Health Topics A–Z

• Abuse - Family Violence
• Acid reflux
• Acts and Regulations
• ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
• Adverse Events
• Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART)
• AIDS - see HIV/AIDS
• Alcohol (www.ndp.govt.nz)
• Allergies
• Alternative Medicine - Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
• Alzheimer's disease
• Annual Reports
• Anorexia
• Antenatal Screening:
  • Antenatal Screening for Down Syndrome
  • Antenatal Screening for HIV
• Antibiotic resistance
• Anxiety
• Apple Moth - Painted Apple Moth Eradication Operation West Auckland
• Arthritis, rheumatoid
• Asian Health
• Asset Testing
• Assisted Human Reproduction
  • National Ethics Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction (NECAHR)
• Assisted Reproductive Technology
  • Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART)
  • Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ECART)
• Asthma
• Athlete's foot
• Atopic eczema
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Auditing Agencies for the Designation of Healthcare Services and Aged Care Audit Tool
• Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products Authority Project (ANZTPA)
• Avian Flu - Information about Avian Influenza A (H5N1)
  • Pandemic influenza
  • Influenza
• Awards - Health Awards and Scholarships

• B4 School Check
• Back pain
• Best Treatments - free online health information
• Biosecurity and quarantine
• Bird flu - Information on Avian Influenza A (H5N1)
• Blood pressure, high
• Breast Prosthetis Subsidy
• Breastfeeding
  • National Breastfeeding Advisory Committee
  • National Breastfeeding Promotion Campaign
• Breast-milk Substitutes - Implementing and Monitoring the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes in New Zealand
• BreastScreen Aotearoa
• Bronchitis
• Bulimia

• Calendars of Health events
• Campylobacter
• Cancer Control
  • Cancer Control Council
  • Cancer-related publications
  • National cancer treatment waiting times data
  • Bowel cancer
    • Bowel (Colorectal) Cancer Screening Programme for New Zealanders
  • Breast cancer
  • Colon cancer
  • Lung cancer
  • Melanoma
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Pancreas cancer
  • Prostate cancer
  • Rectal cancer
  • Skin cancer
• Cannabis (www.ndp.govt.nz)
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Care Plus
• Caseload Monitoring Reports
• Cartright Inquiry 1988
• Certification of Healthcare Services (HealthCert)
• Cervical Cancer Audit
• Cervical Screening (National Screening Unit)
• Child abuse
• Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC)
• Child health
• Chlamydia
• Chlamydia Screening
• Cholesterol
• Clinical Training Agency in New Zealand
• Cochrane Library
• Colorectal cancer
• Committees - Health Committees
• Communicable Diseases
  • Communicable Diseases Publications
  • Communicable Diseases Control Manual
• Complaints
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine (www.cam.org.nz)
  • Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health (MACCAH)
• Conferences
• Constipation
• Consultation documents
• Consumer information
• Contact Lens subsidy
• Contacts
  • New Zealand Health and Disability Sector Contacts
• Contraceptives and blood clots
• Copyright
• Core Competencies - for mental health workforce: see Let's get real
• Cot Death - See Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)
• Counties-Manakau District Health Board
• Creche - Te Whare Hauora Ministry of Health Early Education Centre
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

• Dance Party Guidelines
• Dementia
• Dental subsidy
• Departmental Forecast Reports
• Depression
• Depression Initiative (National)
• Designation of Auditing Agencies
• DHBs (District Health Boards)
• Diabetes
• Dioxins
• Disability
  • Publications
  • Environment Support Services development programme
  • NASC National Information System
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder work programme
  • Home Based Support Services training initiative
• District Health Boards
  • District Health Board maps
  • District Health Boards publications
  • District Health Board Elections
• Doctors fees
• Drinking Water
  • Public Health Risk Management Plans
• Drug policy in New Zealand
  

• Ear infection
• Eczema
• Elderly - see Health of Older People
• Elective Services
• Electronic Datasets - Caseload Monitoring Reports
• Eligibility for Publicly Funded Health Services
• Emergency Management
• Emergency Departments
• Emphysema
• Employment
• Endometriosis
• Epilepsy
• Environmental Health
  • Environmental Health Officers Qualifications Regulations 1993: Recognition of Overseas Qualifications
• Erection problems
• Ethics Committees
  • Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (www.ecart.health.govt.nz)
  • National Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC)
  • Health and Disability Ethics Committees
  • National Ethics Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction (NECAHR)
  • Regional Ethics Committees
• Exotic Mosquitoes
• Events Calendars
• Eyes, Artificial

