Health Education Resources

Information on the code of Health and Disability Consumer's Rights and Advocacy Services.

There is translated Health and Disability consumers rights information available in Somali, Arabic Farsi, Khmer and Burmese and Amharic on the following website.

http://www.hdc.org.nz/advocacy/translatedbrochures.html

Below are a list of resources which can be downloaded. 

Using the New Zealand Health System

arrow NZ Health Services
English Arabic Burmese
arrow Primary Health Care: Primary Health Organisations
English (pdf 314KB) Amharic (pdf 160KB) Arabic (pdf 179KB)
Dari (pdf 485KB) Farsi (pdf 707KB) Pashto (pdf 144KB)
Somali (pdf 134KB)
arrow When your doctor refers you to a specialist at the hospital
English (pdf 107KB) Amharic (pdf 57KB) Arabic (pdf 58KB)
Farsi (pdf 60KB) Pushto (pdf 67KB)  Somali (pdf 61KB)
arrow When to take your child to the doctor
English (pdf 119KB) Amharic (64KB) Arabic (pdf 75KB)
Farsi (pdf 76KB) Pushto (pdf 67KB)  Somali (pdf 100KB)
arrow Getting your medicines from the chemist (Pharmacy)
English (pdf 117KB) Amharic (pdf 56KB) Arabic (pdf 62KB)
Farsi (pdf 87KB) Pushto (pdf 65KB)  Somali (pdf 66KB)
arrow Using St Johns Services to get to hospital appointments
Amharic (pdf 82KB) Arabic (pdf 63KB) Farsi (pdf 93KB)
Pushto (pdf 75KB)  Somali (pdf 101KB)
arrow Dental Services in New Zealand
English (pdf 400KB) Amharic (pdf 402KB) Arabic (pdf 248KB)
Dari (pdf 304KB) Farsi (pdf 258KB) Pushto (pdf 211KB) 
arrow Well Child 
English (pdf 5.2MB) Amharic (pdf 1.3MB) Arabic (pdf 551KB)
Pushto (pdf 2.5KB) Somali (pdf 2.5MB)
 
arrow Feeding your baby: Birth to 1 Year 
Arabic (pdf 551KB)    
arrow Maternity services in New Zealand - by the Maternity Service Consumer Council.
English (pdf 92KB) Somali (pdf 94KB)
arrow Latent Tuberculosis Infection
English Amharic Arabic
Chinese Farsi Somali
arrow Services for Asylum Seekers
English    
Some of the publications have been converted to Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (pdf) and details on how to view these files are documented elsewhere.

 
 

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