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Regional Director of Public Health's Report for 1990

Annual Report by Sir Liam for the Northern Regional Health Authority.

Health issues covered in this report significant to the Northern Region include;

The importance of healthy living in childhood, including eating for a healthy heart, health risk-taking in adolescence, and making health fun;

Maintaining healthy lifestyles in adulthood, including supervising family's health, preventing cancers in women, and communities with major health disadvantages;

And health issues for the elderly, including rapid responses to preventable problems in old age, and supporting the elderly whose independence is threatened by dementia.

Regional Director of Public Health's Report for 1992

Annual Report by Sir Liam for the Northern Regional Health Authority.

Health issues covered in this report significant to the Northern Region include;

Progress on the previous years' recommendations and major achievements in the region;

Adequately diagnosing and treating high blood pressure;

Prescribing cheaper but equally effective medicines to save money and treat more patients;

Greater use of day case surgerys in hospitals;

Reducing the risk of death through meningitis by administering penicillin injections before transferring sufferers to hospital;

Administering steroids to mothers in premature labour to reduce incidences of respiratory distress syndrome;

And the development and use of agreed clinical guidlines to standardise the treatment of patients.

Report for the Provider Conference

Report with multiple authors, including Sir Liam, arising from a Provider Conference for the Northern Regional Health Authority. Sir Liam's section is entitled Strategy for Health and Health Care in the Northern Region: Vision and Values .

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