B Milne

Biographic Data

ID23949
NAMEB Milne
GIVEN NAMESB
FAMILY NAMEMilne
SIGNATUREMILNE B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Auckland
ORCID0000-0002-0318-1201
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS41
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Māori Health, Wellbeing, and Disability in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open AccessTristram Ingham, Bernadette Jones et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, experience wide-ranging inequities compared with non-Māori. This survey aimed to explore the holistic health, wellbeing, and disability experiences of New Zealand's Indigenous Māori population from a Māori worldview, addressing gaps in culturally relevant data often overlooked by standard health surveys. A robust cross-sectional survey was conducted with 7359 participants of Māori descent usin…

  • Identification of positive childhood experiences with the potential to mitigate childhood unhealthy weight status in children within the context of adverse childhood experiences

    Open AccessBrooklyn M Mellar, Maryam Ghasemi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    A critical number of PCEs may be required to mitigate the detrimental impacts of ACEs on weight status among children. These findings reinforce the need to consider a constellation of strength-focused ecological domains to alleviate the burden of childhood obesity, particularly for children exposed to multiple adversities

  • Going straight home? Housing stability and post-prison reoffending in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open AccessAlice Mills, Anika Terry et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2024

  • Including Marine-Related Items in the ISSP Environment Module is Important for a More Holistic Measure of Public Environmental Perceptions

    Open AccessKomathi Kolandai‐Matchett, B Milne et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Sociology2024References: 3

    In this study, we examine public perceptions of the importance of addressing marine ecosystem problems by including an item (which we treated as a dependent variable) in the Environment IV module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in New Zealand. Overall importance perception was high (mean rating of 4.44 on a 5-point scale). However, our hypotheses that ratings on ISSP items, which implicitly represent marine stressors (e.g., ai…

  • Who are the Māori “in-between”? Indigenous diversity and inequity across descent, ethnicity and Iwi knowledge

    L M Greaves, Cinnamon Lindsay Latimer et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2023

    Policies increasingly reinforce the self-determination of Indigenous peoples, but issues remain around group definitions. Colonization has led to (de)identification with Māori (New Zealand's Indigenous peoples) identity markers. We explore differences between Māori on combinations of descent, ethnicity and Iwi (extended kinship group) knowledge in the 2013 Census, and self-reported discrimination. There were six groups within the Māori descent po…

  • Measuring Māori Health, Wellbeing, and Disability in Aotearoa Using a Web-Based Survey Methodology

    Open AccessTristram Ingham, Bernadette Jones et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    High-quality evidence on the prevalence and impact of health, wellbeing, and disability among Māori, and other Indigenous peoples, is crucial for mitigating health inequities. Current surveys are predominantly centred within a biomedical paradigm, with the constructs mismatched with Indigenous worldviews. We aimed to develop and deploy an accessible and culturally grounded survey exploring Māori health, wellbeing, and disability using a Kaupapa M…

  • Settlement trajectories of nearly 25,000 forced migrants in New Zealand

    Open AccessJulia Marlowe, Arezoo Zarintaj Malihi et al.ARTICLEKōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…2023Cited by: 1References: 15

    Aotearoa New Zealand provides differential settlement support to forced migrants, primarily determined by how they receive protection status – as asylum seekers, refugees, or through other visa pathways. Despite these differences, there is limited quantitative evidence of their settlement outcomes related to work, social welfare, education and housing. In response, this study presents administrative data of adults from refugee backgrounds compose…

  • The environment a young person grows up in is associated with their mental health

    Open AccessMatthew Hobbs, Hobbs M et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Cited by: 3References: 68

  • As Long as It's Used for Beneficial Things’

    Open AccessThabrew H, Noor Aljawahiri et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2022References: 3

    The Aotearoa New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) is a national database containing a wide range of data about people and households. There is limited information about public views regarding its use for research.A qualitative study was undertaken to examine the views of forty individuals attending a large hospital in Auckland, including those of Māori ethnicity and young people. Semi-structured interview data were analysed using Brau…

  • Prevalence of Loneliness and Its Association With General and Health-Related Measures of Subjective Well-Being in a Longitudinal Bicultural Cohort of Older Adults in Advanced Age Living in New Zealand

    Open AccessRoy Lay-Yee, B Milne et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2022References: 5

    Our findings of adverse impacts on subjective well-being corroborate other evidence, highlighting loneliness as a prime candidate for intervention-appropriate to cultural context-to improve well-being for adults in advanced age

  • Social attitudes and activities associated with loneliness

    Open AccessRoy Lay-Yee, David E Campbell et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2021References: 11

    There has been growing recognition of the harmful consequences of loneliness for health and well-being, and the need for community intervention, particularly in times of global crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic with its imperatives of distancing, isolation, and quarantine. Social capital and a sense of social cohesion are known to have roles in buffering against the effects of adverse life circumstances. Our study sought to investigate the ass…

  • The Efficacy of Preschool Developmental Indicators as a Screen for Early Primary School-Based Literacy Interventions

    Open AccessPhilip J Schluter, Richard Audas et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    Literacy success lays the foundation for children's later educational, health, and well-being outcomes. Thus, early identification of literacy need is vital. Using data from New Zealand's national preschool health screening program for fiscal years 2010/2011–2014/2015, demographic and health variables from 255,090 children aged 4 years were related to whether they received a literacy intervention in early primary school. Overall, 20,652 (8.1%) ch…

  • Let the people decide? Support for referenda since the New Zealand flag change referendums

