Much of Australia’s policy response to HIV and mobility has been relegated to the ‘needs attention’ category but with no harmonised policy and program response. Without an integrated response across government, community, health services and research there will be little progress in this emerging priority for the Australian HIV epidemic.

The World Alzheimer Report 2014 examines critically the evidence for the existence of modifiable risk factors for dementia. It focuses on potential modifiable risk factors in four key domains: developmental, psychological and psychosocial, lifestyle and cardiovascular conditions. The report makes recommendations to drive public health campaigns and disease prevention strategies.

Background: Chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, gout and cardiovascular disease have higher prevalence among Pacific Islanders than any other ethnicity in New Zealand. Increasing evidence has shown a link between increased fructose consumption and these diseases. However measuring dietary sugar intakes in these populations is difficult.

Background: The National Heart Foundation of New Zealand perceived a need to support non-nutritionally trained primary care practitioners providing nutrition counselling to patients with or at risk of cardiovascular disease. A brief dietary assessment tool was commissioned. Objective: This study aimed to determine how a brief dietary assessment tool should be designed for use by...

Objective: The aim of the study was to expand the New Zealand Food Composition Database (NZFCD) to include flavonoid data, in order to determine the relationship between the intake of (a) total flavonoids and (b) flavan-3-ols, and 5-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score in New Zealand adults. Design: The present study used data from the...