Victor Luca, Whakatāne

14 August 2026 Cancer is a non-communicable disease, which together with cardiovascular disease, are responsible for about 60% of deaths in New Zealand. It is important to understand potential links between cancer and geography. Cancer rates (cancers/1,000/year) in selected districts around New Zealand. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are hardware, software, technologies, and tools that enable the storage, retrieval, visualization, and analysis of geographic features and

30 August 2022 , revised 6 February 2025 Health systems around the world can fall anywhere on a spectrum from what was once the totally...

Dr Victor Luca Published, Whakatāne Beacon, Wednesday 29-Dec-21 Air pollution is a leading cause of global mortality, being responsible...

Victor Luca, 22-Oct-20. The NZ health system is a mixed public-private system. A modern health system is a complex machine with many...

Victor Luca, 28-Sep-20. Published, The Beacon, 9-Oct-20. I have always been exceedingly grateful that we have in our country an...

Victor Luca, 18-Aug-20. Unpublished Despite the priveleged position we find ourselves in during this COVID-19 pandemic, we didn't get it...

Victor Luca, 4-Feb-20. During the most recent local body election cycle in our district I was asked at a September 2019 BOPDHB public...