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The latest updates to this website are listed below:

February

10 Feb: Kōrero Mārama: Health Literacy and Māori - Results from the 2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
This report describes the health literacy skills of Māori compared to non-Māori in New Zealand, indicating that on average New Zealanders have poor health literacy skills.

January

29 Jan: Early Protection Immunisation Programme: Information pack
Early Protection Influenza Immunisation Programme Information Pack provides information for DHBS, PHOs, primary care providers and immunisation providers to administer the pandemic monovalent influenza vaccine.

29 Jan: Cancer Projections: Incidence 2004-08 to 2014-18
Updates projections of cancer incidence, to help cancer services planning, and projecting requirements for the oncology workforce.

27 Jan: Drug Use in New Zealand - Key results of the 2007/08 New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey
This report presents the key findings about recreational drug use and drug-related harm among New Zealanders from the 2007/08 New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey.

27 Jan: December 09 Mental Health Newsletter

22 Jan: How Should We Care for the Carers, Now and Into the Future? Manaaki tangata
This report makes recommendations to the Minister of Health about how to better support and provide services for informal carers. The Committee considers that informal carers need to be well supported in their role, to protect their health and wellbeing so they can provide care in a sustainable and positive way.

22 Jan: How do we determine if statutory regulation is the most appropriate way to regulate health professions? Discussion document
The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (the Act) provides a framework for regulating health professions to ensure the public is protected from harm when receiving health services. This discussion document discusses the criteria for regulating health professions and seeks comment on proposed revised criteria.

December

23 Dec: Clinical Guidelines for Weight Management in New Zealand Children and Young People

23 Dec: Gap Analysis of Specialist Palliative Care in New Zealand: providing a national overview of hospice and hospital-based services
This Phase 1 report provides an overview of the current provision of specialist palliative care in New Zealand and highlights gaps against the draft service specification.

21 Dec: A Focus on the Health of Māori and Pacific Children: Key findings of the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey
The findings presented in this report confirm that there are disparities both in health outcomes and in the exposure to risk and health behaviours between Māori and non-Māori children and between Pacific and non-Pacific children.

17 Dec: Issues in monitoring Māori health and ethnic inequalities: an update - publication now available online at www.ethnicity.maori.nz
Ethnicity data is essential to the measurement and monitoring of Māori health and inequalities in health status, experiences, and outcomes in New Zealand. Issues in monitoring Māori health and ethnic disparities: an update is one in a series of topic-based discussion papers considering ethnicity data issues. It discusses technical and practical issues that relate to the monitoring of Māori health and ethnic inequalities in health over time. It is part of a broader project funded by Te Kete Hauora, Ministry of Health to investigate issues with ethnicity data in New Zealand, and the implications of these for the Maori health and disability sector.

17 Dec: Suicide Facts: Deaths and intentional self-harm hospitalisations 2007

16 Dec: Latest Public Health Perspectives newsletter

14 Dec: Māori Smoking and Tobacco Use 2009
A profile summarising key facts about Māori smoking and tobacco use compared to non-Māori.

11 Dec: Nurse Practitioners - A Healthy Future For New Zealand
This publication celebrates New Zealand's first 50 Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and showcases the vital contribution they are already making to the health of New Zealanders and their communities around the country. It features stories from 20 NPs who are working in a diverse range of settings - in hospitals, aged care facilities, GP practices and out in New Zealand communities, rural and urban, and captures what it is to be an NP.

10 Dec: Health Workforce New Zealand (The Clinical Training Agency Board) website launched

9 Dec: Te Toi Hauora-Nui: Achieving excellence through innovative Māori health service delivery
Provides information about innovative service approaches to improving Maori health, with particular emphasis on cardiovascular and diabetes mellitus programmes delivered in the primary care setting.

9 Dec: Evaluation of Youth One Stop Shops
The objective of the Evaluation of Youth One Stop Shops was to assist the Ministry and District Health Boards (DHBs) to understand the current place of youth one stop shops (YOSS) in the continuum of health service provision, and provide an overview of how they provide health services for New Zealand youth.

7 Dec: Clinical Training Agency Purchase Intentions 2009/10
Provides accountability information about the expenditure of health and disability clinical training funding, communicates intended activity for the upcoming financial year, indicates potential future funding directions and service developments.

7 Dec: How to increase the delivery of effective smoking cessation treatments in primary care settings: Guidance for doctors, nurses, other health professionals & healthcare organisations

1 Dec: 2009/10 MPDS Annual Plan Maori Provider Development Scheme
The Maori Provider Development Scheme 2009/10 guides funding and purchasing decisions from the Ministry of Health and District Health Boards and, where relevant, Maori Co-Purchasing Organisations.