this study suggest gout may be independently associated with an increased risk of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in patients with stroke. Maori who are the indigenous population of New Zealand show a greater risk of diabetes mellitus associated with a gout diagnosis compared to other populations. This finding highlights the importance of the need for further research with Maori stroke survivors and other indigenous populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a speech by Patrick McGorry, executive director of Orygen Youth (OYH) Research Centre, delivered at the 2010 College Address of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), held in Auckland, New Zealand in July 2010, in which he discussed three steps for adopting a 21st century approach to mental health, outlined its benefits, and identified the role of psychiatrists in implementing the adopted approach.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe a metabolic risk assessment programme that was established by community mental health teams working within one locality of a District Health Board in Auckland. Conclusions: Physical health disparities between people with serious mental illness and the general population are of great concern. We have described a systematic way to engage with clients about the prevention of two important contributors to these disparities: cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus. Around 15% of all adult service users of the mental health service in the locality attended this metabolic risk assessment clinic in the first 12 months of its operation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To explore the test-retest reliability and construct validity of the standardized Physical Activity and Disability Survey (PADS) and its acceptability to people with multiple sclerosis. Design: Participants completed the PADS twice with seven days between repeated measures, while also wearing an Actical accelerometer. Semi-structured interview questions were used to explore the acceptability of the PADS. Subjects: Thirty participants were recruited from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Auckland, New Zealand. Mean age of participants was 54 years (range 27–76). Main measures: Physical Activity and Disability Survey (PADS) and Actical accelerometer. Results: A wide range of standardized PADS scores were recorded at each time-point (ranges 6.7–83.3 and 6.7–87.4). While standardized PADS scores between time-points had a high intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.92 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.88, 0.98), Bland-Altman 95% limits of agreement (-17.4, 17.4) were modest. Accelerometer activity counts were not accurately predicted by standardized PADS scores (wide 95% prediction intervals). Participants reported the PADS was easy to understand and complete, enabling them to give an accurate picture of their physical activity. Conclusions: The PADS appears to be a potentially appropriate measure of activity for people with multiple sclerosis, particularly in terms of the wide range of activities it covers and its ability to detect varying levels of physical activity. We suggest the test-retest reliability and validity of the PADS could be improved with some minor revisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the goals of the New Zealand National Committee of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists discussed at a planning meeting in Auckland, New Zealand. Some of the planned activities include the development of a New Zealand workforce survey, career education, and a communications strategy. The meeting is committed to improve service and foster a bicultural approach.

The article offers information on meetings related to ornithology from October 10, 2011 to August 18, 2012, including 2011 International Conference on Indian Ornithology to be held at Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) in Coimbatore, India on November 19-23, 2011, 25th International Congress for Conservation Biology in Auckland, New Zealand on December 5-9, 2011, and Raptor Research Foundation International Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 14-18, 2012.