Summary The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than half of the global population and
accounted for 62· 6% of global deaths due to liver diseases in 2015. 54· 3% of global deaths …

Background: In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the first nation-wide coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) lockdown occurred from March 23, 2020 to May 13, 2020, requiring most people …

Background During the first COVID-19 pandemic 'lockdown'in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(March–May 2020, in which strict 'stay at home'measures were introduced), general …

Objective (s) This paper aims at providing an overview of the COVID-19 situation, health
policies, and economic impact in Greece, Iceland, New Zealand, and Singapore. The four …

Australia and New Zealand are routinely presented as sharing more in common than the
federal and unitary systems separating them. As two modernising Antipodean settler …

Recent studies raised concerns about the increasing use of gabapentinoids in different
countries. With their potential for misuse and addiction, understanding the global …

The nature of decision making in healthcare is complex and crucial. It is essential to have a
tool that helps with accurate and correct decisions based on real-time data. Moreover, the …

Abstract Background In 2009, the New Zealand government introduced a hospital
emergency department (ED) target–95% of patients seen, treated or discharged within 6 h-in …

In this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design,
management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health …

Abstract Aotearoa New Zealand has restructured its health system with the objective of
addressing inequitable access to health services and inequitable health outcomes …