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He Tipu Harakeke: Recruitment of Māori in the Health and Disability Workforce

He Tipu Harakeke: Recruitment of Māori in the Health and Disability Workforce draws on the findings in Rauringa Raupa to provide a summary of the factors…

Literature Review on Models and Efficacy of Illegal Drug Social Marketing Campaigns

The Ministry of Health has identified a social marketing campaign as one potential way to contribute to a reduction in the harm associated with the demand…

Raising the Odds? Gambling behaviour and neighbourhood access to gambling venues in New Zealand

This report presents the key results of a study that investigated whether people's gambling behaviour was associated with their local gambling environment.This study found that there…

Tobacco Trends 2007: A brief update on monitoring indicators

Tobacco Trends is an annual monitoring publication reporting on Tobacco use behaviours. Indicators reported on annually include smoking prevalence, tobacco consumption and supply and tobacco use…

Monitoring Tobacco Use in New Zealand

Smoking is a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in New Zealand and is a major contributor to health inequalities. The need for collecting accurate…

Maternity Services Consumer Satisfaction Survey 2007

In 2007 the Ministry of Health commissioned a survey of approximately 3,000 women who had recently given birth to evaluate their level of satisfaction with the…

Alcohol Community Interventions and Services for Pacific Peoples - Stocktake Report

Le Ala’ is a community action research project led by Pacific people from a range of academic and clinical disciplines. It aims to increase Pacific peoples’…

Health Outcomes in Former New Zealand Timber Workers Exposed To Pentachlorophenal (PCP)

Concerns remain about chronic health problems experienced by former timber workers who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) when it was used as an anti-sapstain fungicide treatment…

New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008–2012

The New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008–2012 provides detail about how the goals of the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006–2016 will be achieved over…

The Health Status of Māori Male Prisoners: Key results from the Prisoner Health Survey 2005

The publication has been prepared by the Public Health Intelligence unit of the Ministry of Health for the Māori Health Directorate, and is based on the…