Roy Lay-Yee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1726526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Lay-Yee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lay-Yee |
| SIGNATURE | LAY-YEE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6233-4979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Including Marine-Related Items in the ISSP Environment Module is Important for a More Holistic Measure of Public Environmental Perceptions
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…
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
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
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…
Scoping Review
We explore the intergenerational pattern of resource transfer and possible associated factors. A scoping review was conducted of quantitative, peer-reviewed, English-language studies related to intergenerational transfer or interaction. We searched AgeLine, PsycINFO, Social Work Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts for articles published between Jane 2008 and December 2018. Seventy-five studies from 25 countries met the inclusion criteria. The s…
Changing the balance of social care for older people
The demographic ageing of New Zealand society, as elsewhere in the developed world, has dramatically increased the proportion of older people (aged 65 years and over) in the population. This has major policy implications for the future organisation of social care. Our objective was to test the effects on social care use, first, of putative changes in the overall disability profile of older people, and second, of alterations to the balance of thei…
Determinants and disparities
A collaborative approach to bridging the research-policy gap through the development of policy advice software
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…
Jamsim
JAMSIM (JAva MicroSIMulation) is an innovative synthesis of open source packages that provides an environment and set of features for the creation of dynamic discrete-time microsimulation models that are to be executed, manipulated and interrogated by non-technical, policy-oriented users. Combining the leading open source statistical package R and one of the foremost agent-based modelling (ABM) graphical tools Ascape, JAMSIM is available as an op…
Patterns of family doctor decision making in practice context. What are the implications for medical practice variation and social disparities
Data Matching to Allocate Doctors to Patients in a Microsimulation Model of the Primary Care Process in New Zealand
The authors aimed to use existing data to create a microsimulation model of the primary care process in New Zealand, including realistically simulating the allocation of general practitioners (GPs) to a population sample. This is important because GP behavior is likely to be a major determinant of future cost and service outcomes. Two nationally representative data sets were matched: a sample of GPs and their patients from the National Primary Me…
Primary Care in an Aging Society
The authors describe the development of a microsimulation model of primary medical care in New Zealand for 2002 and demonstrate its ability to test the impact of demographic ageing, community support, and practitioner repertoire. Micro-level data were drawn from four sources: two iterations of the New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS 1996/1997 and 2002/2003); a national survey of ambulatory care in New Zealand (New Zealand National Primary Medical Car…
Do Hospital Bed Reduction and Multiple System Reform Affect Patient Mortality
BACKGROUND: The impact of hospital and system restructuring on the quality and pattern of care is an important issue of public policy concern. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect on patterns of care and patient outcomes of a substantial reduction in public hospital bed availability and multiple reorganizations in New Zealand through the 1990s. RESEARCH DESIGN: Trend analysis using both tabular and multilevel techniques. SUBJECTS: Access to discharge …
The “supply hypothesis” and medical practice variation in primary care
Early sex and its behavioral consequences in New Zealand
A steady trend towards earlier sexual intercourse is now well documented. However, the relationship of this development to trends in other early sexual formative experiences has not been explored, nor has there been an analysis of the longer‐term behavioral consequences. The data examined in this paper were drawn from a two‐stage national survey of sexual lifestyles on a sample of 2,361 adult New Zealanders in the age range 18–54. Techniques of s…
Coronary events and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
Our study found evidence for the adverse effects of exposure to ETS on risk of coronary heart disease among women, especially at home. For men the issue is unclear according to the data from our study. Additional studies with detailed information on possible confounders and adequate statistical power are needed. Most importantly, they should use methods for measuring exposure to ETS that are sufficiently accurate to permit the investigation of do…
Early sex and its behavioral consequences in New Zealand
A steady trend towards earlier sexual intercourse is now well documented. However, the relationship of this development to trends in other early sexual formative experiences has not been explored, nor has there been an analysis of the longer‐term behavioral consequences. The data examined in this paper were drawn from a two‐stage national survey of sexual lifestyles on a sample of 2,361 adult New Zealanders in the age range 18–54. Techniques of s…
Changing the balance of social care for older people
