The Children’s Social Health Monitor 2012 Update

[Full update: Childrens_Social_Health_Monitor_2012_Update.pdf]

Introduction to The Children's Social Health Monitor

In New Zealand, there are currently large disparities in child health status, with Māori and Pacific children and those living in more deprived areas experiencing a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality . These disparities were present even in the mid 2000s, when New Zealand experienced some of its lowest unemployment rates in recent decades.

New Zealand’s macroeconomic environment began to change in 2008 however, in the context of a larger global downturn, with the country officially entering a recession at the end of June 2008, after two consecutive quarters of negative growth. While New Zealand technically left the recession at the end of June 2009 (when quarterly growth reached +0.1%), progress since then has been variable, with unemployment rates, and the number of children reliant on benefit recipients remaining higher than in the mid-2000s.

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[Full update: Childrens_Social_Health_Monitor_2012_Update.pdf]

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