Health and Wellbeing Resources
Ma te mōhio ka ora - Knowledge improves health and wellbeing!
This section of Webhealth holds information that covers a variety of topics that have been developed to provide useful resources covering local and national issues. Wherever possible these resources have had external input, particularly in checking that all information is accurate and to ensure quality information.
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Addictions [15 articles]
- CAGE Questionnaire, A Screening Test for Alcohol Dependence
- Cannabis and Your Health
- Drinking and You
- Drugs, Alcohol & The Law
- Get the Msg! New Zealand Drug Foundation
- Guidelines for Midland Regional Dual Diagnosis
- Host Responsibility for Christmas Parties
- How to be the Best Support Person
- Maori Traditional Health & Healing Information and Service Providers
- New Child Alert Hotline Launched
- Obesity Information
- Problem Gambling
- Tips for Self Care
- Want to quit smoking? Check out The Quit Group!
- What is Methamphetamine?
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Child Health [34 articles]
- Adolescent Oral Health
- Allergies
- Applying for a Protection Order
- Asthma
- Best Treatments
- Breastfeeding. Naturally.
- Breastfeeding: Supporting mum and baby
- Campylobacter
- Children's Needs
- Children's Rights
- Dental Health and Fluoride
- Disability and Children: Education
- Disability and Children: First Contacts
- Eating for Healthy Children - Aged 2 to 12
- Food for Health
- Grommets
- Guardianship
- Headlice Facts
- Immunise your Children
- Is my child being bullied?
- Keeping Safe Around Hot Water
- Keeping Warm
- Kids Health
- Learn to Relax
- Measles Fact Sheet
- Meningitis is Serious
- New Child Alert Hotline Launched
- Poisons Around The Home
- Post Natal Distress Support Network Trust
- Preventing Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)
- Safe Travel
- Salmonella
- Teen Tools
- The Difference Between a Cold and a Flu?
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Conflict [27 articles]
- Anger, Conflict and Bullying
- Applying for a Protection Order
- Are you OK? - The Campaign for Action on Family Violence
- Assertiveness in Four Steps
- Children's Rights
- Discrimination & Mental Illness: Housing
- Discrimination & Mental Illness: Parenting
- Discrimination and Mental Illness: Employment
- Free Domestic Violence Support Programmes
- Good Communications
- Guardianship
- Have you been the victim of a crime?
- Hope, Healing and Wisdom
- How to Get What You Want Through Negotiation
- Insurance & Savings Ombudsman - Consumer Information Sheets
- Internet Safety
- Is my child being bullied?
- Practical Help for Managing Workplace Stress
- Responding to a Protection Order
- Teenagers Guide To Family Separation
- The Courage to Heal
- The Feeling Good Handbook
- The Youth Court in New Zealand - Te Kooti Taiohi o Aotearoa
- Useful Tips On Single Parenting
- What I need to know about the Victims Charter
- What to do if you are Raped?
- Your Rights with Health and Social Services
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Counselling [11 articles]
- About Grief - and some helpful info and ideas to help you on the journey
- About Therapies
- Art Therapy in New Zealand
- Getting The Lowdown on How to Get Help
- Guardianship
- Kai Xin Xing Dong
- Maori Traditional Health & Healing Information and Service Providers
- New Guide to Talking Therapies in New Zealand
- Tips for Choosing a Counsellor
- Tips for Self Care
- Your Rights with Health and Social Services
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Culture [25 articles]
- At Home Care Directory
- Cultural Wellbeing
- Drinking and You
- Google Flu Trends
- Government Agencies
- Have you been the victim of a crime?
- Inspiring Communities
- Internet Safety
- Kai Xin Xing Dong
- Ko te Reo
- Making friends
- Maori Traditional Health & Healing Information and Service Providers
- Matariki Celebration
- Multi-Lingual Mental Health Fact Sheets
- Ngata Word Translation
- Out!
