Ministry of Health
Updated 21 May 2012 by admin
Funding Organisation
- Website
- http://www.health.govt.nz/
- Location
- National
- Postal Address
PO Box 5013
Wellington
New Zealand- Address
1-3 The Terrace
Wellington
New Zealand- Organisation Type
- Other Government, Ministry of Health
- Research Abstracts
- Healthy Eating - Healthy Action. Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau: Progress on implementing the HEHA strategy 2008.
- Summative review of food and nutrition initiatives in schools and early childhood education settings: Final report
- Overview of the evaluation of the eleven primary health care nursing innovation projects
- Vitamin D status of New Zealand adults: Findings from the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey
- Food and nutrition guidelines for healthy children and young people (aged 2–18 years): A background paper
- Assessment of the business case for the management of adult morbid obesity in New Zealand
- The Living Well Project: Summary of findings
- Does the family environment contribute to food habits or behaviours and physical activity in children? A report prepared by the Scientific Committee of the Agencies for Nutrition Action June 2008.
- Lifestyle and obesity in South Pacific youth: Baseline results from the Pacific Obesity Prevention In Communities (OPIC) Project in New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Australia.
- Evaluation of the implementation and intermediate outcomes of the Primary Health Care Strategy: First report
- Body size technical report: Measurements and classifications in the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey.
- An evaluation of Mission-On initiative one: Appendix A: Technical supplement - Computer assisted telephone interview data
- Cost effectiveness report of public health interventions to prevent obesity
- Review on healthy urban planning.
- Integrating health impact assessment in urban design and planning: The Manukau experience
- Auckland metro HEHA implementation strategy: Perceptions analysis: August - October 2006
- A focus on nutrition: Key findings of the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey
- Influences in childhood on the development of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
- Assessment of pregnancy and parenting programmes in the Lakes DHB District and the influence on breastfeeding statistics.
- Government walking the talk: Audit tool.
- Food and nutrition guidelines for healthy children and young people (aged 2–18 years): A background paper - Draft for consultation
- Review on international evidence linking health and the urban built environment.
- Taking a bite of the apple: The implementation of Fruit in Schools (Healthy Futures evaluation report to the Ministry of Health).
- A focus on the health of Māori and Pacific children: Key findings of the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey
- Physical activity: To increase physical activity: DHB Toolkit.
- Breastfeeding support in the Tairawhiti region: A formative evaluation.
- Nutrition and the burden of disease: New Zealand 1997-2011.
- Tatau kura Tangata: Health of older Maori chart book, 2011
- Food, food marketing and children: An exploratory investigation of the attitudes of New Zealand children to food and food marketing, 2008.
- Health and independence report
- Health and independence report.
- HEHA providers' survey: August - September 2006
- “What’s Happening in our Backyard?” HEHA Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Conference Programme.
- The New Zealand Physical Activity Questionnaires: Report on the validation and use of the NZPAQ-LF and NZPAQ-SF self-report physical activity survey instruments.
- Methodology report for the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey
- Physical activity and fitness measures in New Zealand: A study of validation and correlation with cardiovascular risk factors.
- Healthy Eating – Healthy Action. Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau Implementation plan: 2004–2010.
- Governance guide for Primary Health Organisations
- Nutrition labelling: Update of scientific evidence on consumer use and understanding of nutrition labels and claims
- Estimation of body fatness from body mass index and bioelectrical impedence: Comparison of New Zealand European, Maori and Pacific Island children.
- An evaluation of the ‘Swap2Win’ social marketing campaign: A Let’s Beat Diabetes initiative.
- Critical analysis of the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy implementation and framing of issues for the next phase
- Workplace wellness: A literature review for NZWell@Work.
- Healthy places, healthy lives: Urban environments and wellbeing
- Causes of excess hospitalisations among Pacific peoples in New Zealand: Implications for primary care
- Report on an evaluation of the Lifestyle Champions Project: Prepared for Sue McAuley, HEHA Project Manager, Wairarapa District Health Board.
- Diabetes: To reduce the incidence and impact of diabetes: DHB Toolkit
- Comprehensive plan to inform the design of a national breastfeeding promotion campaign.
- Food and beverage marketing in New Zealand: An analysis of 2007 advertising expenditure data.
- A stock-take of interventions and programmes aimed at childhood obesity prevention and management in New Zealand
- Obesity: To reduce the rate of obesity: DHB toolkit.
- Guidelines on physical activity for older people (aged 65 years and over)
- Improve nutrition: To improve nutrition: DHB Toolkit.
- Asian Health in Aotearoa in 2006-2007: Trends since 2002-2003
- Healthy Eating - Healthy Action. Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau: A strategic framework.
- Food and nutrition guidelines for healthy infants and toddlers (aged 0 to 2 years): A background paper
- Healthy Eating - Healthy Action: Evaluating New Zealand's obesity prevention strategy
- Evaluation of the Primary Health Care Strategy: Practice data analysis 2001-2005
- Healthy Eating – Healthy Action: Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau strategy evaluation: Interim report
- PAN Auckland 2010: Auckland metro HEHA implementation strategy - Draft
- Tatau Kahukura: Māori health chart book.
- Healthy Eating – Healthy Action: Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau strategy evaluation final report: Stocktake of HEHA initiatives II
- Nutrition and the burden of disease in New Zealand: 1997-2011.
- Summary evaluation report Fruit & Vegetable Intervention Study (‘Fresh for less campaign’) - a Let’s Beat Diabetes and Foodstuffs Ltd initiative.
- Clinical guidelines for weight management in New Zealand adults
- GRx Patient Survey (annually from 2010)
- The New Zealand Health Survey sample design, years 1-3 (2011-2013)
- 2009 School and early childhood education services food and nutrition environment survey: Phase III report
- The evaluation of the eleven primary health care nursing innovation projects
- A portrait of health: Key results of the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey.
