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.

Displaying 1 - 15 of 87 results
  • Tatau Kahukura: Māori Health Chart Book 2024

    Publication date:

    Tatau Kahukura 2024 provides a snapshot of the health of Māori compared with non-Māori. It presents key indicators relating to the socioeconomic determinants of health, risk and protective factors for health, health status, health service use and the health system. Tatau Kahukura shows that Māori have higher rates than non-Māori for many health conditions and chronic diseases, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma.

    • Publication
    • Māori health
    • Statistics
  • Annual Update of Key Results 2023/24: New Zealand Health Survey

    Publication date:

    The Annual Data Explorer presents results from the 2023/24 New Zealand Health Survey, with comparisons to earlier surveys where possible.

    • Publication
    • Alcohol
    • Asian health
    • Child health
    • Diabetes
    • Disability
    • Drugs
    • Māori health
    • Mental health
    • Nutrition
    • Pacific health
    • Obesity
    • Older people (65+)
    • Oral health
    • Socioeconomic deprivation
    • Statistics
    • Surveys
    • Tobacco
  • Funding to Māori Health Providers 2018/19 to 2022/23

    Publication date:

    This report shows information on funding to Māori health providers by the Ministry of Health, Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka whai Ora for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23. This report follows on from our reports in 2017, 2021 and 2022 on the same topic and is part of our monitoring of Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2053.

    • Publication
    • Māori health
  • Annual Update of Key Results 2022/23: New Zealand Health Survey

    Publication date:

    The Annual Data Explorer presents results from the 2022/23 New Zealand Health Survey, with comparisons to earlier surveys where possible. Results are available by gender, age group, ethnic group, neighbourhood deprivation and disability status.

    • Publication
    • Alcohol
    • Tobacco
    • Obesity
    • Child health
    • Mental health
    • Māori health
    • Pacific health
    • Oral health
    • Statistics
    • Surveys
  • Ngā Wānanga Pae Ora 2023 – Summary Report

    Publication date:

    This document brings together the voices, reflections and themes raised at Ngā Wānanga Pae Ora 2023, which informed the development of Pae Tū: Hauora Māori Strategy and other Pae Ora health strategies.

    • Publication
    • Māori health
    • Wānanga September 2024
  • Summary report for the Rongoā Workstream

    Publication date:

    The summary report of engagement, prepared by Weaving Insights, was part of work led by Manatū Hauora for the rongoā workstream

    • Publication
    • Māori health
    • Therapeutic products
  • Pae Tū: Hauora Māori Strategy

    Publication date:

    As part of the health system transformation a range of strategies have been developed to help guide our health system to achieve pae ora, healthy futures. One of those is Pae Tū: Hauora Māori Strategy. It has been produced by Manatū Hauora and Te Aka Whai Ora.

    • Publication
    • Māori health
    • Health system
    • Wānanga September 2024
  • Racial Discrimination 2011/12, 2016/17 and 2020/21: New Zealand Health Survey

    Publication date:

    This report presents information on adults’ experiences of racial discrimination in the past 12 months and over their lifetime. This includes the experience of ethnically motivated personal attack (physical or verbal), and experience of unfair treatment in healthcare, employment or housing. Data was collected from the racial discrimination module included in the 2011/12, 2016/17 and 2020/21 New Zealand Health Survey.

    • Publication
    • Inequalities
    • Statistics
    • Asian health
    • Māori health
    • Pacific health
  • Whakamaua Quantitative Dashboard: Year Three

    Publication date:

    This publication is an interactive web tool showing a statistical overview of the 13 quantitative measures for Whakamaua: the Māori Health Action Plan 2020:2025

    • Publication
    • Māori health
    • Statistics
  • Funding to Māori Health Providers 2017/18 to 2021/22

    Publication date:

    This publication summarises funding to Māori health providers by the Ministry of Health and District Health Boards from 2017/18 to 2021/22. It follows on from our previous reports in 2017, 2021 and 2022.

    • Publication
    • Māori health
    • Health system
  • 2021 COVID-19 Māori Health Protection Plan: December 2022 Monitoring Report

    Publication date:

    The December 2022 Māori COVID-19 Monitoring Report provides an overview of progress made against the 2021 COVID-19 Māori Health Protection Plan (the Māori Protection Plan) between May and November 2022.The Monitoring report is a supplementary to the 2021 COVID-19 Māori Health Protection Plan (the Protection Plan).

    • Publication
    • COVID-19
    • Māori health
  • Whiria te Muka Tangata: Anti-Racism Systems Change

    Publication date:

    This publication outlines a preliminary systems change model that provides an organisational and system-level blueprint for anti-racism action in health.

    • Publication
    • Māori health

© Ministry of Health – Manatū Hauora