Pacific health workforce service forecast: Report to Health Workforce New Zealand and the Ministry of Health:

Pacific Perspectives

22 September, 2014

This report considered ways to increase the number of Pacific peoples in the health workforce and improve outcomes for Pacific patients.

Housing market changes and their impact on children:

Johnson, A.

9 September, 2014

While this focus on housing shows that the issues are complex, the principal barrier to access to quality housing is the high price of housing compared to wages.

Our children, our choice: Priorities for policy:

Dale, M. C., O’Brien, M., & St John, S

9 September, 2014

In the advanced economy of Aotearoa New Zealand in 2014, child poverty is now more entrenched and difficult to address than when Child Poverty Action Group published Left further behind in 2011.

NZMA policy briefing: Tackling obesity:

New Zealand Medical Association.

6 September, 2014

Existing approaches to tackling obesity in New Zealand are not doing enough. New Zealand is now the fourth most obese country in the OECD, with nearly two thirds of adults either overweight (34%) or obese (31%).

A Systematic Review on the Impact of Point-of- Sale Tobacco Promotion on Smoking:

Robertson, L., McGee, R., Marsh, L. & Hoek, J.

30 August, 2014

The existing evidence supports a positive association between exposure to POS tobacco promotion and smoking. This review provides evidence to support the continuation of POS tobacco display bans in those jurisdictions where such legislation has been introduced and strengthens the evidence encouraging similar policies in jurisdictions without a POS display ban.

NZ Respiratory Research Review Issue 103:

27 August, 2014

focus on asthma

Modelling the implications of regular increases in tobacco taxation in the tobacco endgame:

Cobiac, L., Ikeda, T., Nghiem, N., Blakely, T., & Wilson, N.

21 August, 2014

Objective We examine the potential role for taxation in the tobacco endgame in New Zealand, where the goal is to become ‘smokefree’ (less than 5% smoking prevalence) by 2025.

NZ Respiratory Research Review Issue 101:

3 July, 2014

COPD

Results from a rental housing warrant of fitness pre-test:

Bennett, J., Chisholm, E., Hansen, R., & Howden-Chapman, P.

5 May, 2014

Housing is one of the key material determinants of health and well-being; shelter is a fundamental human need. New Zealand housing is of a lower quality than most OECD countries and several national surveys and research studies have shown that private rental housing is in poorer condition than either social housing, or houses that are owner occupied.

Child poverty and health:

Turner, N., & Asher, I.

5 May, 2014

The future health and wellbeing of any country is dependent on the well-being of its children. A much greater proportion of New Zealand children are affected by poverty now than 2-3 decades ago, with accompanying ill health.