- Pacific Health Review
- Practical Help for Managing Workplace Stress
- Refugee and Migrant Mental Health Needs
- Safe Travel
- Stop Abuse for Everyone
- Survival Kit
- Teen Tools
- What's Different About Driving in New Zealand
- Working in a Healthy Environment
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Disability [18 articles]
- Accomobility
- Asthma
- At Home Care Directory
- Disability and Children: Education
- Disability and Children: First Contacts
- Discrimination & Mental Illness: Housing
- Discrimination & Mental Illness: Parenting
- Discrimination and Mental Illness: Employment
- Government Agencies
- How to be the Best Support Person
- Maori Traditional Health & Healing Information and Service Providers
- NZ Health and Disability Support Groups
- Surgery
- Tips for Self Care
- Weka.... What everybody keeps asking (about disability information)!
- What I need to know about the Victims Charter
- What is Cerebral Palsy?
- Your Rights with Health and Social Services
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Family [63 articles]
- Accomobility
- Adolescent Oral Health
- Age Concern Health Promotion
- Applying for a Protection Order
- Are you OK? - The Campaign for Action on Family Violence
- Assertiveness in Four Steps
- At Home Care Directory
- BabyWebNZ
- Breastfeeding. Naturally.
- Breastfeeding: Supporting mum and baby
- Campylobacter
- Carer NZ
- Cheap Present Ideas for Christmas
- Children's Needs
- Children's Rights
- Disability and Children: Education
- Disability and Children: First Contacts
- ElderNet
- Free Domestic Violence Support Programmes
- Google Flu Trends
- Government Agencies
- Grommets
- Guardianship
- Have you been made Redundant?
- Have you been the victim of a crime?
- How to be the Best Support Person
- Immunise your Children
- Inspiring Communities
- Is my child being bullied?
- Kai Xin Xing Dong
- Keeping Safe Around Hot Water
- Keeping Warm
- Kids Health
- Making friends
- Maori Traditional Health & Healing Information and Service Providers
- Midwives and their roles
- Miscarriage Information
- Mothers Matter - The Postnatal Depression Family/Whanau New Zealand Trust
- Mothersonline
- Obesity Information
- Planning A Family Budget
- Poisons Around The Home
- Post Natal Distress Support Network Trust
- Preventing Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)
- Problem Gambling
- Prostate Cancer
- Responding to a Protection Order
- Safe Travel
- Salmonella
- Strength Based Resources
- Survival Kit
- Talking with your Teenager / Rangatahi about Safer Sex
- Teen Tools
- Teenage Pregnancy
- Teenagers Guide To Family Separation
- The Feeling Good Handbook
- The Great Little Cookbook - Hints and Healthy Eating on a Tight Budget
- The Heart Foundation
- The Youth Court in New Zealand - Te Kooti Taiohi o Aotearoa
- Tips for Self Care
- Useful Tips On Single Parenting
- Want to quit smoking? Check out The Quit Group!
- Which Contraception To Use?
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Financial [22 articles]
- 5 Ways to Remain Upbeat in a Down Economy
- At Home Care Directory
- Cheap Present Ideas for Christmas
- Coping with Financial Stress - Looking after yourself and your family/whanau
- Free Domestic Violence Support Programmes
- Free Online Nonprofit Organisation and Management Programme
- Funding for Organisations and Community Groups
- Government Agencies
- Have you been made Redundant?
- How to Live off The Smell Of an Oily Rag
- Insurance & Savings Ombudsman - Consumer Information Sheets
- Keeping Warm
- Looking for a Job?
- Planning A Family Budget
- Practical Ideas To Help Community Groups During The Recession
- Problem Gambling
- Responding to a Protection Order
- Simple Savings
- The Great Little Cookbook - Hints and Healthy Eating on a Tight Budget
- Useful Information About Fines
- What I need to know about the Victims Charter
- Work and Income (MSD) Brochures
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Health [81 articles]
- Accomobility
- Acupuncture
- Adolescent Oral Health
- Age Concern Health Promotion
- Allergies
- Applying for a Protection Order
- Asthma
- At Home Care Directory
- Best Treatments
- Body Piercing and Tattooing - Protecting your Health
- BreastScreen Aotearoa
- Campylobacter
- Cannabis and Your Health
- Cervical Cancer Vaccine
- Chlamydia - Information Guide
- Cholesterol
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Confidence in your Health Practitioner leaflet
- Curing and Preventing Chlamydia
- Dental Health and Fluoride
- Diabetes New Zealand
- Do I need a sexual health STI check?
