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Birth and pregnancy Pamphlets

Ultrasound scans during pregnancy
This recently updated pamphlet includes information on what ultrasound is used for, the benefits and ethical and medical concerns, experts' views and useful contact groups

Vitamin K does my new baby need it?
This pamphlet gives information to help you make a decision about whether to give Vitamin K to your new baby. It explains the benefits
and the possible risks.

Midlife Pamphlets

Heart Health for women at mid-life and after - a guide to understanding and preventing cardiovascular disease
A guide to understanding and preventing cardiovascular disease. This pamphlet includes basic heart facts, information on cardiovascular deaths in NZ women, menopause and heart disease, prevention, hormone replacement therapy and risk factors as well as good news about hearts

Move it or Lose it - A guide to exercise for women at mid-life and after
A guide to exercise for women at mid-life and after. This pamphlet contains sensible exercise advice for Womens Health Action Trust

Help for hot flushes
This pamphlet includes information on nutrition, exercise, herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, supplements, hormone replacement therapy, triggers for hot flushes and self-help hints from women who have attended our workshops

Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT

BreastScreen Aotearoa More about breast screening and the National Breast Screening Programm

Mammography - all about breast cancer screening

You and Your Health Records - Your Rights Under the Privacy Act

Recommended Medical Investigations & Treatments for Fibroids Information for women

Recommended Medical Investigations and Treatments for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding - Information for Women

Ultrasound scans during pregnancy - Produced by Womens Health Action (WHA)

This pamphlet provides information to help parent's s make decisions about ultrasound scans in pregnancy. It is regularly updated based on medical and research findings. The most recent update was in 2007

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Contents

• What is ultrasound?
• When is routine ultrasound screening carried out?
• What is ultrasound used for?
  • Routine Screening
  • Social Uses of Ultrasound
  • Medical Uses of Ultrasound
  • Fetal Nuchal Translucency (NT) Screening
• Benefits of ultrasound
• Concerns about ultrasound
• Ultrasound scans during pregnancy
• Ethical concerns about ultrasound
• Women's reactions to ultrasound
• What the experts say about routine ultrasound
• Useful contact groups

References used for Ultrasound pamphlet:

1. Murray Enkin et al. A guide to effective care in pregnancy and childbirth. 3rd edition. Oxford University Press 2000. Page 55.
2. RM Snijders et al. UK multicentre project on assessment of risk of trisomy 21 by maternal age & fetal nuchal translucency thickness at 10-14 weeks of gestation. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1998. 352(9125):343-6.
3. S Cicero et al. Likelihood ratio for trisomy 21 in fetuses with absent nasal bone at the 11-14-week scan. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2004. Volume 23 Issue 3, pages 218-223.
4. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Routine ultrasound screening in pregnancy. Protocol, standards and training. London RCOG Press 2000.
5. SP Chauhan et al. Limitations of Clinical and Sonographic Estimates of Birthweight: Experience with 1034 Parturients. Obstetrics and Gynaecology 1998. Vol 91. No 1. 72-77.
6. L Bricker & JP Neilson. Routine ultrasound in late pregnancy (after 24 weeks gestation). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006. Issue 1.
7. L Bricker & JP Neilson. Routine Doppler ultrasound in pregnancy. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006. Issue 1.
8. L Bricker et al. Ultrasound screening in pregnancy: a systematic review of the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and women's views. Health Technology Assessment 2000; Vol. 4: No 16: 1-193.
9. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. Diagnostic Ultrasound Safety. A summary of the technical report Exposure Criteria for Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound: II. Criteria Based on all Known Mechanisms 2002.
10. Safety Group of the British Medical Ultrasound Society. Statement on the safe use, and potential hazards, of diagnostic ultrasound. October 2002.

 

Vitamin K does my new baby need it? - Produced by WHA

This pamphlet gives information to help you make a decision about whether to give Vitamin K to your new baby. It explains the benefits and the possible risks.

