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Stuff: NZ Fourth Best Place In World For Mums
New Zealand is the fourth-best country in which to be a mother, an international survey has found. The appearance in a top 10 dominated by Europe marks the first year this country has been included in Save the Children's annual State of the World's Mothers report, released yesterday. The report from the US-based organisation ranks the wellbeing of mothers and children in 140 countries, taking into account their health, education and economic status.
New Zealand's social wellbeing continuing to improve
The Social Report 2006, released today by the Ministry of Social Development, shows that New Zealanders' social wellbeing is continuing to improve. This year's report for the first time also looks at how New Zealanders' wellbeing has changed over the last 20 years. Of the 18 indicators tracked from the mid-1980s, the majority have improved. New Zealanders are better educated, they’re healthier and more of them are in paid work
NZ Listener: Every Breath You Take
New Zealand scientists have invented a machine that will revolutionise everything from detecting terrorists' explosives to spoilt imported produce. It will even be able to diagnose, from a single exhalation, human diseases that range from diabetes to schizophrenia.
NZ Herald: Auckland Scientist Scoops International Award
An Auckland University neurobiologist who has won a prestigious international award for her work, almost didn't enter the competition because she didn't think she'd have any chance of winning.
Emigrate: New Zealand's First Class Health Care
New Zealand’s health system has been placed second among six developed countries by The Commonwealth Fund Report.
Health and Quality of Life in New Zealand
The following are figures which outline the perceptions that New Zealanders have about the quality of life in New Zealand and of their health. This data has been sourced from the Quality of Life in New Zealand's Twelve Largest Cities Residents Survey 2004.
New Zealand's Social Wellbeing Improving
The Ministry of Social Development's Social Report 2005 shows that, on key indicators of social wellbeing, New Zealanders' lives are better, on average, than they were a decade ago. Of the 22 indicators for which there is time series data in the report, 16 show improvement since the mid-1990s. "New Zealanders continue to be better off financially, healthier and better educated", Marcel Lauziere, Deputy Chief Executive of Social Development Policy and Knowledge said.
NZ Herald: It's official: We're happier than the Australians
New Zealand has been ranked the 18th happiest country on earth in an international survey. It ranked higher than the United States (23), Australia (26) and the United Kingdom (41) in the University of Leicester happiness study.
Unlimited: Good Medicine
New Zealand was the first country in the world to allocate the seemingly obvious identifier, the National Health Index (NHI) to patients, back in 1993. And the NHI has been the platform for a whole raft of software innovations from communications systems that send lab results electronically to GPs, to hospital systems allowing doctors to call up all available information on a particular patient (test results, x-rays, clinical summaries etc) on one screen. These innovations are not only key to New Zealanders getting better and more efficient health care in the future, they are also the cornerstone of one of New Zealand's more innovative and fast growing export sectors: health IT.
Stuff: NZ Ranks Well In 'Blue Skies' Research
New Zealand's Bay of Islands has the world's second-bluest sky, according to a Scots researcher who took measurements from 20 different sites on the Earth's surface during a 12 week round-the-world trip. Anya Hohnbaum found Brazil's Rio de Janeiro had the bluest sky, followed by the Bay of Islands, Ayers Rock in Australia, Fiji and South Africa.
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