- Drinking and You
- ElderNet
- Endometriosis
- Family Doctor
- Getting Ready for a Flu Pandemic
- Google Flu Trends
- Government Agencies
- Grommets
- Guide to Wellness
- Haemochromatosis/Iron Overload
- Hair Loss Guru
- Headlice Facts
- Health Navigator - Direction for a Healthier Life
- Healthy Brains
- Hepatitis A, B & C
- Hip Hooray - For Young People Requiring Hip Surgery
- How to be the Best Support Person
- Influenza and Bird Flu
- Inspiring Communities
- Kai Xin Xing Dong
- Keeping Safe Around Hot Water
- Keeping Warm
- Kids Health
- Learn to Relax
- Maori Traditional Health & Healing Information and Service Providers
- Medsafe - Consumer Medicine Information
- Meningitis is Serious
- Menopause
- Midwives and their roles
- Ministry of Health - Health Education Resources
- Natural Health Review
- Noise Around The Home
- Obesity Information
- Pacific Health Review
- Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand
- Poisons Around The Home
- Post Natal Distress Support Network Trust
- Practical Help for Managing Workplace Stress
- Preventing Osteoporosis
- Preventing Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)
- Prostate Cancer
- Refugee and Migrant Mental Health Needs
- Safe Travel
- Salmonella
- Stress
- Surgery
- Survival Kit
- Swine Influenza/H1N1 - Frequently Asked Questions
- Talking with your Teenager / Rangatahi about Safer Sex
- The Difference Between a Cold and a Flu?
- The Great Little Cookbook - Hints and Healthy Eating on a Tight Budget
- The Heart Foundation
- Tips for Self Care
- Want to quit smoking? Check out The Quit Group!
- What is Cerebral Palsy?
- Which Contraception To Use?
- Wonder Walkers - Mobilising New Zealand Women
- Working in a Healthy Environment
- Your Rights with Health and Social Services
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Mental Health [67 articles]
- 5 Ways to Remain Upbeat in a Down Economy
- A Gift of Stories: Discovering how to Deal with Mental Illness
- A to Z of Mental Health Resources
- About Grief - and some helpful info and ideas to help you on the journey
- Advance Directives in Mental Health Care and Treatment
- Applying for a Protection Order
- Assertiveness in Four Steps
- At Home Care Directory
- Best Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
- Breaking the Patterns of Depression
- Cannabis and Your Health
- Confidence in your Health Practitioner leaflet
- Coping after a Tsunami - Information Sheet
- Coping with Financial Stress - Looking after yourself and your family/whanau
- Depression
- Depression Fallout: The Impact of Depression on Couples and What You Can Do to Preserve the Bond
- Depression: There is a way through it
- Discrimination & Mental Illness: Housing
- Discrimination & Mental Illness: Parenting
- Discrimination and Mental Illness: Employment
- Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - and it's all small stuff (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series)
- Feeling Good
- Free Domestic Violence Support Programmes
- Getting The Lowdown on How to Get Help
- Guide to Wellness
- Habits of Mind
- Hope, Healing and Wisdom
- How to Raise Self Esteem
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- How to be the Best Support Person
- How to look after your Mental Health
- Is my child being bullied?
- Kai Xin Xing Dong
- Kia Mauri Tau!
