Hauora Health
Resources you have access to with your library card. Also included in this list are a number of freely available websites that can be accessed without a library card login. You can filter these by toggling the buttons below.
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Consumer Health
Health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine, including a number of full text health magazines
Health and Disability Commissioner
The Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights confers a number of rights on all consumers of health and disability services in New Zealand and places corresponding obligations on doctors and other providers of those services. Also provides a summary of your rights is available in several languages
Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
Consumer health resource providing authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices
Medsafe Consumer Information
Medsafe is the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, and is a business unit of the Ministry of Health. This website includes consumer medicine information containing advice such as what the medicine is used for, how it should be taken, and what side effects can occur, but please ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions or concerns about taking any medicines
Ministry of Health
The New Zealand Ministry of Health website has a Your Health section with fact sheets about a number of conditions and treatments in New Zealand, as well as a useful Statistics by Topic section
NZORD, the New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders
This website includes a comprehensive listing of support groups for patients and families affected by rare and common disorders, as well as providing guides to medical and scientific research available on the internet