This blog publishes posts by researchers about improving health practice in New Zealand and hence the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders. Contributors include staff, postgraduate students and alumni from Otago Polytechnic, in the fields of Nursing, Midwifery, Occupational Therapy, and Sport.
Editors: Jean Ross and Mary Butler
The 194 member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) met recently in Geneva for the annual United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. The delegation from Ecuador proposed a global public health resolution to encourage breastfeeding. The resolution stated that research evidence convincingly shows that mothers’ milk is healthiest for children, and called on governments to […]
Augmented Reality (AR) is a software technology that allows a virtual two- or three-dimensional (3D) computer generated image to be overlaid on a real environment. For medical and nursing students AR is part of an emerging suite of teaching technology that offers learners the opportunity to interact with a life-sized moving and breathing person, albeit […]