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Contents

• Vitamin K - does my new baby need it?
• IT'S YOUR CHOICE
• What is Vitamin K?
• What is Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB)?
• Which babies are at risk of VKDB?
• What about Vitamin K in breast milk?
• What about Vitamin K in infant formula milk?
• So why give extra Vitamin K to babies?
• How is Vitamin K given?
• Is Vitamin K safe?
• Vitamin K by mouth or injection?
• WHat about natural alternatives?
• Signs of VKDB
• What NZ Health Professionals recommend
• Key Points

References for Vitamin K pamphlet:

1. Marcia L. Buck. Vitamin K for the Prevention of Bleeding in Newborns. Pediatric Pharmacotherapy. Vol 7 No 10 October 2001.
2. Sara Wickham. Vitamin K ' An Alternative Perspective. AIMS Journal Vol 13. No 2 Summer 2001
3. LG Israels, ED Israels. Observation on vitamin K deficiency in the fetus and newborn: has nature made a mistake? Semin Thromb Hemost 1995:21:357-63.
4. Lachlan Smith. Intramuscular vitamin K in the newborn and childhood cancer ' a literature review of evidence for best practice. NZMSJ. March 2004; 20-23.
5. Committee on Fetus and Newborn, Policy Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn. Pediatrics Vol 112 No.1 July 2003.
6. National Women's Newborn Services Clinical Guideline ' Vitamin K. www.adhb.govt.nz/newborn/Guidelines?Blood/VitaminK.htm Accessed 2 February 2006.
7. E Hey. Vitamin K ' what, why, and when. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2003; 88:F80
8. Vitamin K in Colostrum and Breast milk Midwifery Today Vol 1 Issue 41. October 1999.
9. Frank R. Greer et al. Improving the Vitamin K Status of Breastfeeding Infants With Maternal Vitamin K Supplements. Pediatrics Vol 99 No 1. January 1997. pp 88-92.
10. Frank R. Greer. Are breastfed infants vitamin K deficient? Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology. 2001;501:391-5.
11. R von Kries et al. Oral mixed micellar vitamin K for prevention of late vitamin K deficiency bleeding. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2003; 88:F109-12.
12. J Golding et al. Factors associated with childhood cancer in a national cohort study. British Journal of Cancer 1990;62:304-308.
13. J Golding et al. Childhood cancer, intramuscular Vitamin K, and pethidine given during labour. British Medical Journal 1992;305: 199-203.
14. R von Kries et al. Vitamin K and childhood cancer: a population based case-control study in Lower Saxony, Germany. British Medical Journal 1996;313: 199-203.
15. DH Olsen et al. Vitamin K regimens and incidence of childhood cancer in Denmark. British Medical Journal 1994; 308: 895-6.
16. R von Kries. Neonatal Vitamin K prophylaxis: the Gordian knot still awaits untying. British Medical Journal 1998;316: 161-2.

Heart Health for women at mid-life and after - a guide to understanding and preventing cardiovascular disease - Produced by WHA

A guide to understanding and preventing cardiovascular disease. This pamphlet includes basic heart facts, information on cardiovascular deaths in NZ women, menopause and heart disease, prevention, hormone replacement therapy and risk factors as well as good news about heart

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Contents:

• Heart disease - not just a male problem
• Heart disease in New Zealand
• Basic heart facts
• Cardiovascular deaths in New Zealand women
• Gender politics of heart disease
• Menopause and heart disease
• Preventing heart disease
• Risk factors for cardiovascular disease
• Hormone replacement therapy and heart disease
• Want to know more about your risk of heart disease
• good news about hearts
• Change what you eat
• get those thighs and buttocks moving
• references
• what about alcohol

Move it or Lose it - A guide to exercise for women at mid-life and after- Produced by WHA

A guide to exercise for women at mid-life and after. This pamphlet contains sensible exercise advice for Women.

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Contents:

• The more we meed it, the less we do it
• Golden rules for mid-life women
• Burn off the kilos
• Live longer, live better
• How much is enough
• What kind of exercise
• Where to go

Help for hot flushes- Produced by WHA

This pamphlet includes information on nutrition, exercise, herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, supplements, hormone replacement therapy, triggers for hot flushes and self-help hints from women who have attended our workshops

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Contents:

• Nutrition
• Exercise
• Herbs
• Homeopathy
• Acupuncture
• Acupressure
• Supplements
• Hormone replacement therapy
• Other drug treatments
• The right clothes - day and night
• Triggers for hot flushes
• Self-help hints from women attending our workshops
• Further reading about menopause
• For help finding a therapist or natural healer

Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT- Produced by WHA

Free in New Zealand - order form

New Information about hormone repacement Therapy or HRT

What is HRT?

Menopause

A snapshot of the Women's Health Initiative study

How long is it safe to use HRT?

How to come off HRT?

