The Ministry of Health’s Hospital Throughput 2003/2004 Report Last Publication Date: 02 May 2006 This report provides hospital discharges by age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic deprivation, admission, and discharge types. The report also includes data on the average length of stay,…
Practice Makes Profit: Business Practices and Firm Success Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2006 Which business practices set successful firms apart from others? We address this question using data from an official survey of almost 3,000 New Zealand firms. Questions…
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening for New Zealand 2005 Last Publication Date: 02 Feb 2006 This report contains the findings and recommendations of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Group (UNHSAG) to the National Screening Unit (NSU) regarding high-level policy and…
Hei Whakamārama i ngā Āhuatanga o te Tūrua Pō - Investigating Key Māori Business Characteristics for Future Measures: Thinking Paper Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2005 This research paper provides a wider understanding of the characteristics of successful Māori businesses. The brief was to analyse thirty case studies and identify framework characteristics…
The Effects of Agglomeration on Economic Activity: The Empirical Evidence on Mechanisms and Magnitudes Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2005 There is a rapidly developing empirical literature on the effects of agglomeration on economic activity. This paper surveys recent studies that provide econometric estimates of effects.…
Working on the frontline: Sue Lightfoot discusses the impacts of secondary traumatic stress Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005 Social Work Now, Issue 32, pages 28-32. There has been increasing attention over the past several years to the effects on staff of working in emergency situations,…
Work values and the quality of employment: a literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 This paper reviews the literature on what people value in employment and on methods of measuring the quality of employment, with a view to measuring it…
The story so far: Peter Shaw, Kathy Fielding and Jessie Henderson outline the development of the On TRACC service Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 Social Work Now, Issue 31, pages 24-27. Since November 2003 the Transcultural Care Centre and Intersectoral Service for Children and Young People from Refugee Backgrounds and Their…
Meeting the challenge: Elements in Reducing and Managing Risk in Social Work Practice Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005 Social Work now, Issue 31, pages 8-11. In a number of high-profile cases involving the death of a child, it has been revealed that social workers handling…
Returning to work from injury Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2005 New Zealand has a comprehensive accident insurance system that pays much of the direct cost of accidental injuries, and compensates workers 80 percent of their earnings…
