Issues Paper 01: Separated Parenting- What separating parents need when making care arrangements for their children Last Publication Date: 28 Aug 2009 This Families Commission issues paper discusses the importance of promoting and investing in cooperative parenting and looks at options for change that would provide more equity,…
Evaluation of the Primary Mental Health Initiatives: Summary Report Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2009 The Report describes the evaluation of the first 26 of the Ministry of Health’s funded Primary Mental Health initiatives which was conducted between June 2005 and…
Intentional Self-harm Hospitalisations 2007 (provisional) Last Publication Date: 02 Aug 2009 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.
Beyond Reasonable Debt Part 2: The extent to which financial behaviour can explain over-indebtedness amongst New Zealand families Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 The Families Commission and Retirement Commision have jointly released this second report on debt. The study found that financial behaviour (notably not saving and living pay-to-pay ‘most'…
A review of how the training of the New Zealand health workforce is planned and funded: a proposal for a reconfiguration of the Clinical Training Agency Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 New Zealand has significant problems in recruiting, training and retaining adequate numbers of appropriate health and disability services workers. This is most likely to worsen.The planning…
Effectiveness of Youth Court Supervision Orders: Measures of Re-offending Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 This research reports on the effectiveness of Youth Court supervision orders in reducing the frequency and seriousness of re-offending. It was conducted to provide information on…
Evaluation of 'Parenting Through Separation' Programme Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 Parental separation is a common occurrence in New Zealand and other western countries. Research indicates that parental separation is often associated with negative outcomes for children…
We’re a Family: A study of how lesbians and gay men are creating and maintaining family in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 Lesbians and gay men can face significant challenges as they seek to create and maintain families that include children but in most cases they overcome these…
Who Cares for People with Schizophrenia: Family carers' health, circumstances and adjustment Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009 Family carers of people with schizophrenia are an important part of the mental health sector landscape, yet there are few studies of representative samples to inform…
Cancer: New Registrations and Deaths 2005 – Revised edition Last Publication Date: 02 Jul 2009 This annual statistical publication collates and analyses data on primary malignant tumour cases diagnosed in New Zealand, as reported to the New Zealand Cancer Registry.The NZ…