Kōrero: Child and youth health

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

• Bounce

  A youth-led project developed by the New Zealand Red Cross which provides information on how to live well.

• Brainwave

  A charitable trust which highlights the importance of brain development in the early years of life.

• Child Poverty Monitor

  An annual report on the relationship between child health and socio-economic status.

• Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee

  This site provides reports and data on child and youth deaths.

• Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Unit

  Information about the Dunedin Study – a longitudinal study of a cohort of people born in 1972 that includes a wide range of information about child and youth health and family health.

• Evolve

  A Wellington youth health service that includes general, sexual and mental healthcare, counselling, social support, and youth development activities and groups.

• KidsHealth

  A health information site created by Starship Foundation and the Paediatric Society of New Zealand.

• Ministry of Health – child and youth health data and stats

  Statistical publications and data sets on child and youth health.

• The Lowdown

  A site to help young people deal with depression.

• Stand Tū Māia

  A charity which provides a range of social services for children, including therapeutic care and education in children's villages.

• Youthline

  A teen crisis helpline that provides peer support for young people.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

• Bryder, Linda, ed. A healthy country: essays on the social history of medicine in New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991.

• Bryder, Linda. A voice for mothers: the Plunket Society and infant welfare 1907–2000. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.

• Coney, Sandra (updated by Margaret Sparrow in 2018). 'Health organisations.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.

• Craig, E. and others. Monitoring the health of New Zealand children and young people: indicator handbook. Auckland: Paediatric Society of New Zealand and New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service, 2007.

• Dow, Derek A. Safeguarding the public health: a history of the New Zealand Department of Health. Wellington: Victoria University Press, in association with the Ministry of Health and with the assistance of the Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1995.

• New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service. The health of Pacific children and young people in New Zealand. Dunedin. University of Otago, 2008. PDF

• New Zealand Mortality Review Data Group. Child and youth mortality review committee: 13th data report 2012–16. Dunedin: University of Otago, 2018. PDF

• Public Health Advisory Committee. The best start in life: achieving effective action on child health and wellbeing. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2010.

• Simpson J. and others. Te ohonga ake: the health status of Māori children and young people in New Zealand series two. Dunedin: University of Otago, 2017. PDF

• Tennant, Margaret. Children’s health, the nation’s wealth: a history of children’s health camps. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books and Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1994.