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Measuring Health States: The World Health Organization Long Form Health Survey

Monitoring the self-reported health status of populations is an important input to health policy. Instruments commonly used to measure health status such as the SF-36 and…

Review of Neonatal BCG Immunisation Services in New Zealand

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant problem worldwide. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunisation is used in many countries as part of their TB control programme. The efficacy of…

Medicines New Zealand

Until now, there has been no overarching policy direction aligning the medicines sector and the systems that govern the regulation, procurement, management and use of medicines.…

The role of secure attachment as a protective factor for vulnerable infants

Social Work Now, Issue 38, pages 11-20. Children begin their lives entirely dependent on adults for survival. Bowlby (1969) believed that attachment behaviour was biological in…

Strengthening our engagement with families and understanding practice depth

Social Work Now, Issue 38, pages 21-28. Statutory child protection work is often viewed as the sharp end of social work practice, located in a turbulent…

Working with vulnerable infants

Social Work Now, Issue 38, pages 5-10. Infants are one of the most vulnerable groups of children referred to statutory child welfare systems, a fact research…

Post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder traits in the child welfare population

Social Work Now, Issue 38, pages 29-35. This article focuses on two conditions – post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traits of borderline personality disorder (BPD)…

Te Raukura: Mental Health and Alcohol and other Drugs: Improving outcomes for children and youth

Te Raukura: Mental health and alcohol and other drugs: Improving outcomes for children and youth draws together the key issues and priorities that have been identified…

Suicide Facts: 2005–2006 data

This report, part of a series of monitoring reports released annually, presents and summarises the latest suicide and intentional self-harm hospitalisation data available.

A research study of Young Carers: The development of a recording tool for agencies to identify young carers

This report by Michael Gaffney of the Children’s Issues Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, in association with Carers New Zealand was commissioned and funded by the…