Background: Primary care practice nurses are frequently required to provide dietary advice to patients at risk of heart disease. However, they are usually not trained in nutrition and have limited time available to provide dietary counselling. The purpose of this project was to develop a brief heart healthy eating assessment tool and counselling guide to...

Background: Life expectancy is improving and birth rates slowing, causing an increase in the population over 65 years of age. As a result of different lifetime exposures to risk factors causing disease manifestations, and medication use, this age group is a very heterozygous age group. Adequate nutrition is essential for good health at all ages...

This paper provides a synthesis of our evaluation of tax revenue reform in the Pacific. It gathers, in summary form, the key outcomes of the evaluation, from the following papers: • Evaluation of tax reform in the Pacific, dated 31 March 2014 (“the evaluation”). • Topography of tax reform in the Pacific Islands in the...

Background: Low vitamin D status is common amongst the athletic population internationally. Sufficient vitamin D is important for bone health and recent research also suggests an importance for physical performance, with associations found between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and muscle strength and physical performance in healthy populations.

Gout is associated with various co-morbidities including insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Gout and type 2 diabetes are strongly linked to the individual components of metabolic syndrome. There may be shared pathogenic pathways between gout and type 2 diabetes in which insulin resistance, obesity, hypertension and hyperuricaemia play a central role.Genetic and environmental factors...