New Zealand Health Care

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The Ministry of Health (2008) found that mental illness which includes addiction affects one in five New Zealanders. A key population health challenge Addiction Support Workers are facing is the culturally diverse population in New Zealand. Estimates show that one in five New Zealanders were not born in New Zealand compared to one in eight in the United States. Furthermore, Statistics NZ showed a 5,000 net gain of immigrants to NZ for the month of March between 2005-2015 (as seen in the figure below, figure retrieved from http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/Migration/IntTravelAndMigration_HOTPMar15.aspx.)

This wide range of diversity is causing a huge impact on addiction resources that are unable to cater for English
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An integrated health system allows for easy communication and sharing of files between systems. Cumming (2011) found that integration is vital to ensuring good access to primary care services in New Zealand and also promotes different agencies to work together for the better of the patient. World Health Organisation (2008) concluded that integration of health care services is cost effective as resources would be shared amongst health professionals which allows the system to perform better. It is also patient orientated, this is based on the idea of doctors and health care professionals working together for the patient making it easier to flag any underlying problems. This idea can work both ways; a doctor to pick up an addiction issue and vice versa. This is seen in Funk, & Ivbijaro (2008) (in this report mental disorders refers to a wide range of illnesses including addiction, depression, eating disorders, etc.) report that people suffering from mental disorders are more likely to develop physical health conditions in the future, for instance; diabetes, heart disease, etc. In a recent report, The National Centre of Mental Health Research, Information and Workforce Development (2014) showed that addiction related deaths in this case alcohol contributed to ¼ of all deaths due to cancer in New Zealand. Funk, & Ivbijaro (2008) also determined higher mortality rates among patients with mental disorders. Many patients displayed mental disorders (e.g. excessive drinking) as a copying mechanism for physical disorders. The current divided health care system makes it difficult to link mental disorders/ addictions and physical disorders together to find the root cause. An example of this is alcohol abuse as it is highly associated with physical health risks, developing a more integrated health system

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