Fetal and Infant Deaths 2007 Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2010 The purpose of the Fetal and Infant Deaths publication series is to inform discussion and assist in future policy development. Readership of this publication is wide-ranging…
Ethnicity, National Identity and ‘New Zealanders’: Considerations for Monitoring Māori Health and Ethnic Inequalities Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2010 Measuring and monitoring Māori health depends on having high-quality, available ethnicity data, both in the health sector and in official statistics more generally. This paper discusses…
Improving and Maintaining Quality in Ethnicity Data Collections in the Health and Disability Sector Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2010 High quality ethnicity data has been an ongoing concern for the health and disability sector in New Zealand. While ethnicity data has been collected for a…
Gap Analysis of Specialist Palliative Care in New Zealand: Providing a national overview of hospice and hospital-based services Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2010 The purpose of the report was to determine how close hospice and hospital providers of specialist palliative care services were to meeting the new draft service…
Our Oral Health: Key findings of the 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2010 The 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey is the first nationwide survey to collect information on the oral health status of New Zealand adults and children…
Cancer patient survival covering the period 1994 to 2007 Last Publication Date: 02 Dec 2010 This publication supersedes the Cancer patient survival covering the period 1994 to 2003 publication released by the Ministry of Health in 2006. The cancer registration data analysed…
Hospital-based Maternity Events 2007 Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 This report is the third in a series of on-line publications reporting on hospital maternity data as recorded in the National Minimum Dataset. The publication includes…
Report of the South Island Neurosurgery Expert Panel Last Publication Date: 10 Nov 2010 This report presents to the Director-General of Health recommendations which ‘identify the development pathway that would best meet the requirement for a sustainable, high quality neurosurgical…
National Plan for Child Cancer Services in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 10 Nov 2010 The National Plan for Child Cancer Services in New Zealand has been developed by the Ministry of Health and the National Health Board in conjunction with…
Review of the policy of some DHBs no longer paying for laboratory tests referred by Private Specialists: Final Report Last Publication Date: 02 Nov 2010 In 2006, three District Health Boards (Hutt Valley and Capital and Coast, and then later Tairawhiti) were given permission to trial a policy to cease payments…
