Building a systems-thinking community workforce to scale action on determinants of health in New Zealand.

This article describes findings from the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ (HFNZ), an equity-driven, place-based community health initiative. Implemented in nine diverse communities across New Zealand, HFNZ aims to strengthen the systems that can improve health and well-being. Findings highlight local needs and priorities including the social mechanisms important for reorienting health and policy systems towards place-based communities.

The ownership elephant is becoming a mammoth: a policy focus on ownership is needed to transform Aotearoa New Zealand's health system.

Explicit government policy about ownership of health services is an important yet missing element in Aotearoa New Zealand's health system. Policy has not systematically addressed ownership as a health system policy tool since the late 1930s. It is timely to revisit ownership amid health system reform and increasing reliance on private provision (for-profit companies), notably for primary and community care, and also as an integral part of digitalisation.

Corrigendum: Reviewing School Uniform Through a Public Health Lens: Evidence About the Impacts of School Uniform on Education and Health.

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Reviewing School Uniform through a Public Health Lens: Evidence about the Impacts of School Uniform on Education and Health.

This study uses a public health lens to review evidence about the impacts of wearing a school uniform on students' health and educational outcomes. It also reviews the underlying rationales for school uniform use, exploring historical reasons for uniform use, as well as how questions of equity, human rights, and the status of children as a vulnerable group are played out in debates over school uniforms. The literature identified indicates that uniforms have no direct impact on academic performance, yet directly impact physical and psychological health.

Good progress for children coupled with recalcitrant inequalities for adults in New Zealand's journey towards Universal Health Coverage over the last decade.

Aims: This article explores how primary health care policy changes in New Zealand over the last decade have impacted on primary care access equity and avoidable hospital admissions.

Methods: The national Ambulatory Sensitive Hospitalisations (ASH) data trends by age, ethnicity and area level deprivation were analysed in relation to the Primary Health Care policy initiatives for the period 2002 to 2014.

Results And Conclusions: Changes in primary care access over the decade have led to improvement in ASH indicators for parts of the population, but not for others.

New Zealand evidence for the impact of primary healthcare investment in Capital and Coast District Health Board.

Aims: This paper provides New Zealand evidence on the effectiveness of primary care investment, measured through the Capital and Coast District Health Board's (DHB) Primary Health Care Framework. The Framework was developed in 2002/2003 to guide funding decisions at a DHB level, and to provide a transparent basis for evaluation of the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy in this district.

Methods: The Framework used a mixed method approach; analysis was based on quantitative and qualitative data.