New Zealand
New Zealand (English: NewZealand), also known as New Zealand, is a constitutional monarchy mixed with a British-style parliamentary * system of political institutions, is now one of the member states of the Commonwealth. New Zealand is located in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, and its territory consists of two major islands, the South Island and the North Island, separated by the Cook Strait, with the South Island neighboring Antarctica and the North Island looking towards Fiji and Tonga. The capital Wellington and the city of Auckland are located in the North Island.
New Zealand is a highly developed capitalist country. Ranked by the World Bank as one of the most business-friendly countries in the world, New Zealand's economy has successfully transformed from a predominantly agricultural one to an internationally competitive industrialized free market economy. New Zealand is the world's largest exporter of antlers, lamb, dairy products and wool. New Zealand is also one of the most beautiful countries in Oceania, with around 30% of the country being protected. It has three World Heritage Sites, 14 national parks, three marine parks and hundreds of nature reserves and ecological areas.
Social Welfare System
Income Support Unlike social security systems in other countries, New Zealand's income support is funded by tax revenues. There is no particular foundation in New Zealand that requires any contribution from salary earners. For those who meet the criteria for financial assistance, it is their right to receive cash benefits. These include dependency allowances, such as those for maintaining a family (support for single parents bringing up children on their own), and grants for widows and unsupported children.
Invalidity pensions included subsidies for the sick and disabled, and even loans for the disabled to move, repair their homes and buy cars.
As the average life expectancy of the population increases, the pressure on the social welfare sector is growing, and New Zealand is gradually raising the age of entitlement to a pension, reportedly to 65 this year from the previous 60, and imposing a surcharge on other income above a certain amount. However, half of the pension received from private pension organizations or insurance companies is exempt from surtax. Veterans' pensions are aligned nationally. There are also work-related relief vocational training and unemployment benefits. There is also a subsidy given during the search for work.
Other forms of subsidy are child support, funeral allowances and rehabilitation grants.
New Zealand's benefits are adjusted annually, mostly according to the number of earnings. Some earners will have to wait a while before they receive their benefit.
New Zealand's social welfare departments across the country are very responsive to those in need, and those who seek help generally do not have an inferiority complex.
International agreements In addition to the welfare benefits New Zealand has for its own people, New Zealand has agreements with Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Greece and the Netherlands that allow certain benefits to be transferred from one country to another. New Zealand pensioners receive half of their New Zealand pension while residing in countries such as Australia, the UK, Ireland, Greece and the Netherlands, and the full pension if they reside in the Kuril Islands, Niue or Tokelau.
Ministry of Children and Youth Affairs
New Zealand's social welfare sector also has a Ministry of Children and Youth Affairs, which cares for and protects children, and is responsible for, among other things, youth court maintenance.
The care and protection of children includes the provision of appropriate family maintenance grants; assessment and investigation of juvenile crime cases by social welfare officers; and guardianship and protection of *children* and investigations into this.
Youth courts work with the families of young people (under 16) who have committed crimes. They teach young people to take responsibility for their actions and encourage them to develop themselves as responsible and socially acceptable individuals.
Community foundations
Community foundations are community-based, social welfare and health care organizations. Funded community houses are built to accommodate female refugees, young people in difficult circumstances, the mentally ill and the mentally and physically disabled. New Zealand had a $139 million contract with the Foundation in the 1992-1993 financial year.
Health and safety
Health services
New Zealand's four District Health Boards use government grants to purchase health and disability rehabilitation equipment for the public, and private hospitals and volunteer organizations seek to provide the public with reasonably priced, quality health care. The annual cost per person in New Zealand is approximately $1750, of which 80 is paid by the Government. The District Health Boards cover the cost of all inpatient treatment, maternity and laboratory services in their districts. Other costs, such as medication and hospital outpatient visits, are paid by the patients themselves. Long-term home care for older people is based on income and assets.
New Zealanders can also choose to take out private health insurance, which allows them to buy health insurance and surgical services from private organizations.
Health payments from the District Health Boards mean that at least some people are subsidized to some extent, and there are more subsidies for people on lower incomes. And dental treatment that is available to people under 16 years of age, as well as to schoolchildren or non-independent teenagers between 16 and 18 years of age.
The boards of each healthcare organization are required to register the healthcare professionals under their management and are responsible for reviewing their attainment of qualified professional standards and regulating the practice of medicine. All healthcare professionals, including chiropractors and dietitians, need to hold a practicing certificate or license in order to work in the healthcare industry.
Hospitals New Zealand has tens of thousands of beds across the country, with the vast majority in public hospitals. There are more than a dozen psychiatric hospitals and more than a dozen psychiatric (or specialist) units attached to public hospitals. Doctors and nurses hold qualified professional certificates to ensure the quality of care.
Public health
The Ministry of Health, the Regional Health Directorate and the local governments are responsible for maintaining and improving the level of health in their respective communities, including inspecting plumbing and drainage systems, sanitation and the daily condition of houses. They are also responsible for water supply, food hygiene, sewage and waste disposal, and other health-related matters.
New Zealand has a good natural environment, a hygienic and strict environment, all thanks to the management of the health sector and the good hygiene awareness and habits that have been formed by New Zealanders over a long period of time. In New Zealand, all the food for sale is through strict health quarantine, people do not have to worry about the phenomenon of littering and spitting, there is no damage to the phenomenon of public **** facilities, for the animals and plants, people love and care.
Accident Compensation Coverage-ACC
If a New Zealand resident is involved in an accident, he or she will be covered by accident insurance. Accident Compensation Compensation (ACC) is a compulsory insurance policy in New Zealand that provides comprehensive accident compensation and rehabilitation services, with benefits delivered in full by a designated authority. Petrol tax and motor vehicle license fees are used to compensate for car accidents; employee contributions are used to compensate for accidents that occur in the workplace. A large proportion of accident compensation costs in New Zealand are for accidents that occur at home or while playing sport or recreation.
Civil defense and fire safety
Students in all New Zealand schools are regularly exposed to simulated earthquakes, and workers are constantly on high alert for unexpected fires. Communities are responsible for dealing with emergency emergencies, such as earthquakes and flooding, with the assistance of civil defense volunteers, so that if an emergency does occur, people are generally not alarmed and incidents are dealt with in an organized manner.
New Zealand is divided into 265 'fire districts', of which 246 are staffed by volunteer firefighters, who are the most essential members of the fire service.
Occupational safety and health
All employers in New Zealand are required to provide a healthy working environment for their employees, to inspect and monitor harmful and hazardous conditions, and to train their employees to deal with accidents. Employees must also take responsibility for safety in the workplace and not allow anything to be done that jeopardizes their own health and safety or that of others. If an employer or employee violates occupational safety and health regulations, they are subject to penalties and even prosecution.