- Learn to Relax
- Living with a Black Dog: His Name is Depression
- Managing Post-Traumatic Stress
- Men and Depression
- Mental Health Emergency
- Mental Health First Aid Guidelines
- MoodGYM - Delivering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for preventing depression
- Mothers Matter - The Postnatal Depression Family/Whanau New Zealand Trust
- Multi-Lingual Mental Health Fact Sheets
- New Guide to Talking Therapies in New Zealand
- No One Gives You Chocolates
- Out of the Blue
- Post Natal Distress Support Network Trust
- Refugee and Migrant Mental Health Needs
- Responding to a Protection Order
- Sharing the Load : What to do when someone you love is depressed
- Strength Based Resources
- Stress
- Suicide
- Survivors of Suicide Handbook
- Taming The Black Dog: A Guide to Overcoming Depression
- Te Pou - The National Centre of Mental Health Research and Workforce Development
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression, Second Edition
- The Feeling Good Handbook
- Tips for Self Care
- Twelve Valuable Steps to Raise your Self Esteem
- Useful Tips On Single Parenting
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan
- What I need to know about the Victims Charter
- What to Do if You're Burned Out & Blue
- Your Rights with Health and Social Services
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Ministry of Health - Health Education Resources [22 articles]
- Anger, Conflict and Bullying
- Body Piercing and Tattooing - Protecting your Health
- BreastScreen Aotearoa
- Cannabis and Your Health
- Chlamydia - Information Guide
- Dental Health and Fluoride
- Feeling Good
- Food for Health
- Getting Ready for a Flu Pandemic
- Good Communications
- Headlice Facts
- Hepatitis A, B & C
- Immunise your Children
- Keeping Healthy Outdoors
- Meningitis is Serious
- Menopause
- Ministry of Health - Health Education Resources
- Noise Around The Home
- Poisons Around The Home
- Preventing Osteoporosis
- Preventing Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)
- Talking with your Teenager / Rangatahi about Safer Sex
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Older People [19 articles]
- Accomobility
- Age Concern Health Promotion
- At Home Care Directory
- BreastScreen Aotearoa
- Carer NZ
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- ElderNet
- Google Flu Trends
- Hair Loss Guru
- Have you been the victim of a crime?
- Information about Residential Care for Older People
- Kai Xin Xing Dong
- Making friends
- Menopause
- Preventing Osteoporosis
- Prostate Cancer
- Retirement
- Safe Travel
- What is Dementia?
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Service Provider Tools [17 articles]
- Clearing House
- Connect Your Community - Webguide
- Free Online Nonprofit Organisation and Management Programme
- Funding for Organisations and Community Groups
- Google Flu Trends
- Government Agencies
- Host Responsibility for Christmas Parties
- Inspiring Communities
- Kai Xin Xing Dong
- Making Supervision Work for You
- Managing the Risk of Workplace Violence to Healthcare and Community Service Providers
- New Guide to Talking Therapies in New Zealand
- New Zealand Guidelines Group
- Online Donations Toolkit from the Charities Commission
- Practical Help for Managing Workplace Stress
- Practical Ideas To Help Community Groups During The Recession
- Working in a Healthy Environment
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Youth [37 articles]
- Adolescent Oral Health
- Anger, Conflict and Bullying
- Body Piercing and Tattooing - Protecting your Health
- Cervical Cancer Vaccine
- Chlamydia - Information Guide
- Drinking and You
- Drugs and Alcohol
- Drugs, Alcohol & The Law
- Feeling Good
- Food for Health
- Get the Msg! New Zealand Drug Foundation
- Getting The Lowdown on How to Get Help
- Good Communications
- Headlice Facts
- Internet Safety
- Is my child being bullied?
- Making friends
- New Child Alert Hotline Launched
- Suicide
- Survivors of Suicide Handbook
- Sussed
- Talking with your Teenager / Rangatahi about Safer Sex
- Teen Tools
- Teenage Pregnancy
- Teenagers Guide To Family Separation
- Tenancy - Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
- The Youth Court in New Zealand - Te Kooti Taiohi o Aotearoa
- Trippin
- Urge
- What's Up
- Which Contraception To Use?
- Young Workers Resource Centre
- Youth & The Law - How old do I have to be?
- Youth & The Law - Your Rights at Work
- Youth & the Law - Your Rights at School
- Youth and the Law - Your Rights as a Consumer
- Youth and the Law - Your Rights with Police
