The stewardship deficit in New Zealand health policymaking

Enhancing evidence use in public health nutrition policymaking: theoretical insights from a New Zealand case study

BACKGROUND Enhancing the use of evidence in policymaking is critical to addressing the global burden of nutrition-related disease. Whilst the public health nutrition community has embraced evidence-informed policymaking, their approach of defining relevant evidence and evaluating policy has not brought about major shifts in policymaking. This article uses a public health nutrition case study to...

Primary health care the New Zealand way.

Primary health care the New Zealand way In the Wairarapa region, in the southeastern corner of New Zealand's North Island, health officials have struck upon a novel yet effective way to treat often wary members of the local Maori population. Holly Else reports. Many Maori perceive hospitals and general-practice surgeries as unfriendly environments and can be reluctant to seek health care at the...

The measurement of New Zealand health care.

The effective and economical measurement of the quality and safety of health and disability services in New Zealand is of signal importance. The Health Quality and Safety Commission has overseen the introduction of an architecture of interacting measures. These include quality and safety indicators, or QSIs, which are whole-system measures; quality and safety markers, or QSMs, which are targete...

Public health funding mechanisms in New Zealand.

The funding of population-based public health services (health protection, health promotion and disease prevention) has received little attention in the international literature on health reforms, and yet these services are of fundamental importance to the health of populations and to the economy. This article provides justification for health policy-makers placing more emphasis on the level of...

Primary health care in New Zealand.