Publications

This guideline is intended to provide clinical guidance on long COVID conditions in both children and adults in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This publication discusses the principle for healthy urban development and its connections with health, wellbeing and equity. It also describes how good urban design can protect and promote health, and improve wellbeing, equity and disability outcomes.

The Mortality web tool presents mortality and demographic data for selected causes of deaths registered in New Zealand from 1948–2019. Information about all deaths by ICD Chapter, ICD Subgroup, ICD three-character codes and demographics is available from 2010–2019.

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

This position statement is a declarative step for the Ministry of Health. It formally outlines the Ministry’s position on racism, and signals expectations for the broader health system to take collective action against all forms of racism and racial health inequity. The position statement also includes a set of evidence-informed working definitions for racism and anti-racism that are fit for the Aotearoa context.

This first literature review for Ao Mai te Rā traces how understandings of racism and anti-racism have shifted over time and explores various concepts, language and definitions that have been used to date. The Ministry has also created a summary paper to ensure the evidence, insights, and research from the literature review are accessible for the general public. 

The Ministry of Health has drafted a new HIV Action Plan with the support of community organisations representing people living with and affected by HIV and the health sector. This new HIV Action Plan strives to eliminate local transmission of HIV and ensure people living with HIV have healthy lives free from stigma and discrimination.

The Government has agreed to repeal and replace the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992. To begin a dialogue on what new mental health legislation should like in Aotearoa New Zealand, we ran public consultation between October 2021 and January 2022.

An independent peer review of the Health Service User (HSU) dataset that’s used to calculate COVID-19 vaccination rates has found it’s an appropriate way to measure vaccination coverage.

This publication sets the standard for abortion counselling in Aotearoa New Zealand.