This annual statistical publication presents suicide information received from the New Zealand Mortality Collection, and admissions to hospital for intentional self-harm sourced from the New Zealand National Minimum Dataset. Introduction Suicide and suicidal behaviours continue to be a major public health issue in New Zealand. Every year more than 500 New Zealanders take their lives...

This consultation paper explores what legislative reforms, and other changes, would be needed if New Zealand were to become a party to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products. Overview Since 2005 New Zealand has been a party to an international treaty that aims to prevent harms from tobacco use, developed by the...

This report provides demographic information about the disabled people allocated support services funded by New Zealand's Ministry of Health. Overview This report provides demographic information about the disabled people allocated the majority of disability support services funded by the Ministry of Health’s Disability Support Services (DSS), that is: home and community support, carer support, community...

Explores the increase in obesity over a 36 year period to 2013 and investigates the impact of obesity on different birth cohorts. Summary Obesity is New Zealand’s leading modifiable risk factor for health loss. A number of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, ischaemic stroke and some cancers, are associated with excess body...

A focus on women who gave birth, and the babies who were born, in New Zealand in 2012. Summary In 2012, 62,321 women were recorded as giving birth. This equates to a birth rate (the proportion of females aged 15–44 years in the population) of 68.9 per 1000 females of reproductive age, similar to the...