Integrated Care in New Zealand

Integrated care in New Zealand

BACKGROUND New Zealand's health system has long been seen as providing highly fragmented, poorly co-ordinated services to service users. A continuing policy challenge has been how to reduce such fragmentation and achieve more 'integrated' care, that is, 'co-ordinated' care that provides a 'smooth and continuous' transition between services, and a 'seamless' journey as service users receive heal...

Making sense of integrated care in New Zealand.

Integrated care is becoming a significant feature of New Zealand's current health system. Initiatives to date focus on service coordination or devolution of purchasing, which may be viewed as complementary approaches aimed at meeting a common goal of improving services. They are, however, likely to yield different benefits and pose different risks. This article outlines the background to curren...

Trampoline injury in New Zealand: emergency care.

OBJECTIVE To examine trampoline related injuries resulting in emergency department attendance. METHODS Cases were identified by searching free text descriptions of the circumstances of injury contained in the records of the emergency department of a large city hospital. RESULTS 114 cases were identified for a 12 month period, giving an incidence rate of 108 per 100,000 population per year (...

Primary health care in New Zealand.

Intercultural residential care in New Zealand.

Along with other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, New Zealand's society is aging such that an increase in the number of older people requiring residential care is predicted. What cannot be foreseen is how culturally defined health beliefs affect the care given to older people in residential care. In this article, the authors describe and discuss the cultur...