• Family Violence
• Feedback
• Fertility problems
• Floods - general health advice for people in flood areas
• Flu
  • Bird flu - Information on Avian Influenza A (H5N1)
  • Swine flu - Influenza A (H1N1)
• Fluoridation
• Folate/Folic Acid
• Food
• Fruit in schools
• Funding

• Gambling - see Problem Gambling
• Gender reassignment surgery
• Genital warts
• Giardia
• Gisborne Cervical Screening Inquiry (www.csi.org.nz)
• Glue ear
• Gonorrhoea
• Green Prescriptions
• GP visits

• Hay fever
• Head lice
• Health Act review and the proposed Public Health Bill
• Health and Disability Ethics Committees
• Health and Disability Intelligence
• Health and Disability Non-Government Organisations
• Health and Disability Safety Standards - frequently asked questions
• Health and Disability Sector Contacts (formerly the New Zealand Health and Disability Sector Directory)
• Health Awards and Scholarships
• Health Calendars - events, special days and weeks
• HealthCert - Certification of Healthcare Services
• Health Committees
• Health Conferences
• Health Domain
• Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Bill
• Health Education Resources
• Health Expenditure - see Funding and Health Expenditure
• Health Impact Assessment Support Unit
• Health Information Strategy Action Committee (HISAC)
• Healthline
• Health Network
• HealthPAC - see Sector Services
• Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act
• Health Service Providers System
• Health (Screening Programmes) Amendment Bill
• Health Targets
• Health Workforce Advisory Committee (HWAC)
• Healthy Eating Healthy Action (HEHA)
• Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO)
• Heart attack
• Heart failure
• Heartburn
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Herpes
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• HIV/AIDS
  • Antenatal Screening for HIV
• Hormone replacement therapy
• Hospitals - public hospitals
• Hospitals - list of certified providers of hospital and rest home services
• Hospital surgical activity (www.nzhis.govt.nz)
• HPV - Immunisation
• Hubba Hubba website
• Human Tissue
• Hyperactivity

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• Immunisation
  • Immunisation publications
  • Meningoccocal B Immunisation Programme
  • National Immunisation Register (NIR)
• Incontinence
• Inequalities:
  • Reducing Health Inequalities
• Infant formula:
  • Soy-Based Infant Formula - Parent Information
• Infertility
• Influenza
  • National Influenza Immunisation Strategy Group (NIISG)
  • Influenza Vaccine FAQs
  • Influenza A (H1N1)
• Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care) Act
• Intensive Care
• International Health Regulations Review
• Iodine Status in New Zealand

• Jobs

• Kava

• Leading for Outcomes
• Let's get real
• Let's talk teeth
• Lewy body dementia
• Library and Information Centre (Ministry of Health)
• Licensing: Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001
• Long-Term Conditions

• Macrons
• Mammograms
• Māori Health
  • Maori Health Innovations Fund
• Maps:
  • Maps of DHB districts
  • Problem Gambling Geography
• Maritime Declaration of Health
• Maternity
• Maternity Services - Eligibility
• Measles
• Media releases
• Medical Certificate of Cause of Death forms (HP4720 and HP4721)
• Medical Training Board
• Medicine Issues
• Medicines Control
• Meningococcal Disease
• Menopause
• Men's Health
• Mental Health
  • Mental Health Publications
  • Let's get real
• Migraine
• Ministerial Advisory Committees
• Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health (MACCAH)
• Morning sickness
• MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus Aureus)
• Multiple sclerosis
• Mum2Be

