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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.…

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…

Like Minds, Like Mine National Plan 2007-2013

Like Minds, Like Mine is a programme to reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness.The programme, which began in 1997, is led by the…

The Impacts of Gambling (including PG) on Māori Communities - Implementation 2004-2007

The aim of this project was to carry out a formative investigation of the impacts of gambling (including problem gambling) on Māori communities/whānau/hapū/iwi. It is well…

Report on Exercise Cruickshank

Exercise Cruickshank was a whole-of-government influenza pandemic exercise led by the Ministry of Health. The exercise was held over 5 days in May 2007.Exercise Cruickshank was…

An Indication of New Zealanders’ Health 2007

An Indication of New Zealanders’ Health 2007 is the latest report in a series monitoring the health of the New Zealand population produced by Public Health…