- Grab A Bite That’s Right: Evaluation report.
- Metabolic equivalent (MET) intensities of culturally-specific physical activities performed by New Zealanders.
- Healthy action - healthy eating. Oranga Pumau – Oranga Kai: Towards an integrated approach to physical activity, nutrition and healthy weight for New Zealand: A summary of feedback on the draft for consultation.
- Strategies to address cultural barriers in order to promote healthy eating within the church environment [provisional title].
- Evaluation of food and nutrition initiatives in schools and early childhood education settings: Final report
- Objectives and tracking indicators for Auckland metro HEHA implementation strategy - Draft
- Re-thinking urban environments and health
- Urban planners' knowledge of health and wellbeing issues: A survey of urban planners for the Public Health Advisory Committee
- A portrait of health: Key results of the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey.
- A focus on Pacific nutrition: Findings from the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey
- Primary care practice and health professional determinants of immunisation coverage
- HEHA breastfeeding initiative Mum4Mum/Peer counsellor programme evaluation report.
- Clinical guidelines for weight management in New Zealand children and young people
- Socio-cultural factors associated with food security and physical activity for Maori and Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Exercise on prescription for women aged 40-74 recruited through primary care: Two year randomised controlled trial.
- Assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions to prevent obesity: A systematic review of the effectiveness of 16 obesity prevention interventions
- The health status of Pacific children and young people in New Zealand
- Healthy Eating - Healthy Action. Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau: Progress on implementing the HEHA strategy 2007.
- A national survey of children and young people's physical activity and dietary behaviours in New Zealand: 2008/09 - Key findings
- South Asian HEHA Project Report
- Food and nutrition guidelines for healthy pregnant and breastfeeding women: A background paper [Rev. ed].
- Developing a research agenda for Healthy Eating - Healthy Action: Oranga Kai - Oranga Pumau: HEHA Pre-symposium Hui - 20 June 2006; Research Symposium - 21 June 2006, Proceedings Report.
- Cardiovascular disease: To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease: DHB Toolkit
- The changing face of Fruit in Schools: The 2008 case studies (Final Healthy Futures evaluation report to the Ministry of Health)
- A focus on Māori nutrition: Findings from the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey
- The changing face of Fruit in Schools: 2009 overview report (Final Healthy Futures evaluation report to the Ministry of Health)
- Te Ohonga Ake: The health of Māori children and young people with chronic conditions and disabilities in New Zealand
- Assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions to prevent obesity: Overview report
- Food and beverage classification system for years 1-13.
- Do enhancements to the urban built environment improve physical activity levels among socially disadvantaged populations?
- Tracking the obesity epidemic: New Zealand 1977-2003.
- Did it fall or was it pushed? The contribution of trends in established risk factors to the decline in premature coronary heart disease mortality in New Zealand.
- SIGnposting Nutrition Study (SIGNS): Final report: Prepared for New Zealand Food Safety Authority and the Ministry of Health.
- HEHA needs analysis: Auckland region: Evidence review
- Tatau Kahukura: Māori health chart book, 2nd Edition
- The changing face of Fruit in Schools: Technical report (Final Healthy Futures evaluation report to the Ministry of Health)
- Does sedentary behaviour contribute to chronic disease or chronic disease risk in adults?
- Implementing the Clinical Guidelines for Weight Management in New Zealand 2010/11: Implementation plan
- Children, food and beverage marketing, and above-the-line media: A literature review.
- The Healthy Lifestyle Programme: A provincial obesity treatment programme, has it worked?
- Food and nutrition guidelines for healthy older people: A background paper
- Research Projects
- The Living Well Project
- Canterbury nutrition and physical activities programme (CNPAP)
- SIGNS: SIGnposting Nutrition Study
- Oral Health Survey
- Workforce Analysis Questionnaire
- Healthy Eating - Healthy Action: Oranga Kai - Oranga Pumau
- Project InterACTIVE
- Care Plus
- Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Children and Young People: A background paper
- Korikori-a-iwi
- New Zealand Child Nutrition Survey
- Youth2000: New Zealand youth: A profile of their health and wellbeing
- Nurses utilisation of evidence to inform practice
- New Zealand Census-Mortality Study (NZCMS)
- Green Prescription Communities Initiative
- Healthy Eating - Healthy Action: Oranga Kai – Oranga Pumau Evaluation Scoping
- CancerTrends
- The costs and complications of screening for prostate cancer
- Improving Stroke Recovery for Maori
- Southland Healthy Eating Healthy Activity Programme
- Mission On - Healthy, Confident Kids
- New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey (NZTUS)
- Enhancing Food Security and Physical Activity for Māori, Pacific and low income whanau/families
- Balance Me: Kia Totika Te Katoa, Child Nutrition Programme
- Green Prescription
- Feeding our Futures
- Te Wai o Rona: Diabetes Prevention Strategy
- A 20-year review of admissions to New Zealand public hospitals for dental care
- Improving the community management of diabetes by nurses in primary health care
- 2009 Cancer Care Survey
- Counties Manukau Active Families Strategy
- Healthy Eating Social Marketing Programme
- NZWell@Work
- Primary Health Care Strategy
- Urban environments and health
- New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS)
- Fruit in Schools
- Clinical Leadership and Quality
- New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey
- An internal examination of colorectal cancer management in New Zealand
- Children's activity in their local environment (from Play Strategy)
- PAN Auckland 2010 Strategy
- Baby Friendly Community Initiative
- Look Good Kai
- Project REPLACE
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