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Wellbeing and service contact outcomes

The Ministry of Health has published a number of reports to provide better data on what life is like for disabled people.

The analysis looked at wellbeing and service contact outcomes for disabled people receiving Ministry of Health funded disability support services (DSS) in MidCentral and across the whole of New Zealand. 

The data helps us to understand the wider social context for disabled people and whanau, such as health, education, income and family relationship outcomes.

These reports do not tell us if Mana Whaikaha are making a difference. This is because:

  • the data is not specifically targeted at the outcomes that Mana Whaikaha can directly change

  • the data was collected before Mana Whaikaha started on 1 October 2018

The Ministry of Health asked EY to complete these reports from their analysis of administrative and survey data from Statistics New Zealand’s integrated data infrastructure (IDI).

The reports published here are:

The full report: Wellbeing and service contact outcomes for disabled people: MidCentral region and New Zealand

Download the full report (Word) (DOCX, 361 KB)

Download the full report (PDF) (PDF, 982 KB)

An executive summary of the full report will be available in Easy Read and NZSL formats shortly.

Summary infographics

There are also four infographics available providing a summary of some important information from the report, each one compares data for different groups of people.

MidCentral summaries

Wellbeing outcomes for disabled people: MidCentral DSS clients vs. non-DSS clients

Download in PowerPoint (PPTX, 212 KB)

Download in PDF (PDF, 47 KB)

Wellbeing outcomes for disabled people: MidCentral DSS clients vs. non-DSS clients in the rest of New Zealand

Download in Powerpoint (PPTX, 202 KB)

Download in PDF (PDF, 44 KB)

National summaries

Wellbeing outcomes for disabled people: DSS clients in all New Zealand vs. non-DSS clients

Download in PowerPoint (PPTX, 196 KB)

Download in PDF (PDF, 43 KB)

Health outcomes for disabled people: DSS clients in all New Zealand vs. non-DSS clients

Download in PowerPoint (PPTX, 266 KB)

Download in PDF (PDF, 101 KB)