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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…

Supporting Evidence for Changes to the Content of the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework

In 2007 as part of the Well Child/Tamariki Ora Framework Review (the Review), the Ministry of Health developed this background paper setting out the evidence for…

Report on the consultation period for the proposal to expand the functions of PHARMAC

This report from Dr David Sage, former Chief Medical Officer for Auckland District Health Board, to the Minister of Health provides the outcomes of a period…

Credentialling Framework for New Zealand Health Professionals

The Ministry of Health published the first national credentialling document in 2001. Its focus was on the credentialling of senior medical practitioners in secondary and tertiary…

Cancer: New Registrations and Deaths 2007

This annual statistical publication collates and analyses data on primary malignant tumour cases diagnosed in New Zealand, as reported to the New Zealand Cancer Registry.The NZ…