Kōrero: Epidemics
Whārangi 7. Hononga, rauemi nō waho
Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki
Diseases and conditions
This section of the Ministry of Health website provides information about the Ministry’s work in relation to diseases and conditions.
Immunisation Advisory Centre
A nationwide organisation based at the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland which provides independent, factual information about immunisation.
Public health surveillance
This website, run by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), provides New Zealand public health surveillance data and information.
The 1918 influenza pandemic
A feature on the NZ History website.
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.
- Donovan, J. W. ‘A study in New Zealand mortality: 6. epidemic diseases.’ New Zealand Medical Journal 70, no. 451 (1969): 406–414.
- Dow, Derek A., and Ossi Mansoor. ‘New Zealand immunisation schedule history’, New Zealand Medical Journal 109, no. 1023 (1996): 209–212.
- Maclean, F. S. Challenge for health: a history of public health in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1964.
- Mills, C. F., M. Tobias, and M. Baker. ‘A re-appraisal of the burden of infectious disease in New Zealand: aggregate estimates of morbidity and mortality.’ New Zealand Medical Journal 115, no. 1155 (2002): 254–257.
- Rice, Geoffrey W. Black flu 1918: the story of New Zealand's worst public health disaster. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2018.
- Rice, Geoffrey W. Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand. 2nd ed. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005.
- Rice, Geoffrey W. ‘Influenza in New Zealand before 1918: a preliminary report’, American Journal of Epidemiology 187, no. 12 (2018): 2524–2529.
- Rice, Geoffrey W. ‘Remembering 1918: why did Māori suffer more than seven times the death rate of non-Māori New Zealanders in the 1918 influenza pandemic?’, New Zealand Journal of History 53, no. 1 (2019): 90–108.
- Wood, Pamela. Dirt: filth and decay in a new world arcadia. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005.
Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
Geoff Rice, Epidemics, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/160479/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).
He kōrero nā Geoff Rice, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011.