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Website: Health Research Council of New Zealand
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Last Publication Date: 1 Jul 2010
A systematic review of current evidence of youth-specific social marketing interventions that imporved outcomes for young people. This review describes successful social marketing campaigns that have…
Last Publication Date: 2 Mar 2009
While Māori have lower life expectancy, greater morbidity and higher rates of disability, they have less access to health and rehabilitation services than do non-Māori. The…
Last Publication Date: 1 Feb 2009
The Effective Occupational Health Interventions in Agriculture: key characteristics of their development and implementation in New Zealand project sought to update the knowledge base on injury…
Last Publication Date: 1 May 2008
Le Ala’ is a community action research project led by Pacific people from a range of academic and clinical disciplines. It aims to increase Pacific peoples’…
Last Publication Date: 1 Apr 2008
Concerns remain about chronic health problems experienced by former timber workers who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) when it was used as an anti-sapstain fungicide treatment…
Last Publication Date: 1 Dec 2006
This review of the peer-reviewed research literature was compiled as an output of the 2004-2006 COHFE project Addressing Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Meat and Seafood Processing,…
Last Publication Date: 23 Nov 2006
The purpose of this report is to provide information for people whose interest is primarily in substance use disorders, rather than mental health in general. It…
Last Publication Date: 2 Oct 2006
The National Primary Medical Care Survey (NatMedCa) was undertaken to describe primary health care in New Zealand, including the characteristics of providers and their practices, the…
Last Publication Date: 2 Aug 2006
The overall aim of the report is to review the Ministry of Health Hauora Māori Scholarship Programme(HMSP). The report examines its contribution to developing the capability…
Last Publication Date: 1 Apr 2006
This report presents selected findings for young ‘Asian’ New Zealanders from the Youth 2000 national secondary school youth health survey.