جدول المحتويات “...PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONVENTIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- Overview -- Pacific Islands people in New Zealand -- Health trends in the Pacific Islands -- Pacific Islands people's perceptions of their health status -- Access to and use of primary health services -- Analysis of Pacific Islands people's health -- Some limitations of the study -- Reliability of statistics for Pacific Islands people -- Relevance and consistency of ethnic definitions -- Completeness of enumeration or registration of Pacific Islands people and reliability of ethnic classifications -- Volatility due to small numbers -- References -- Chapter 2 DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS COMMUNITY IN NEW ZEALAND -- Introduction -- Key points -- Census definition of the Pacific Islands population -- Definition prior to 1986 -- Definition in the 1986 census -- Definition in the 1991 census -- Growth rate -- Under-enumeration -- Ethnic components -- Population distribution -- Components of population growth -- Movement between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand -- Crude birth and crude death rates -- Fertility -- Mortality -- Projected population growth -- Age composition of the Pacific Islands population -- General features -- Projected change in age structure -- References -- Chapter 3 SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH -- Introduction -- Key points -- Economic environment -- Employment and unemployment -- Personal incomes -- Expenditure: economic hardship and health -- Social environment -- Households and families -- Housing -- Parenting -- Youth offending -- Substance abuse -- Domestic violence and the use of women 's refuges -- Adult criminal offending -- Coping with stress -- References -- Chapter 4 LIFESTYLE, FOOD AND NUTRITION-RELATED HEALTH STATUS -- Introduction -- Key points -- Diet -- Changes in food and nutrition intake after migration -- Nutritional adequacy -- Attitudes towards food -- Nutritional status of infants, children and youth -- Diet-related risk factors and conditions -- Obesity and body weight -- Blood lipid levels and coronary heart disease -- Blood pressure and hypertension -- Gout and hyperuricaemia -- Diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance -- Other risk factors -- Cigarette smoking -- Alcohol consumption -- Level of physical activity -- References -- Chapter 5 HEALTH STATUS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS PEOPLE -- Introduction -- Key points -- Analysis and reliability of national health statistics -- Mortality -- Under-reporting of deaths of Pacific Islands people -- Hospitalisations -- Cancer registrations -- Mental health -- Physical disability -- References -- Chapter 6 HEALTH STATUS OF DIFFERENT LIFE CYCLE GROUPS -- Introduction -- Key points -- Children aged 0-14 years -- Infants aged under one year -- Infants aged 1-4 years -- Children aged 5-9 years -- Children aged 10-14 years -- Young people aged 15-24 years -- Mortality -- Hospitalisations -- Cancer registrations -- Mental health -- Men aged 25-64 years -- Mortality -- Hospitalisations -- Important causes of illness in Pacific Islands men --Mental health -- Women aged 25-64 years -- Mortality -- Hospitalisations -- Important causes of illness in Pacific Islands women -- Reproductive health -- Mental health -- Older people aged 65 and over -- Mortality -- Hospitalisations -- Cancer registrations -- Mental health -- References -- Chapter 7 CONCLUSION -- Assessing health status from imperfect statistics -- Possible future changes in health status in an ageing population--Impact of socioeconomic change on health status -- References -- GLOSSARY-- APPENDICES -- INDEX....”

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