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• Terms of use

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  My Health Account is the digital health identity service operated by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. With a My Health Account, you can gain secure access to your health information online. You can also link your National Health Index (NHI) number to your account. If you choose to create and use a My Health Account, these Terms of use will apply to you. These terms form an agreement between you and Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. Expand all What you are agreeing to What you are agreeing to By accepting these terms, you understand and agree:   some parents aged 16 years and over  ...

• Yellow fever

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  ... last reviewed and updated in May 2012. Epidemiology Expand all New Zealand Epidemiology New Zealand Epidemiology Yellow fever is a mosquito-transmitted viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) with an available vaccine. A valid International Certificate of Vaccination against yellow fever may be required for travel through endemic or enzootic countries. Vaccination may also be recommended for personal protection. There has never been an imported case of yellow fever in New Zealand, and the vector mosquitoes Aedes aegypti (also named Stegomyia aegypti ) and Haemagogus are not established here. It is p ...

• Malaria

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  Chapter last reviewed and updated in May 2012. Epidemiology Expand all New Zealand Epidemiology New Zealand Epidemiology All cases of malaria in New Zealand to date have occurred in travellers visiting the country or returning from overseas. There are no Anopheles species of mosquitoes in New Zealand, so there is no risk of local mosquito-borne transmission. More detailed epidemiological information is available on the  Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) surveillance website (external link) . Case definition Expand all Clinical description Clinical description Malaria c ...

• Residential Care Loan Scheme

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  The formal Residential Care Loan Scheme policy was notified in the New Zealand Gazette on 2 June 2005, to take effect on 1 July 2005. The policy statement outlines the purpose of the loan scheme, the key eligibility criteria, terms and conditions of the loan, and policy relating to repayment, deferment and write-off of a loan.   For information about applying for a residential-care loan, contact Work and Income’s Residential Subsidy Unit, free phone 0800 999 727.   If you have questions about the residential-care loan scheme policy   contact us . Pātiki and Waharua Kōpito pa ...

• Outcome 8

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  ... dedicated breastfeeding and lactation support in NICUs and special care nurseries, paediatric wards and mental health units. Research demonstrates that providing dedicated NICU breastfeeding and lactation support can be cost effective and is associated with improved breastfeeding outcome measures for high-risk preterm infants (Gharib et al 2018; Renfrew et al 2009). Review evidence to ensure breastfeeding recommendations for parents with HIV are in line with current best practice evidence. WHO guidelines (World Health Organization and UNICEF 2016) recommend that infants should be exclusively ...

• National Health Index FHIR API

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  Brief description The National Health Index (NHI) is an index that stores identity information — for example, a person’s name, address, gender and date of birth — and associates this information with a unique identifier, known as an ‘NHI number’. Every person who uses health and disability services in New Zealand is assigned an NHI number. The purpose of the NHI is to ensure they are accurately identified and linked with the correct health records. Clinical information is not recorded. Overview This is a FHIR API made up of two resources:   NHIPatient, derived from the HL7 FHIR ...

• Pacific Health Scholarships guidelines

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  Eligibility criteria Applications for the 2025 Pacific Health Scholarships are now open .    All of the following circumstances need to apply to you in order to be eligible:   Be of Pacific Islands descent   Be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident at the time of the application   be enrolled in a health or disability-related course/qualification   be enrolled at an approved NZQA accredited tertiary provider in New Zealand   provide evidence (passport, birth certificate, reference letter) of Pacific descent from any of the following islands: Samoa, Amer ...

• First-trimester ultrasound

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  ... offered or requested simply to confirm an ongoing early pregnancy in the absence of any clinical concerns, symptoms or specific indications. The first ultrasound of the pregnancy should ideally be offered when the gestational age is thought to be between   12 and 13+6 weeks   gestation for optimal assessment of fetal anatomy and nuchal translucency (NT). The purpose of the scan is to confirm viability, accurately establish gestational age, determine the number of viable fetuses, evaluate gross fetal anatomy and, if requested, assess the NT as part of the risk assessment for aneuplo ...

• Pay Equity and Qualification Equivalencies

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  Pay Equity and Qualification Equivalency As part of both the 2017 aged care and support pay equity settlement, and the 2018 mental health and addiction support worker settlement, workers can qualify for pay equity via either job tenure, or level of qualification. For qualification-based pay equity, support workers either need to have an actual New Zealand Certificate in Health & Wellbeing (Level 2–4), or a qualification which has been assessed as equivalent to it. Changes to Careerforce’s role in Pay Equity Between June 2017 and December 2019, Careerforce was tasked with the respo ...

• Residential Care Questions and Answers

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  ... in a retirement village. Is there a list of residential care providers? Is there a list of residential care providers? A full list of certified hospital and rest home services providers is available in our   database of rest home providers (xlsx, 245KB) [CSV, 245 KB] Who is responsible for funding residential care services for older people? Who is responsible for funding residential care services for older people? We are responsible for funding residential care services for older people under the Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018. We have a contract with res ...