Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Mackay, Lisa"

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    • Toward a Framework for Positive Health

      Prendergast, Kathleen (Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
      Despite explicit reference to promoting health and wellbeing in policy, application and promotion of positive health is limited. In New Zealand, like most societies, the dominant and funded health system is deficit-based. ...

    • Towards Greater Understanding of the Role of Eating and Moving Behaviours in Wellbeing

      Maclaren, Olivia (Auckland University of Technology, 2019)
      New Zealand’s public health system is primarily deficit-based; that is, the focus is mainly on disease prevention and treatment. Increasing levels of morbidity (time spent in poor health) and the failure of the current ...