Health Targets: Moving towards healthier futures, 2007/08: The results (amended 17 Oct) Last Publication Date: 17 Oct 2008 Summary from the Director-General of Health, Stephen McKernan I am pleased to present the results of the first year of Health Targets – 2007/08. When we launched…
Guidance for Improving Supportive and Rehabilitative Care for Adults with Cancer in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 16 Sep 2008 Supportive care and rehabilitation encompasses ‘the essential services to meet the physical, emotional, nutritional, informational, psychological, sexual, spiritual, and practical needs throughout a person’s experience with…
Environmental Influences on Obesity & Children's Nutrition in Aotearoa New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Sep 2008 Keeping Up to Date’ aims to increase awareness of the reasons to use evidence in practice, to stimulate debate about evidence, and to encourage the health…
Eating practices in New Zealand families and whanau Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2008 This document presents findings on family and whānau eating practices from two major research projects undertaken by the HSC.
The Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in New Zealand in 2007 Last Publication Date: 02 Jul 2008 The 2007 meningococcal disease annual report provides detailed information on the incidence and distribution of meningococcal disease, the basis for diagnosis, clinical features and outcome and…
A Portrait of Health: Key results of the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey Last Publication Date: 04 Jun 2008 Portrait of Health is the first release of key descriptive findings from the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey. Analyses have been presented by gender, age group,…
Cancer Mortality Projections: 2000-2004 Update Last Publication Date: 02 Jun 2008 This report updates the cancer mortality projections produced by Public Health Intelligence in 2001, using newly available data for the 2000 to 2004 period.Such projections are…
Schools' Progress Towards Meeting National Administration Guideline (NAG) 5 on Food and Nutrition Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008 These earlier reports should be used for historical perspective – many of our more recent reports replace these and are more current and up to date. Mission-On…
Health and well-being and family/whanau functioning Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008 The family environment is an important influence on a wide range of social and health outcomes and there is general agreement that strong families lead to…
New Zealand children's food and drink survey Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008 A survey of 1,133 parents and caregivers of 5- to 16-year-old children, and 547 5- to 16-year-old children. The data describes attitudes and behaviours towards food…