Resources

Resources

This webpage gives you additional resources related to the health topics.

These resources include downloadable datasets, indicator metadata, and links to other webpages, and data sources. Metadata gives details about how an indicator is defined and analysed.

Environmental health

You can find in-depth information, statistics and metadata on the Environmental Health Indicators website, www.ehinz.ac.nz.

Alcohol-related harm

Comprehensive datasets of the alcohol-related harm indicators are available below. These are available as Excel spreadsheets by districts, territorial authority (TA), and area unit (AU). These datasets contain the data shown on Healthspace, as well as additional indicator variations and a wide range of groupings of years of data not shown on Healthspace (such as two-year, three-year, five-year, and ten-year groupings). Areas with large populations can obtain more detailed data, while areas with small populations can obtain a wider range of data that can be displayed on Healthspace in some cases.

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Health status

The Health Status indicators include data from (i) the Ministry of Health’s New Zealand Health Survey regional data, and (ii) analyses of Ministry of Health National Collections datasets, carried out by the EHI team. New Zealand Health Survey data is available at the Ministry of Health’s website (see the NZHS regional data explorer).

Analyses of the Ministry of Health’s hospitalisations, cancer registrations and mortality dataset were produced for Districts Health Profiles, by the EHI team. The Health Profiles spreadsheets show the state of health in a Districts. The state of health in each area is compared over time and to the general state in New Zealand. Health profile data for each District, and related metadata, are available from the health profiles section of the EHI website. Excel spreadsheets for territorial authorities can be requested by emailing: ehinz@massey.ac.nz.

Population information

The statistics that describe New Zealand’s population come from the 2013 Census of Population and Dwellings, and the 2013 New Zealand Index of Deprivation.

For more information, visit the following websites:

Māori health

The data about Māori health comes from a variety of sources, including:

  • health status indicators produced by the EHI team (see the Health Status section above)
  • New Zealand Health Survey regional results (see the NZHS regional data explorer)
  • Ministry of Health statistics about immunisation coverage and children’s oral health (see the Ministry of Health’s website, www.health.govt.nz).

Pacific people’s health

The data about Pacific people’s health comes from a variety of sources, including:

  • New Zealand Health Survey regional results (see the NZHS regional data explorer)
  • Ministry of Health statistics about immunisation coverage and children’s oral health (see the Ministry of Health’s website, www.health.govt.nz).

Mental health

The data about mental health comes from a variety of sources, including:

  • health status indicators produced by the EHI team (see the Health Status section above)
  • New Zealand Health Survey regional results (see the NZHS regional data explorer).

Child and youth health

The data about child and youth health comes from a variety of sources, including:

  • New Zealand Health Survey regional results (see the NZHS regional data explorer)
  • Ministry of Health statistics about immunisation coverage and infant births and deaths (see the Ministry of Health’s website, www.health.govt.nz).

Other data sources

Ministry of Health

NIWA

ESR