OSTEOPOROSIS

Osteoporosis NZ is the only national organisation in New Zealand specifically committed to improving the lives of people living with osteoporosis, and preventing the fractures it causes... In 2013, Osteoporosis NZ worked with the Health Quality & Safety Commission (HQSC) to increase awareness of BoneCare 2020 among health professionals. See Topic 6 of HQSC's Reducing harm from falls initiative. Osteoporosis NZ also sought to increase awareness of the variation in access to bone mineral density (BMD) testing across New Zealand. Our publication appeared in the international journal Archives of Osteoporosis and was shared with professional organisations and government departments... By 2018, Osteoporosis New Zealand intends to demonstrate a 25% improvement in national awareness of osteoporosis, and the fractures that it causes, compared with results from a baseline public survey of adults carried out in 2015.

Also known as: Osteoporosis New Zealand, Osteoporosis NZ