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Website: Health Research Council of New Zealand
Email: info@hrc.govt.nz
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2016
This three year research project funded in 2010 by the Health Research Council investigates how urban neighbourhood environments can facilitate children’s independent mobility (IM – outdoor…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2014
Active transport (e.g., walking, cycling) to school (ATS) can contribute to children’s physical activity and health. The built environment is acknowledged as an important factor in…
Last Publication Date: 8 Nov 2013
The aim of this project was to identify Māori life course research priorities, with a specific focus on wellbeing at the early stage of life, hapū…
Last Publication Date: 30 Sep 2013
This research report explores rehabilitative dental treatment provided to a small group of Māori mental health patients within the Western Bay of Plenty and how this…
Last Publication Date: 7 Jun 2013
The Distribution of Household Crowding in New Zealand: An analysis based on the 1991 to 2006 Census data looks at the distribution of exposure to household…
Last Publication Date: 13 Mar 2013
Pacific peoples have poorer health status across a wide variety of measures compared to the total New Zealand population. They also appear to have the least…
Last Publication Date: 1 Oct 2012
Early Start is an evidence-based, early intervention programme developed by Professor David Fergusson, from the Christchurch School of Medicine, in conjunction with local social service providers…
Last Publication Date: 1 Feb 2011
The Māori Disability Research Agenda aims to support research on Māori living with disability and their whānau/family. It has three objectives: Building quality evidence. Capability development.…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2011
The Ministry of Health and the Health Research Council of New Zealand funded Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare (University of Otago, Wellington) and seven…
Last Publication Date: 1 Nov 2010
This report presents trends in ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence of 28 cancers over a quarter of a century (1981–2004). It is the first…
