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Key publications and policies

Key publications are strategies, plans (including Waikato DHB annual plan), reports (including Waikato DHB annual report, annual quality account, serious adverse events and maternity annual report), our DHB position statements of a range of public health issues, Waikato DHB policies of public interest, health profiles of our communities, Māori and Pasifika populations, plus links to our news website and quarterly magazine.

Waikato District Health Board Strategy 2016

A draft strategy was developed and taken out for engagement with people in the Waikato. Engagement ran for six weeks, starting 1 March 2016 and ending 15 April 2016. The finalised strategy was published in July 2016. Feedback from the engagement has been included in the final strategy or in the priority programme work stream. No feedback was discarded.

Waikato District Health Board Mental Health & Addictions Strategy 2016 – 2021

The Mental Health & Addictions Strategy for 2016 -2021 builds on the previous Mental Health & Addictions Strategy 2009 – 2014. This strategy has been developed in close consultation with DHB staff, our non-government partners, primary care partners, consumers and carers.

Waikato DHB developed a set of position statements on identified public health issues.
The purpose of these position statements is to provide high level documents representing Waikato DHB’s position as an organisation on these issues, and to clarify the organisation’s position for Waikato DHB staff.

Some of the key Waikato DHB policies of public interest are provided below.

Health profiles provide data and information related to identified health priority areas and priority population groups in the Waikato DHB region.

The Early Childhood Health Profile

Designed to inform and further enhance the Population Health approach to improve early childhood health gains for children under 5 years of age.

The objectives of this profile are

  • to provide access to child health data for under 5-year olds for the Waikato DHB region, and
  • identify the social determinants of health that both influence and impact on the health and wellbeing of children under 5 years of age.

ECE Health Profile 2017 [PDF, 1.4 MB]

Waikato DHB Māori and Pacific Health Profiles

These profiles provide a snapshot of key statistics around the health and wellbeing of the Māori and Pacific populations across the Waikato DHB region.  The health indicators used in this document are reported in an info-graphic style and are structured specifically to Māori and Pacific models of health.

The main sources of statistical information contained in these documents are from Statistics NZ Census, Waikato DHB Health Register, Ministry of Health and for the Pacific profile we have been able to obtain some primary care data. 

Territorial Authority (TA) Health Profiles

In 2015 a health profile was developed for each Territorial Authority (TA) within our Waikato DHB region which shows the latest statistics on demographics, key health issues, socioeconomic determinants, and projections utilising infographics. Tables show more detailed statistics such as comparisons between TA and DHB, Maori and Non-Maori, and development over time. 

Waikato DHB Health Profile 2015 [PDF, 332 KB]