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New Zealand’s Community Renewal Programme in an International Context: A Literature Review

Community Renewal’ is the name given to a social housing urban renewal initiative developed and led by HNZC in New Zealand. The Community Renewal programme is…

A Comparison of Māori and Non-Māori Patient Visits to Doctors

The report uses the data on visits by Māori and non-Māori patients at community-based general practices. Information was logged on 6,384 visits by Māori with a…

Towards Accessible, Effective and Resilient After Hours Primary Health Care Services

The After Hours Primary Health Care Working Party (the Working Party) made fifteen recommendations aimed at ensuring accessible and effective after hours primary health care services…

Focus on families: Reinforcing the importance of family

This report has helped guide the Families Commission work on families with dependent children. It combined and discussed results of a literature review, focus groups, and…

Public Health Depression Initiative: Benchmark Survey

This benchmark survey was undertaken to inform the scoping of a Public Health Depression Initiative. • Interviews were completed with 1301 persons aged 16 years and…

Young people and infringement fines

The Minister for Courts, the Honourable Rick Barker announced a review of the ‘Infringement System’ in March 2004. The review is being led by the Ministry…

Methodologies for analysing the impact of public policy on families

Government policies have both positive and negative impacts on New Zealand families. The challenge for policymakers is to anticipate and understand potential impacts. This report recommends…

Focus on families

This report has helped guide the Families Commission work on families with dependent children. It combined and discussed results of a literature review, focus groups, and…

Professional Development in Early Childhood Settings: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES)

This synthesis addresses the question of:“What constitutes quality professional development as it relates to learning opportunities, experiences and outcomes for children within diverse early childhood provisions?”…

Measuring the cost of children: Concepts and methodologies

This Families Commission report reviews some of the main concepts and methodologies in the cost of children literature. It does not attempt to arrive at cost…