Curriculum-based health programmes can result in consistent improvements to physical activity levels in primary school-aged children, with significant but limited effects on body size and fruit consumption. Read the research here...
The Prime Minister has announced that Year 1-8 students in up to 30 schools will be offered a free school lunch from Term 1, 2020. Up to 21,000 students in around 120 schools will eventually benefit from this prototype by the beginning of 2021. A...
The actions presented provide an initial overview and overall policy directions and refers to more detailed information for the next steps. They focus on intersectoral collaboration between a wide range of partners – international organisations, governments, and national and subnational actors – to create enabling...
The Active NZ survey measures nationwide participation in play, active recreation and sport. The survey is sent to a sample of New Zealanders on the electoral roll through our research partner, Neilsen. Following on from the redesign in 2017, this is the second year of data collection...
This is the third report card which identifies and grades nine physical activity indicators for children and youth aged 5 – 18 years. Grades are assigned according to the percentage of children meeting a defined target. (2018)...
A west Auckland community is tired of seeing its children being targeted by fast-food marketing and suffering the effects of a poor diet and is gearing up to make its food environment healthier. The University of Auckland and Healthy Families Waitākere partnered to facilitate four workshops...
The Southern Cross Health Society -Business NZ Wellness Survey has tried to provide a picture of health and wellbeing in the NZ workplace. ANA takes a brief look at a workplace wellness report published on New Zealand (NZ) workplaces on 22 August 2019. This new report...
Researchers explored how food insecurity was experienced in Maori households and how this can affect hauora (well-being)....
This open letter published in the New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) on 16th August 2019 is in response to the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) review of the Alcohol Advertising and Promotion Code. It explains the reasons for the decision by the Health Coalition Aotearoa not...
The recommendations contained in the Review Report are designed to address some of the key criticisms of the current system. The key recommendations from the report are that: the HSR system continue as a voluntary system with the addition of some specific industry uptake targets...
