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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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- Youth’12 overview: The health and wellbeing of New Zealand secondary school students in 2012
- Registered nurse assessment and treatment of skin sepsis in New Zealand schools: The development of protocols
- Nurse-led school-based clinics for skin infections and rheumatic fever prevention: Results from a pilot study in South Auckland
- Evaluation of the Canterbury under-18 seasonal influenza vaccination programme
- Assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions to prevent obesity: A systematic review of the effectiveness of 16 obesity prevention interventions
International Literature
- Self-care of school-age children with diabetes: An integrative review
- The WHO Health Promoting School framework for improving the health and well-being of students and their academic achievement (Cochrane review)
- School-based promotion of cessation support: Reach of proactive mailings and acceptability of treatment in smoking parents recruited into cessation support through primary schools (Netherlands)
- A randomized clinical trial of the efficacy of extended smoking cessation treatment for adolescent smokers (U.S.)
- Effectiveness of school-based smoking prevention curricula: Systematic review and meta-analysis