    Open AccessL M Greaves, Luke D Oldfield et al.ARTICLEKōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…2020References: 21

    The number of referenda taking place in established democracies has been increasing, but oftentimes the use of referenda is controversial. This paper utilises two New Zealand national probability mail surveys collected before (2015; n = 901) and after (2016; n = 1350) the controversial flag change referendums initiated by Prime Minister John Key. We found that support for referenda increased from 54.5% in 2015 to 70.7% in 2016. We examined how de…

  • Comparative study of attitudes to religious groups in New Zealand reveals Muslim‐specific prejudice

    Open AccessL M Greaves, Aarif A Rasheed et al.ARTICLEKōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…2020Cited by: 4References: 5

    The March 15th terrorist attack started a national dialogue about prejudice in New Zealand. Previous research has investigated attitudes towards Muslims in comparison to ethnic minorities. However, presently, there are no nationally representative studies in New Zealand systematically comparing attitudes to Muslims with attitudes to other religious groups. Here, we present evidence from the New Zealand edition of the International Social Survey P…

  • How low can we go? Declining survey response rates to new zealand electoral roll mail surveys over three decades

    Open AccessL M Greaves, Luke D Oldfield et al.ARTICLEPolitical Science2020Cited by: 7References: 5

    Quality survey research relies on the willingness of the public to participate, but survey response rates are decreasing over time. This research note explores response rate data from several national probability sample mail surveys drawn from a consistent sampling frame (the New Zealand electoral roll) over the past 30 years. The aim of this work is to document the scale of the response rate decline problem in mail survey studies, predict future…

  • Clustering of health, crime and social-welfare inequality in 4 million citizens from two nations

    Open AccessLeah S Richmond-Rakerd, Stephanie D’souza et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2020Cited by: 1References: 30

  • Determinants and disparities

    Open AccessRoy Lay-Yee, B Milne et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015References: 36

  • A collaborative approach to bridging the research-policy gap through the development of policy advice software

    B Milne, Roy Lay-Yee et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2014Cited by: 1References: 3

    We have developed a software-based tool to support a dynamic micro-simulation model of life-course development (to age 13) as an aid to policy makers assessing the impact of policies affecting children. We demonstrate how this approach bridges the research-policy gap by creating: (1) an easy transfer of evidence in a form that policymakers can use (for example, ‘What is the policy influence of X on Y?’); and (2) a ‘pull’ system of knowledge trans…

  • Characterizing Quartz Artefacts

    Open AccessRachel ten Bruggencate, Mostafa Fayek et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2014Cited by: 7References: 16

    Visual and geochemical analyses of 30 pre‐contact quartz tools from the C hurchill R iver basin of northern M anitoba were used to provisionally assess source provenance based on comparison to local quartz quarry data. The results indicate that tools made from quartz acquired from these quarries were transported and eventually deposited into archaeological sites up to 200 km away. Transport of this quartz, which is of relatively moderate quality,…

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Risk Factors for Age-Related Disease

    Andrea Danese, Terrie E Moffitt et al.ARTICLEArchives of Pediatrics and…2009

    OBJECTIVE: To understand why children exposed to adverse psychosocial experiences are at elevated risk for age-related disease, such as cardiovascular disease, by testing whether adverse childhood experiences predict enduring abnormalities in stress-sensitive biological systems, namely, the nervous, immune, and endocrine/metabolic systems. DESIGN: A 32-year prospective longitudinal study of a representative birth cohort. SETTING: New Zealand. PAR…

  • Links Between Anxiety and Allergies

    Open AccessAlice M Gregory, Avshalom Caspi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2009

    The objective of the study was to examine the link between anxiety and allergies to establish whether it reflects a psychobiological reality or a possible methodological bias. A cohort of 1,037 children enrolled in the study. Anxiety disorders were assessed between 11 and 21 years. Anxious personality was assessed at 18 years. Allergies were examined at 21 years by (a) self reports, (b) skin pricks, and (c) serum total immunoglobulin E (IgE). Sel…

  • Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men

    Open AccessMaria Melchior, Avshalom Caspi et al.ARTICLEPsychological Medicine2007

    Background Rates of depression have been rising, as have rates of work stress. We tested the influence of work stress on diagnosed depression and anxiety in young working adults. Method Participants were enrolled in the Dunedin study, a 1972–1973 longitudinal birth cohort assessed most recently in 2004–2005, at age 32 ( n =972, 96% of 1015 cohort members still alive). Work stress (psychological job demands, work decision latitude, low work social…

  • Socially Isolated Children 20 Years Later

    Avshalom Caspi, Henry Harrington et al.ARTICLEArchives of Pediatrics and…2006

    OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that children who occupy peripheral or isolated roles in their peer groups (isolated children) are at risk of poor adult health. DESIGN: Longitudinal study of an entire birth cohort. SETTING: Dunedin, New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1037 children who were followed up from birth to age 26 years. INTERVENTIONS: Measurement of social isolation in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Wh…

  • Association between child and adolescent television viewing and adult health

    Open AccessRobert J Hancox, B Milne et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2004

  • Going to the Birds

    B Milne, Stephen Milne et al.ARTICLEArctic Anthropology2004Cited by: 14References: 20

    The Mosquito Ridge site is located near the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak in the interior of south central Baffin Island. This plain supports hundreds of thousands of nesting waterfowl every year throughout the spring and summer. During the annual moult these birds present a rich and reliable food source for human populations in the region. Typically, subsistence strategies in the Arctic warm season are synonymous with caribou hunting and not with…