This report presents key findings for Pacific peoples from the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey, including energy and nutrient intake, dietary supplement use, eating patterns, food security, and nutrition-related health (eg, body size, blood pressure and diabetes).
Pacific health resources
Publications
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Published 02 October 2010The Faiva Ora National Pasifika Disability Plan sets out Government priority focus areas for Pacific disability from 2010 to 2013.
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Published 02 April 2010These guidelines address measures to improve the safety of customary tattooing and are of relevance to tattooists, public health units and Medical Officers of Health.
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Published 02 April 2010These guidelines address measures to improve the safety of customary tattooing and are of relevance to tattooists, public health units and Medical Officers of Health.
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Published 02 March 2010'Ala Mo'ui sets out the priority outcomes and actions for the next five years that will contribute towards achieving better health outcomes for Pacific people, families and communities.
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Published 02 December 2009In June 2008 the initial findings for adults and children from the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey were released in A Portrait of Health: Key results of the 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey. The publication A Focus on the Health of Māori and Pacific Children focuses specifically on findings for Māori and Pacific children that were not explored in the initial report.
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Published 02 June 2008The Pacific Provider Development Fund (PPDF) Purchasing Strategy 2008/09 is an interim purchasing strategy that guides funding and purchasing decisions for the Ministry of Health and District Health Boards from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. The strategy defines the term 'Pacific provider', provides high-level guidance on the the PPDF's goals, principles, vision and objectives, and explores administrative roles and funding categories.
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Published 02 February 2008An overview of the literature on Pacific cultural competence in health care including definitions of Pacific cultural competence, rationale for and benefits of cultural competence, competence measures and mechanisms, role of Pacific cultural competence in service quality and recommendations for the New Zealand health and disability sector.
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Published 02 February 2008This paper, part of the Pacific Health and Disability Plan Review series, brings together available information and evidence about Pacific child health in New Zealand. It describes the determinants of child health: families, housing, education, deprivation; identifies and discusses risk and protective factors: parental behaviour, nutrition, physical activity and access to health services; poor health outcomes: high infant mortality, high ambulatory-sensitive hositalisation rates high respiratory and infectious diseases, high levels of skin infections, ear infections, poor oral health and overweight and obesity. Relevant interventions to improve child health are also discussed.
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Published 02 February 2008This paper, part of the Pacific Health and Disability Plan Review series, brings together available information and knowledge about Pacific peoples’ experience of disability, including disability prevalence, describes support services, identifies issues and inequalities and draws conclusions about Pacific peoples’ experience of disability in New Zealand.
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