The concept of cultural safety arose in Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu/New Zealand in the late 1980�s in response to the differential health experience and negative health outcomes of the first nation people of Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu/New Zealand, the New Zealand Maori. It was introduced and developed by Maori nurses initially, as they recognised the effect culture had on health and understood safety as a common nursing concept. The concept of cultural safety has developed into a disipline which is taught as part of all nursing and midwifery curricula in Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu/New Zealand. As cultural safety has developed the concept of culture has been extended to include people who differ from the nurse by reason of: age, migrant status, sexual preference, socioeconomic status, religious persuasion, gender, ethnicity, and in Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu/New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi status of the nurse and recipient/s of her/his care. Nationally and internationally, health experience and health outcomes are poorer for people of minority group status than for people who are part of the dominant group. Public-health research is therefore generally conducted on, or with, people with minority group status. Public-health researchers, by education, are members of the dominant culture and may be unaware that their own and their clients; responses may relate to one/other or both cultures being diminished do not always ensure the safety of their own culture or the culture being researched. This study�s objective was to develop a flexible, culturally safe public health research framework for researches to use when researching people who are culturally different from themselves. The study will argue that the use of such a framework will contribute significantly to improved health outcomes for people with minority status and will assist the movement towards emancipatory social change. The methods undertaken included: gaining permission from Irihapeti Ramsden, the architect of cultural safety to undertake the research, conducting a literature review, consideration of primary sources and their key concepts, consulting widely with people in the field of public health and cultural safety, self reflecting on the writers own personal and professional experience and finally designing the culturally safe public health research framework.

Universal Health Care Coverage is one important policy recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) to governments in both developed and developing countries (WHO, 1999, 2000). Thailand implemented a policy of universal coverage of health care to enhance its health care coverage (UC) scheme. It is therefore difficult to evaluate policy effectiveness without specified criteria for evaluating the framework through which one could apply policy effectiveness without specified criteria for evaluating the framework through which one could apply policy evaluation tools. The first paper of this three paper series identified potential evaluation criteria for the universal health care coverage program by analysing experiences of developed countries in achieving universal health care coverage and the reform programs they implemented. The second paper identified and examined the criteria for evaluation of the Universal Health Care Coverage scheme in Thailand which reported on qualitative data gathered by the researcher through in-depth interviews with six top executives of private hospitals in Thailand. / These findings from the top executives of private hospitals have been instrumental in exploring the impacts to health providers, the health care practice and public policy for the UC implementation which explored by using different views of criteria for evaluating the UC program from the experience of developed countries. The final paper discusses their connection to theory and explores the views of health providers about which criteria to include, as well as the relationship between intermediate and core criteria, particularly with regard to being strategic in selecting performance problems for priority attention. / The complete series of research papers should prove to be a valuable reference resource and hopefully a guiding compass in assisting Thailand in the continuing implementation and reform of the Universal Health Care Coverage plan. / Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007.

Thesis (D. Miss.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1988. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-201).

Thesis (M. P. H.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007. / Title from title page screen, viewed on March 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Amee Adkins (chair), Zeng Lin, Dianne Gardner, Jacklyn Ruthman. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-127) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M. P. H.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming, 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Conservatory of Music and Dept. of Psychology. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006. / "A dissertation in music education and health psychology." Advisor: Robert Groene. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Nov. 1, 2007 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-141). Online version of the print edition.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, 2007. / Title from title screen (viewed June 28, 2007). Includes tables and questionnaires. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2006. Includes bibliography. Also issued in print.

Zugl.: Halle (Saale), Universiẗat, Diss., 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-398) and index.