Earlier this year, Te Hiringa Hauora/ Health Promotion Agency commissioned qualitative sleep research with Māori and Pasifika whānau. Participants discussed their awareness of, experiences with and barriers to following commonly promoted infant sleep messages.The findings are available in a report and a two page poster. Download...
Nutrition needs are higher during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Meeting those needs is important for a healthy mother and baby. Expensive supplements are often marketed to parents wanting to conceive, during pregnancy and when breastfeeding. However, with the exception of folic acid and iodine, most women...
New Zealand's most successful and effective school-based nutrition initiative Fruit & Vegetables in Schools (FIS) has been selected for inclusion in a report for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Read Article ...
The Youth19 Rangatahi Smart Survey (Youth19) is the latest in the Youth2000 series of health and wellbeing surveys. Youth19 was conducted in 2019 in the Auckland, Northland and Waikato regions by researchers from The University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Otago &...
The southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has banned the sale of sugary drinks and high-calorie snack foods to children – a measure aimed at curbing obesity. Read Article ...
For more than 20 years, sugary drinks have been banned at Glenview School, Porirua, and students there say it's given their education and lives a big boost. Read article ...
Toi Tangata is encouraging awareness, education and action when it comes to the world’s most prevalent nutrient deficiency. Ensuring whānau are getting the right nutrients at the right times is both important and challenging and this is often guided by mum. More Information ...
7 September 2020Carolyn Watts is a public health consultant. She chairs the board of The Common Unity Project. My segue into public health came from a deep interest and passion in research. I first trained as a dietitian and worked as a paediatric dietitian for several...
At RefillNZ we have been ‘working’ with councils to get location data of all the public water fountains throughout NZ on the RefillNZ map and App, so it’s easier to find somewhere to get ‘free water’.Unfortunately the findings show there is room for improvement -...
This National Science Challenge brief summarises He Pikinga Waiora project and framework that aimed to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity by finding an effective way of creating, implementing and evaluating health interventions for Indigenous communities. Read the...