Breast cancer and mammography

Vaginal dryness

Recommendations about HRT from the New Zealand Guidelines Group

Other information about HRT

Alternatives for hot flushes

Key Points

To keep healthy at mid-life

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Cervical Screening: A Guide for Women in New Zealand -Produced by The National Screening Unit

This booklet is available free throughout New Zealand/Aotearoa from The National Screening Unit and available online at: http://www.nsu.govt.nz/Files/NCSP/NCSPdetailedbooklet.pd

Introduction
Section One - Having a cervical smear test
What is cervical screening?
How often should you have a cervical smear test?
Benefits of three-yearly cervical screening
When should you have cervical smear tests more often?
Who should have cervical smear tests?
Where do you go for cervical smear tests?
Where can you find a female cervical smear taker?
Having a cervical smear test if you are disabled
How much will a cervical smear test cost?
When should you have a cervical smear test?
How is a cervical smear test done?
How do you know when your next cervical smear test is due?
When and how will you get the results of your cervical smear tests?
How effective is a cervical smear test?
Testing of cervical smear samples
Results of cervical smear tests
What does an abnormal result mean?
Colposcopy
Treatment for abnormal cervical cells
Section Two - Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer
What causes cervical cell changes and cervical cancer?
Cervical cancer in New Zealand
Section Three - The National Cervical Screening Programme
The National Cervical Screening Programme
The National Cervical Screening Programme Register
How can you tell if the National Cervical Screening Programme is working well?
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights
How do you make a complaint about any part of the programme?
Privacy Code
Glossary

Recommended Medical Investigations & Treatments for Fibroids Information for women - Prepared by Women's Health Action for the National Health Committee. July 2001

This pamphlet is currently only available online by clicking on the following link http://www.nzgg.org.nz/download/files/Fibroids_pamphlet.pdf

Includes:

• What are fibroids?
• What causes fibroids?
• Symptoms of fibroids
• Diagnosing fibroids
• Methods of diagnosing fibroids
• Treatment of fibroids
• Medical treatments
• Medical treatments that don't work
• Surgical treatments
• New treatments - surgical and non-surgical
• Complementary treatments
• Glossary
• Further information

This pamphlet has been endorsed by the RANZCOG and the RNZCGP.
This pamphlet, based on the NHC Guidelines has been prepared by Women's Health Action for the National Health Committee. July 2001

Recommended Medical Investigations and Treatments for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding - Information for Women - Prepared by Women's Health Action for the National Health Committee. March 1999

This pamphlet is currently only available online by clicking on the following link:
http://www.nzgg.org.nz/guidelines/0032/HMB_consumer.pdf

Includes:

• Introduction
• Diagnosis & Investigations
• Effective Treatments for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
  • medical treatments
  • surgical treatments
• Flow chart for medical management
• Glossary
• Further Information

This pamphlet has been endorsed by the RANZCOG and the RNZCGP.
This pamphlet, based on the NHC Guidelines has been prepared by Women's Health Action for the National Health Committee. March 1999

BreastScreen Aotearoa More about breast screening and the National Breast Screening Programme - Produced by the National Screening Unit

This booklet is available free throughout New Zealand/Aotearoa from The National Screening Unit and available online at: http://www.healthed.govt.nz/uploads/docs/HE10107.pdf

Contents:

• Breast cancer in New Zealand
• What are Mammograms?
• What Mammograms can achieve
• Benefits of mammography for women 50 and over
• The National Breast Screening Programme
• Mammography for women who are not part of the programme
• Limitations and risks of screening
• Techniques of diagnosing cancer
• What happens if a cancer is found?
• What causes breast cancer
• Breast Self Help
• Examination by a Doctor
• References

Health Information Check-Up "Know your Privacy Rights) - Produced by the Privacy Commissioner

This pamphlet is available free throughout New Zealand/Aotearoa from the Privacy Commissioner and available online at: http://www.privacy.org.nz/assets/Files/84346355.pdf

This brochure outlines your rights under the Health Information Privacy Code. The Code controls how your medical records are handled.
Doctors, nurses, specialists and other health professionals are generally very careful to make sure your personal details are kept safe. Knowing your rights means you can do a health information check-up.

 

Contents:

• What is health Information?
• Does it have to be kept safe?
• Who gets to see my health information?
• Can I see it?
• What if my health information is wrong?
• What if I'm not happy?
• The Health Information Privacy Code
• Questions and Answers

 

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