Dementia and poverty go together. So researchers say in the latest Briefing from the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington. They say the risk of developing dementia is 60 per cent higher for people living in New Zealand’s most deprived areas compared to those in the least deprived. Right now, our Read more
A special mass vaccination event didn’t work for Pasifika, the Minister for Pacific Peoples says. Aupito William Sio is calling on district health boards to work closely with Pacific community groups to encourage more in the community to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Sio’s comments come following the mass vaccination event in south Auckland in July, Read more