The demographic ageing of New Zealand society, as elsewhere in the developed world, has dramatically increased the proportion of older people (aged 65 years and over) in the population. This has major policy implications for the future organisation of social care. Our objective was to test the effects on social care use, first, of putative changes in the overall disability profile of older people, and second, of alterations to the balance of thei…
A collaborative approach to bridging the research-policy gap through the development of policy advice software
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…
Coronary events and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
Our study found evidence for the adverse effects of exposure to ETS on risk of coronary heart disease among women, especially at home. For men the issue is unclear according to the data from our study. Additional studies with detailed information on possible confounders and adequate statistical power are needed. Most importantly, they should use methods for measuring exposure to ETS that are sufficiently accurate to permit the investigation of do…
Early sex and its behavioral consequences in New Zealand
A steady trend towards earlier sexual intercourse is now well documented. However, the relationship of this development to trends in other early sexual formative experiences has not been explored, nor has there been an analysis of the longer‐term behavioral consequences. The data examined in this paper were drawn from a two‐stage national survey of sexual lifestyles on a sample of 2,361 adult New Zealanders in the age range 18–54. Techniques of s…
The “supply hypothesis” and medical practice variation in primary care
Do Hospital Bed Reduction and Multiple System Reform Affect Patient Mortality
BACKGROUND: The impact of hospital and system restructuring on the quality and pattern of care is an important issue of public policy concern. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect on patterns of care and patient outcomes of a substantial reduction in public hospital bed availability and multiple reorganizations in New Zealand through the 1990s. RESEARCH DESIGN: Trend analysis using both tabular and multilevel techniques. SUBJECTS: Access to discharge …
Primary Care in an Aging Society
The authors describe the development of a microsimulation model of primary medical care in New Zealand for 2002 and demonstrate its ability to test the impact of demographic ageing, community support, and practitioner repertoire. Micro-level data were drawn from four sources: two iterations of the New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS 1996/1997 and 2002/2003); a national survey of ambulatory care in New Zealand (New Zealand National Primary Medical Car…
Data Matching to Allocate Doctors to Patients in a Microsimulation Model of the Primary Care Process in New Zealand
The authors aimed to use existing data to create a microsimulation model of the primary care process in New Zealand, including realistically simulating the allocation of general practitioners (GPs) to a population sample. This is important because GP behavior is likely to be a major determinant of future cost and service outcomes. Two nationally representative data sets were matched: a sample of GPs and their patients from the National Primary Me…
Jamsim
JAMSIM (JAva MicroSIMulation) is an innovative synthesis of open source packages that provides an environment and set of features for the creation of dynamic discrete-time microsimulation models that are to be executed, manipulated and interrogated by non-technical, policy-oriented users. Combining the leading open source statistical package R and one of the foremost agent-based modelling (ABM) graphical tools Ascape, JAMSIM is available as an op…
Patterns of family doctor decision making in practice context. What are the implications for medical practice variation and social disparities
A collaborative approach to bridging the research-policy gap through the development of policy advice software
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…
Determinants and disparities
Changing the balance of social care for older people
The demographic ageing of New Zealand society, as elsewhere in the developed world, has dramatically increased the proportion of older people (aged 65 years and over) in the population. This has major policy implications for the future organisation of social care. Our objective was to test the effects on social care use, first, of putative changes in the overall disability profile of older people, and second, of alterations to the balance of thei…
Scoping Review
We explore the intergenerational pattern of resource transfer and possible associated factors. A scoping review was conducted of quantitative, peer-reviewed, English-language studies related to intergenerational transfer or interaction. We searched AgeLine, PsycINFO, Social Work Abstracts, and Sociological Abstracts for articles published between Jane 2008 and December 2018. Seventy-five studies from 25 countries met the inclusion criteria. The s…
Social attitudes and activities associated with loneliness
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…
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
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
Including Marine-Related Items in the ISSP Environment Module is Important for a More Holistic Measure of Public Environmental Perceptions
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…
Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Population (8 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · demographic modeling and climate adaptation (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (5 works)