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Let's get real: Real Skills for people working in mental health and addiction

It is explicit in stating the expectations for people who work in mental health and addiction treatment services irrespective of their role, discipline or position in…

Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand

Supportive care and rehabilitation encompasses ‘the essential services to meet the physical, emotional, nutritional, informational, psychological, sexual, spiritual, and practical needs throughout a person’s experience with…

Problem Gambling - Barriers to Help Seeking Behaviours: Implementation 2004-2007

AUT was contracted by the Ministry of Health in March 2006 to: examine the experiences of gamblers and their family/whānau when seeking and obtaining help for…

Health Expenditure Trends in New Zealand 1996-2006

Health Expenditure Trends in New Zealand 1996-2006 provides a basis for identifying and measuring trends and changes in the patterns of health and disability expenditure in…

Working Together for Better Primary Health Care

This report presents the Workforce Taskforce's findings and recommendations for overcoming barriers to workforce change and innovation in primary health care.The Taskforce identified the following five…

Environmental Influences on Obesity & Children's Nutrition in Aotearoa New Zealand

Keeping Up to Date’ aims to increase awareness of the reasons to use evidence in practice, to stimulate debate about evidence, and to encourage the health…

Evaluation of the Whanganui-a-Tara Courts and Health (WATCH) Project

The Whanganui-a-Tara Courts and Health (WATCH) Project was implemented from October 2006 to March 2007 to reduce repeat offending and improve health outcomes for young adult…

Problem Gambling Intervention Services in New Zealand

This report presents and summarises the data collected by problem gambling service providers in 2007. It provides an overview of clients who have sought help via…

Review of Research on the Effects of Imprisonment on the Health of Inmates and their Families

A growing and changing prison population has renewed interest in the effects of incarceration on the health of prisoners in many countries.Prisoners comprise a number of…

Eating practices in New Zealand families and whanau

This document presents findings on family and whānau eating practices from two major research projects undertaken by the HSC.