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04 Dec ANA’s Guide to Practical Christmas Gifts for Less than $20

Posted at 12:08h in Healthy Community by Alison Pask

Alison Pask has put together this basic guide to help you find healthy and affordable Christmas gifts . Create your own homemade voucher by giving the gift of time. This could be for: babysitting gardening lawn mowing washing the car mending doing the groceries A homemade ...

29 Nov Getting Female University Students Active

Posted at 12:41h in Healthy Education by Alison Pask

There is a significant gender gap in the participation rates of Higher Education students. Women in Sport partnered up with British Universities and Colleges Sport to share insights into how to engage inactive female students within universities. Student Activators focused on engaging students and collating...

29 Nov Table Tennis in the Workplace Associated with Workplace Wellbeing

Posted at 11:31h in Healthy Workplace by Alison Pask

A new report by Table Tennis England as part of their Loop at Work programme, explores the impact of playing table tennis at work on employee job satisfaction, workplace wellbeing, physical activity levels and general wellbeing. The employees in the study predominantly played table tennis in...

28 Nov New Statistics from the 2016/17 New Zealand Health Survey

Posted at 12:17h in Research by Alison Pask

This new data (Tier 1) provides a snapshot of the health of New Zealanders through key indicators on health behaviours, health status and access to health care for both adults and children.Tier 1 Statistics 2016/17: The tables are published on the Ministry of Health website and include...

24 Nov NZ Health Sector’s Role in Responding to Climate Change

Posted at 15:22h in Research by Alison Pask

Health professionals from around the country meet on 23 November 2017, in Wellington, to talk about how the NZ health sector can respond to the challenges of climate change for health and healthcare services. This was the first national ‘Sustainable Healthcare in Aotearoa-NZ’ forum. Flooding, storms...

22 Nov Ka Pai Kai Rotorua

Posted at 15:33h in Healthy Education, Food Security by Alison Pask

Jasmin Jackson, nutrition advisor for the Heart Foundation based in Rotorua, shares her enthusiasm for improving both learning and health outcomes for children in Rotorua. The Heart Foundation has been supporting schools to improve their canteens and tuckshops across the country for many years. Jasmin has...

09 Nov Take Home Messages from the ANA Asian Forum, Auckland 2017

Posted at 14:03h in Key Documents by Alison Pask

Participants at the last session of the Asian Forum were asked to discuss and write down their take home messages from the day. The following is a summary of the key themes of this activity. There is no one size fits all Know the statistics...

07 Nov Food Citizenship: How Thinking of Ourselves Differently can Change the Future of our Food System

Posted at 12:05h in Healthy Systems by Alison Pask

Findings of the Future of Food: a collaborative innovation project This UK report is the final output of a collaborative innovation project convened by the New Citizenship Project with support from the Food Ethics Council. The Future Of Food: Beyond The Consumer was a ten month...

07 Nov What modes of transport are associated with higher levels of physical activity? Cross-sectional study of New Zealand adults

Posted at 10:47h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

Published in the Journal of Transport and Health Authors: Caroline Shaw, Michael Keall, Hayley Guiney Abstract Objective: Active travel is seen as a way to increase net population physical activity. This paper examines whether people in New Zealand who walk, cycle or use public transport to get to their main...

07 Nov Walking and Cycling for Transport is Good for Physical Activity Levels in Kiwis

Posted at 09:14h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

Dr Caroline Shaw Physical activity is good for health. Higher levels of physical activity are associated with reduced rates of breast and colon cancer, better mental health, lower obesity rates, lower heart disease, stroke (the list goes on). This blog looks at a new study we just published...

December 2017