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A Portrait of Health
Key results of the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey
Public Health Intelligence Occasional Bulletin No 21
Date of publication: August 2004
HP 3869
A Portrait of Health presents key findings of the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey. The report includes a detailed description of the survey methodology, as well as information on the prevalence of chronic diseases, the prevalence of health risk and protective factors, the use of a wide range of health services, and self-reported health status.
The 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey involved face-to-face interviews with approximately 13,000 adults living in private dwellings in New Zealand (including the Chatham and Pitt Islands) and included more Māori, Pacific and Asian participants than ever before. The survey was well received, with over 70 percent of people approached completing a questionnaire.
A Portrait of Health is a descriptive report and cannot do justice to the depth of information potentially available from the survey. Rather, it is intended to draw the attention of users and researchers to the breadth of the survey and inform further analyses.
Document availability
This publication is not available in hard copy. It is only available on this website in Word and PDF formats below.
A Portrait of Health (Word, 1.22MB)
A Portrait of Health (PDF, 2.01MB)
Preliminaries (PDF, 118kB)
Chapter 1 "Introduction and Methodology" (PDF, 384kB)
Chapter 2 "Chronic Diseases" (PDF, 419kB)
Chapter 3 "Risk and Protective Factors" (PDF, 525kB)
Chapter 4 "Health Service Utilisation" (PDF, 542kB)
Chapter 5 "Self-reported Health Status" and references (PDF, 1.25MB)
The 2002/03 NZHS questionnaire is also provided below as a PDF file.
Health Survey Questionnaire (PDF, 641 kB)
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