Each prisoner costs NZ $150,000 a year. Could that money be better spent keeping at-risk youth healthy, housed, fed and educated instead?
The Frontline with Dr Gary PayindaShow Notes
When kids or adults face poverty, hunger, and a breakdown in social relationships, is it any surprise that they turn to gangs, drugs, or violence? Isopo Samu of Tokotoko Solutions has spent a lifetime working with at-risk youth as a police officer, a teacher, and for the past 15 years as the founder or director of multiple youth and work-training organisations. We talk about how we can best use our time and money to help keep kids in school, and families together.
More from The Frontline with Dr Gary Payinda
A conversation with doctor/poet/researchers Glenn Colquhoun and Art Nahill, who have just finished the final part of their 'Hikoi 4 Health'.
Environmental epidemiologist Dr Tim Chambers spoke with The Frontline about how nitrate runoffs is affecting our national drinking water supply. How much of a risk is it? What can communities and households do about it? Why is it happening and how do we control it?
After 30 years as a GP and writer, Lucy O'Hagan now has a solo show coming to theatres around Aotearoa. Lucy shares with The Frontline audience her perspective on the patient-doctor interaction as an act of storytelling.
Dr Erik Monasterio is a forensic psychiatrist with a long and illustrious career as a leader in forensic mental health, a speciality that works at the intersection of the criminal justice system and the health system.
Today we talk with patient advocate and healthcare researcher, Dr Malcolm Mulholland, founder of Patient Voice Aotearoa and leader within Kaitiaki Hauora, Together for Public Health, an advocacy group fighting the privatisation of New Zealand's public healthcare system.