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Why should child welfare and schools focus on minimising placement change as part of permanency planning for children?

Social Work Now, Issue 41, pages 19-27. For every child, education is critical to successful transition to adulthood. The need of foster children for a stable…

Kin care – Understanding the dynamics

Social Work Now, Issue 41, pages 4-11. In Aotearoa New Zealand many children, both Māori and Pākehā, have been taken in by whānau and extended family…

Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women: A background paper

This background paper supports three of the key priorities of the New Zealand Health Strategy (Minister of Health, 2000) – namely, to:improve nutritionincrease physical activityreduce obesity.Food…

Mental Health: Service Use in New Zealand 2005

This publication is the fifth New Zealand Health Information Service mental health publication to present data from the Mental Health Information National Collection.Data for clients seen…

Development and Implementation of a National Funding and Service System for Hearing Aids: Stage One Interim Report

This report is the first stage of a wider project that aims to develop and implement a system that will provide the Ministry with a cost-effective…

Healthy Eating – Healthy Action, Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau - Progress on Implementing the HEHA Strategy 2008

The Healthy Eating, Healthy Action: Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau, Progress on implementing the HEHA strategy 2008 document will inform a wide range of audiences -…

Effectiveness of Intervention Services for Problem Gambling - Implementation 2004-2007

In March 2006 the Ministry contracted for services to provide a better understanding of the range of treatment approaches used in New Zealand, and whom they…

Māori and Informal Caregiving: A background paper prepared for the National Health Committee

This paper explores Māori informal caregiving in the context of whānau. Included in this paper is the definition of whānau, which is discussed in detail, and…

Health Targets: Moving towards healthier futures, 2007/08: The results (amended 17 Oct)

Summary from the Director-General of Health, Stephen McKernanI am pleased to present the results of the first year of Health Targets – 2007/08. When we launched…

Cardiac Surgery Services in New Zealand - Cardiac Surgery Service Development Working Group Report

This report aims to review:the current level of cardiac surgery provision in New Zealand compared to other countriesvariation in provision of cardiac surgery by region within…