About us Mō mātou

About the Ministry of Health and the New Zealand health system. 

Regulation & legislation Ngā here me ngā ture

Health providers and products we regulate, and laws we administer.

Strategies & initiatives He rautaki, he tūmahi hou

How we’re working to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

Māori health Hauora Māori

Increasing access to health services, achieving equity and improving outcomes for Māori.

Statistics & research He tatauranga, he rangahau

Data and insights from our health surveys, research and monitoring.

On this page

Data sources and methods: Ngā tapuae me ngā raraunga

Information on numerators and denominators, ethnicity classification, age-standardised and crude rates, confidence intervals, and rate ratios. This information can be found on pages 2 to 4 of the Māori Health Trends Report.

Demographics: Tatauranga taupori

The summary below presents the proportion of the New Zealand population that is Māori, how the population is aged-structured, and give population projections for the future.

Risk and protective factors: Ngā tauwehe tūpono me te marumaru

This section presents data on individual risk and protective factors comprising tobacco smoking, alcohol and drug use, nutrition (vegetable and fruit servings), body size, physical activity and gambling.

Health status indicators: Ngā mana hauora tūtohu

This section presents a range of indicators relating to health status, such as major causes of death, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and more.

Major causes of death

Cardiovascular disease

Cancer

BreastScreen Aotearoa and National Cervical Screening Programmes

Respiratory disease

Health status: diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, chronic pain, dementia

Infectious disease

Suicide and intentional self-harm

Oral health

Self-rated and mental health

Infant and child health

Unintentional injury

Health service use: Ngā ratonga hauora kua mahia

This section presents indicators that look at use of health services, with a focus on primary health care providers. It also includes indicators on prescriptions and unmet need for health care.

Health system indicators: Ngā pūnaha hauora tūtohu

This section presents measures of the performance of the health system, including publicly-funded hospital discharges, amenable mortality and ambulatory sensitive hospitalisation (ASH).

Health workforce: Ngā kaimahi hauora

This section presents the trends related to the health workforce data between 2004 and 2018.

Māori and non-Māori non-Pacific analysis

This section presents selected indicators comparing Māori with non-Māori non-Pacific, which were requested by claimants.

Body size

Cardiovascular disease

Cancer

Respiratory disease

Diabetes complications

Infectious diseases

Oral health

Mental health

Appendices: Tāpiritanga

This information can be found in appendices on pages 334 to 366 of the Māori Health Trends Report:

  • Māori and non-Māori non-Pacific data analysis
  • ICD codes used in the report
  • 2001 Census total Māori population
  • overview of breast and cervical cancer screening programmes
  • diabetes coding change
  • supplementary tables for health workforce. 

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