Integrated Approach to Infectious Disease - Priorities for Action 2002-2006

An Integrated Approach to Infectious Disease
Priorities for Action 2002–2006

Date of publication: November 2001

The goal of the Integrated Approach to Infectious Disease: Priorities for Action 2002–2006 is to address the New Zealand Health Strategy objective:

To reduce the incidence and impact of infectious diseases.

The Integrated Approach to Infectious Disease (IAID) complements and reinforces a number of other key goals and objectives in the New Zealand Health Strategy, including improving physical health, providing accessible and appropriate health care services, creating a healthy physical environment, and reducing inequalities in health status.

Infectious diseases significantly affect the health of New Zealanders. The incidence and impact of infectious disease are influenced by action not just in the health sector, but also in areas such as housing, agriculture and local government.

The IAID defines the priorities and strategies for management of infectious diseases, based on a broad, multisectoral view of infectious disease transmission and control. It has been developed by people working in the infectious disease sector, in consultation with other governmental and non-governmental agencies, and co-ordinated by the Ministry of Health.

Given limited resources, the IAID sets out key priorities for action at national and local levels over the next five years. The strategies in this document provide direction for the decisions that District Health Boards (DHBs) will make in the difficult task of allocating resources. This document also sets out essential intersectoral actions and policy priorities for central and local government agencies and provides the national framework within which DHBs will be operating.

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