Budget 2013: Additional $21.3m to fight rheumatic fever

posted by Research Admin on 6 May 2013

Tony Ryall, Tariana Turia media release, 6 May 2013 The Government’s fight to reduce New Zealand’s high rate of rheumatic…

Reorienting the New Zealand health care system to meet the challenge of long-term conditions in a fiscally constrained environment

posted by HIIRC Admin on 11 Feb 2013

Published 2013. Author: Nicholas Mays.

Paper prepared for New Zealand Treasury Long-term Fiscal External Panel, November 2012, and Chair of Public Finance, Victoria University of Wellington and New Zealand Treasury conference, Affording our Future, Wellington, 10-11 December
(revised version)

Monitoring immigrant health and wellbeing in New Zealand: Addressing the tyranny of misleading averages

posted by HIIRC Admin on 16 Oct 2012

Published 2012. Authors: Jed Horner, Shanthi N. Ameratunga.

Australian Health Review, 36(4), 390-393

New WHO data highlight increases in hypertension, diabetes incidence

posted by Research Admin on 17 May 2012

The World health statistics 2012 report, released today, puts the spotlight on the growing problem of the noncommunicable diseases burden.…

A Pacific perspective on ageing and chronic illness

posted by Research Admin on 2 Mar 2011

Little is known about older Pacific people’s experiences of the impact of growing old with chronic conditions. Nicolette Sheridan shares…