Publications

The Health and Independence Report is the Director-General of Health’s annual report on the state of public health in New Zealand. The 2018 report presents an overview of the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders drawing on a range of sources.

This publication is a maternity care data set standard for New Zealand, defining the information that must be recorded to support high-quality maternity care to women and their babies, and to provide structured and coded information for reporting and analytics.

Data standard and technical specifications to support COVID-19 contact tracing.

The Kia Kaha, Kia Māia, Kia Ora Aotearoa: COVID-19 Psychosocial and Mental Wellbeing Recovery Plan provides a national approach to supporting the mental and social wellbeing of New Zealanders in the COVID-19 recovery period.

This report presents the results of measurements of exposures to radiofrequency (RF) fields near 5G cellsites in Queenstown and Auckland

This Code of Practice for the Security of Radioactive Material is issued by the Director for Radiation Safety under section 86 of the Radiation Safety Act 2016. It provides details necessary to comply with the fundamental requirements in sections 9 to 12 of the Act. This code applies to the security of radioactive material, associated facilities and associated activities for the prevention of malicious acts intended or likely to cause harmful radiological consequences throughout the lifetime of the radioactive material whether it is in use, storage or transport.

This report summarises Dr Verrall's findings and makes recommendations for improvements to contact tracing to control COVID-19 in New Zealand.

The Initial COVID-19 Māori Response Action Plan establishes a framework to ensure the health and wellbeing of Māori is protected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 Health and Disability System Response Plan establishes a framework to prepare for and manage the national response to the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in New Zealand.

New Zealand has recently enacted a new legislative framework for abortion in New Zealand. This publication specifies a set of interim standards that the Ministry of Health expects all abortion service providers to comply with to ensure safe and effective services are available to all women considering or seeking an abortion