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Disability and Work Participation in New Zealand: Outcomes Relating to Paid Employment and Benefit Receipt

This report adds to current understanding of the extent to which disability-related barriers limit participation in society and provides an improved evidential basis for policy analysis…

Mainstream Smoke Emissions from 'Roll-Your-Own' Loose Leaf Tobacco Sold in New Zealand

Mainstream Smoke Emissions from 'Roll-Your-Own' Loose Leaf Tobacco Sold in New Zealand analyses the smoke emissions from several ‘regular’ and ’mild’ brands of loose (Roll-Your-Own) tobacco…

Men and Health: A literature review

This review critically examines literature about men and their health status to inform considerations about men’s health in New Zealand.  

Suicide Prevention: A review of evidence of risk and protective factors, and points of effective intervention

This review was commissioned by the Ministry to help inform its development of the draft New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy, which was released April 27 2005…

Suicide Prevention in New Zealand - A contemporary perspective: Social explanations for suicide in New Zealand

In 2001, the Ministry commissioned a series of studies exploring a range of social epidemiological explanations for the trends in New Zealand's suicide rates to 1999.In…

OSCAR Programmes: Evaluation of the Ministry of Social Development’s Package of Assistance

This report presents the findings and conclusions from an evaluation of the Ministry of Social Development’s package of assistance to Out-of-School Care and Recreation (OSCAR) programmes.…

Safer Sex Evaluation

The Ministry of Health funded an advertising summer campaign (2004/2005) to promote safer sexual health practices. The key goal for the advertising campaign was for at…

Growth in Numbers of Sickness and Invalids Benefit Recipients

This research paper is intended to report on an analysis that uses the MSD benefit dynamics data set to advance our understanding of the growth in…

Outcome / impact evaluation of Family Start

The Outcome/Impact Evaluation report contrasts national prevalence statistics available for factors such as smoking and breastfeeding with the outcomes reported for Family Start clients. These should…

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

ECT is used mainly in the treatment of severe depressive episodes. It involves the passage of an electric current across the head of a person to…