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New Zealand is a high income country, and this is reflected in the overall good health status of the population. However like other wealthy countries, New Zealand suffers from high rates of obesity and heart disease.[1]
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[2] finds that New Zealand is doing 92.3% of what should be possible at its level of income for the right to health.[3]
- ^ Streib, Lauren (8 February 2007). "World's Fattest Countries". Forbes. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries". humanrightsmeasurement.org. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "New Zealand - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 25 February 2022.