Story: Epidemics

More links and websites

• Diseases and conditions

  This section of the Ministry of Health website provides information about the Ministry’s work in relation to diseases and conditions.

• Immunisation Advisory Centre

  A nationwide organisation based at the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland which provides independent, factual information about immunisation.

• Public health surveillance

  This website, run by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), provides New Zealand public health surveillance data and information.

• The 1918 influenza pandemic

  A feature on the NZ History website.

More suggestions and sources

• Bryder, Linda, ed. A healthy country: essays on the social history of medicine in New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991.
• Donovan, J. W. ‘A study in New Zealand mortality: 6. epidemic diseases.’ New Zealand Medical Journal 70, no. 451 (1969): 406–414.
• Dow, Derek A., and Ossi Mansoor. ‘New Zealand immunisation schedule history’, New Zealand Medical Journal 109, no. 1023 (1996): 209–212.
• Maclean, F. S. Challenge for health: a history of public health in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1964.
• Mills, C. F., M. Tobias, and M. Baker. ‘A re-appraisal of the burden of infectious disease in New Zealand: aggregate estimates of morbidity and mortality.’ New Zealand Medical Journal 115, no. 1155 (2002): 254–257.
• Rice, Geoffrey W. Black flu 1918: the story of New Zealand's worst public health disaster. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2018.
• Rice, Geoffrey W. Black November: the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand. 2nd ed. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005.
• Rice, Geoffrey W. ‘Influenza in New Zealand before 1918: a preliminary report’, American Journal of Epidemiology 187, no. 12 (2018): 2524–2529.
• Rice, Geoffrey W. ‘Remembering 1918: why did Māori suffer more than seven times the death rate of non-Māori New Zealanders in the 1918 influenza pandemic?’, New Zealand Journal of History 53, no. 1 (2019): 90–108.
• Wood, Pamela. Dirt: filth and decay in a new world arcadia. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005.