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Tauawhitia te Wero: Embracing the Challenge: National mental health and addiction workforce development plan 2006-2009

The Ministry of Health funded the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy (The University of Auckland) to produce a research report on general practitioners’ (GP)…

Social Explanations for Suicide in New Zealand

A suite of five reports, and a sixth summary report, has been produced as part of a contract the Ministry of Health held with the Wellington…

The Smoke is Clearing: Anniversary Report 2005

A first anniversary report assessing impacts of the Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act (2003) has found strong public support, increasing patronage trends in bars, and no significant…

Pacific Patterns in Primary Health Care: A comparison of Pacific and all patient visits to doctors

This study compares the experience of Pacific patients with that of the total population (including Pacific). The data was contributed by community general practices and A&M…

The Cost of Suicide to Society

The Cost of Suicide report estimates the cost of the 460 suicides and 5095 attempted suicides in 2002 to total $1,381,492,000 - nearly $1.4 billion. Each…

Prescribing information resources: Use and preference by general practitioners

The Ministry of Health funded the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy (The University of Auckland) to produce a research report on general practitioners’ (GP)…

Early Childhood Centres and Family Resilience

This report describes the main findings of the Early Childhood Centres and Family Resilience Study. The study examined whether early childhood centres were perceived by participants…

Working on the frontline: Sue Lightfoot discusses the impacts of secondary traumatic stress

Social Work Now, Issue 32, pages 28-32.There has been increasing attention over the past several years to the effects on staff of working in emergency situations,…

Making choices for change: Graeme Munford and Mike Garland outline the ‘Break Away Adolescent Stopping Offending’ course, a youth offending programme at the Lower North Youth Justice Residential Centre

Social Work Now, Issue 32, pages 23-27. The goal of the youth offending programme developed at Lower North Youth Justice Residential Centre in 2004 was to…

The New Zealand practice framework: Using knowledge to inform practice in care and protection

Social Work Now, Issue 32, pages 6-11.Clarifying the links between theory and practice, and between practice and the outcomes we hope to achieve for children within…