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Alcohol and Pregnancy: A practical guide for health professionals

The purpose of this resource is to prompt and support primary care health professionals to:  ask women who are planning a pregnancy or are pregnant if…

An Evaluation of Moana House Residential Therapeutic Community

An evaluation to assess the impact of participation in the Downie Stewart Foundation Programme, Moana House, on the functioning and changes of its residents.

Focused literature review for the problem gambling programme - 2010

In 2010, HSC commissioned an updated literature review focusing on particular topics that were relevant to the problem gambling programme development. These included the risk factors…

National sun exposure survey 2009/10: Topline report

Started in 1994, this ongoing sun protection survey takes place every three years, and collects information on New Zealanders' sun protection behaviour and attitudes. Topline results…

Evaluating Health Impact Assessments in New Zealand

Are Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) worthwhile? Answering this question involves evaluating HIAs, and the purpose of this paper is to provide guidance on the evaluation of…

Unequal Impact II: Māori and Non-Māori Cancer Statistics by Deprivation and Rural-Urban Status 2002-2006

Unequal Impact II: Māori and Non-Māori Cancer Statistics by Deprivation and Rural-Urban Status 2002-2006 provides specific information about the unequal distribution of cancer outcomes for Māori…

Practice nurse cost benefit analysis: report to the Ministry of Health

This study uses the results of a literature review and data from nine New Zealand primary care practices, including general practitioner (GP) and nurse diaries recording…

Saving Lives: Amenable mortality in New Zealand, 1996-2006

The report re-examines the concept of amenable mortality (deaths potentially avoidable through health care) as a health system performance measure.Trends in amenable mortality over the past…

Changes to the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework

This document sets out the changes that are being made to the 2002 Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework (the Framework) following a major review.The document describes the…

Living Standards and Health: New Zealand 2006/07

The report 'Living Standards and Health: New Zealand 2006/07' compares two measures of living standards that were included in the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey, and…