• Nail infection, fungal
• National Breastfeeding Committee
• National Cervical Screening Programme
• National Collection Annual Maintenance Project (NCAMP)
• National Depression Initiative
• National Drug Policy
• National Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC)
• National Ethics Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction (NECAHR)
• National Health Committee (NHC)
• National Health Emergency Plan (NHEP)
• National Influenza Immunisation Strategy Group (NIISG)
• National Immunisation Register (NIR)
• National Screening Unit
• National Service and Technology Review Advisory Committee (NSTR)
• National Systems
• National Travel Assistance (NTA) Scheme
• Nationwide Service Framework Library - www.nsfl.health.govt.nz
• Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme (NMSP)
• New Prescribers Advisory Committee (NPAC)
• Newsletters
• New Zealand Health and Disability Sector Contacts (formerly the New Zealand Health and Disability Sector Directory)
• New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS)
• New Zealand Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO)
• New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000
• Nicotine addiction
• Nitrous Oxide
• Non-Government Organisations (NGO)
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)
• Notifiable diseases
• Nurse Practitioners in New Zealand
• Nursing in New Zealand
• Nutrient Reference Values
• Nutrition
  • Healthy Eating Healthy Action (HEHA)
  • Obesity

• Obesity
• Older people
• Oral Health
• Oral contraceptives and blood clots
• Organochlorines
• Osteoarthritis

• Pacific Health
• Painted Apple Moth Eradication Programme - Health Effects Reports
• Palliative care
• Pandemic influenza
• Panic attacks
• Parkinson's disease
• Pelvic inflamatory disease
• Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC)
• Periods (heavy)
• PHOs (Primary Health Organisations)
  • List of Established PHOs
• Physical Activity
  • Healthy Eating Healthy Action
• Pneumonia
• Population Based Funding
• Porirua Healthlinks Trust - ICAH pilot project
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy
  • Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women
• Primary Health Care
  • Your Choices...Your Health
• Prescription fees
• PRIMHD (Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data)
• Privacy information
• Problem Gambling
• Prostate, enlarged
• Publications
• Public Health
• Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC)
• Public Health Intelligence - see Health and Disability Intelligence
• Public Health Bill
• Public Health Workforce Development - www.publichealthworkforce.org.nz
• Public Hospitals

• Quality and Safety Project
• Quality Improvement and Innovation
• Quarantine - information about biosecurity and quarantine
  

• Recommended Dietary Intakes
• Reducing Health Inequalities
• Refugee Health
• Regional Ethics Committees
• Regulatory Impact Statements
• Requests for Proposals
• Requirement for Vessels Arriving in New Zealand - Maritime Declaration of Health
• Residential Care
• Rest Homes - list of certified providers of hospital and rest home services
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• RMO (Resident Medical Officer) Commission
• RSS news feeds
• Rural Health
  • Centre for Rural Health
  • Rural Innovations Fund (RIF)

• SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Scabies
• Scholarships -see Health Awards and Scholarships
• Screening - National Screening Unit
• Sector Services
• Service Planning and New Health Intervention Assessment (SPNIA)
• Sewerage
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• SIDs - See Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)
• Ships - Maritime Declaration of Health
• Slipped disk
• SMO (Senior Medical and Dental Officers) Commission
• Smoking -Tobacco Control and Smoking Information
  • Smoking - Second hand smoke
  • Smoke-free legislation
  • Smokefree law changes - resources
  • Nicotine replacement therapy
• SNOMED CT® (www.nzhis.govt.nz)
• Soy-Based Infant Formula - Parent Information
• Special High Cost Treatment Pool
• Spending - see Health Expenditure
• Statement of Intent
• Statistics
• Statutory Bodies
• Stomach ulcers
• Strategies
• Stress incontinence
• Stroke, care and prevention
• Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)
• Suicide Prevention
• Swine flu - Influenza A (H1N1)

• Te Hiku O Te Ika - ICAH pilot project
• Te Uru Kahikatea - Public Health Workforce Development Plan
• Tissue - Human Tissue
• Tobacco Control and Smoking Information
• Toxic Shellfish Poisoning
• Training
  • Clinical Training Agency in New Zealand
• Travel - National Travel Assistance (NTA) Scheme
• Travel - Health Information
• Treaty of Waitangi Deed of Settlement
• Tuberculosis

• Unflued Gas Heaters

• Vacancies
• Vaccination
  • Immunisation
• Varicose veins
• Vascular dementia
• Violence
• Voluntary Bonding Scheme

• Water - see Drinking-Water
• Well Child
• Wig and Hairpiece subsidy
• Wisdom teeth, impacted

• Yellow Fever
• Your Choices...Your Health
• Youth health