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Qualitative Study of Elderly Pacific Informal Caregivers of a Young Person with an Illness or Disability

This research describes the experiences of elderly Pacific caregivers caring for young people with a chronic illness or disability, and what they need to support their…

Suspected Cancer in Primary Care: Guidelines for investigation, referral and reducing ethnic disparities

The guideline aims to alert primary care practitioners to features that should raise their suspicion of cancer, so they can refer patients early for further investigation.The…

Fetal and Infant Deaths 2005

Annual statistical publication that collates and analyses information on the causes of fetal and infant deaths registered in New Zealand.

Where Next for Primary Health Care Organisations in New Zealand?

This paper sets out a synthesis of five reports commissioned by District Health Boards New Zealand and the Ministry of Health as part of their ‘change…

Evaluation of the Māori Provider Development Scheme

The purpose of the evaluation was to assess how effective the Māori Provider Development Scheme (MPDS) has been at building the capacity and capability of Māori…

Critical analysis of the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy implementation and framing of issues for the next phase

This paper represents the first part of a two-stage project ‘Where Next for Primary Health Care Development in New Zealand?’ that was undertaken by Judith Smith,…

New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008-2012 Report on Progress: Year One

The 'New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008-2012 Report on Progress: Year One' provides a snapshot of the key developments in the first year of implementing…

Design and assessment of a school‐based circuit training programme for the promotion of physical activity, fitness and movement competency

Physical inactivity in NZ children is a major growing public health concern. Recent information from the Ministry of Health (2003) has shown almost a third (31%)…

Intentional Self-harm Hospitalisations 2007 (provisional)

This release presents and summarises admissions to hospital for intentional self-harm during 2007, sourced from the New Zealand National Minimum Dataset. The data is provisional.

Foundations of Excellence: Building Infrastructure for Medical Education and Training

In September 2008 the Medical Training Board (MTB) released a series of documents on the medical workforce and on the need to achieve integration and coordination…