Feasibility A specific vocational focus in Asian mental health services is not yet visible in New Zealand literature or official documents; however, it is legitimated from strategic plans, and therefore is feasible, particularly in the Auckland region.
The relationship between poverty and poor health has been well documented in New Zealand literature (Pomare 1995, Ministry of Health 1999a, National Advisory Committee on Health and Disability 1998).
Other nurses leading concurrent sessions include Stephen Neville (Massey University, Albany) discussing sexual concerns for older men; Katrina Lenzie-Smith (Auckland University) discussing nurses' stress levels and coping styles; Tony Lawson (Auckland University) on the role of the clinical nurse specialist in discharge follow-up; Daphne Manderson (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology) on aggression and reporting practices in residential care; Lorraine Ritchie (Wellington research nurse) on coping and not coping with growing old: examples from New Zealand literature for use in nurse education; and Kathy Peri (Auckland gerontology nurse specialist) on her promoting independent living study.
Two approaches are employed: firstly, the paper reviews current New Zealand literature to identify the research knowledge currently available to inform development of the strategy, and, secondly, the paper draws on the findings of a scoping study that aimed to identify research needs from the perspective of those working as educators, service providers and researchers in the field of adolescent sexual health.
Besides providing a New Zealand perspective on an international literature review, New Zealand-based reviewers of priority areas can review New Zealand literature, consult local experts, and locate and describe existing New Zealand data sets and current data-gathering efforts.
Judith Davey surveys the New Zealand literature on risks to young people, providing both a gender breakdown of these threats to well-being, as well as an analysis of the linkages between risks.
