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Tauawhitia te Wero: Embracing the Challenge: National mental health and addiction workforce development plan 2006-2009

The Ministry of Health funded the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy (The University of Auckland) to produce a research report on general practitioners’ (GP)…

Social Explanations for Suicide in New Zealand

A suite of five reports, and a sixth summary report, has been produced as part of a contract the Ministry of Health held with the Wellington…

The Smoke is Clearing: Anniversary Report 2005

A first anniversary report assessing impacts of the Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act (2003) has found strong public support, increasing patronage trends in bars, and no significant…

Pacific Patterns in Primary Health Care: A comparison of Pacific and all patient visits to doctors

This study compares the experience of Pacific patients with that of the total population (including Pacific). The data was contributed by community general practices and A&M…

The Cost of Suicide to Society

The Cost of Suicide report estimates the cost of the 460 suicides and 5095 attempted suicides in 2002 to total $1,381,492,000 - nearly $1.4 billion. Each…

Prescribing information resources: Use and preference by general practitioners

The Ministry of Health funded the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy (The University of Auckland) to produce a research report on general practitioners’ (GP)…

The Viewing Habits of Users of Sexually Explicit Movies: a Hawke's Bay sample

In this study, the Office of Film and Literature Classification and the Crime and Justice Research Centre of Victoria University of Wellington examined the viewing habits…

The Portrayal of Māori and Te Ao Māori in Broadcasting: the Foreshore and Seabed Issue

In late 2003, the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) commissioned research into the portrayal of Māori and te ao Māori in broadcasting. A team led by Te…

Mechanisms for setting broadcasting funding levels in OECD countries (December 2005)

In October 2005 the Ministry commissioned Unitec New Zealand to prepare a report on mechanisms for setting funding levels in OECD as part of the broadcasting…

Early Childhood Centres and Family Resilience

This report describes the main findings of the Early Childhood Centres and Family Resilience Study. The study examined whether early childhood centres were perceived by participants…