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30 Sep Girls and Young Women Profile

Posted at 12:49h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

A resource to help organisations better understand the experiences and needs of girls and young women. Sport New Zealand’s Community Sport Strategy identifies females aged 10–18 years as a target participant group. It is essential that the needs of girls and young women are understood, so high-quality...

30 Sep Young People Profile

Posted at 12:47h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

A resource to help organisations better understand the experiences and needs of young people. Developing a love of play, active recreation and sport at an early age helps encourage life-long participation. That’s why young people aged 5–18 years are the primary focus of Sport New...

30 Sep Samoan Participation Profile

Posted at 12:44h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

A resource to help organisations better understand the experiences and needs of Samoan adults and young people. Both Samoan adults and young people enjoy and are passionate about play, active recreation and sport. However, Samoan adults have lower rates of participation than the general population....

26 Sep The relationship between transport-to-school habits and physical activity in a sample of New Zealand adolescents

Posted at 12:42h in Healthy Environments by Kim Tucker

Adolescents using active transport (AT) to school have higher levels of physical activity (PA) compared with motorized transport (MT) users. This study compared school day and weekend day PA in adolescents using AT, MT, or combined AT and MT (AT + MT) to travel to school....

26 Sep The World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia

Posted at 11:32h in Key Documents by Kim Tucker

These guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations on lifestyle behaviours and interventions to delay or prevent cognitive decline and dementia....

26 Sep Interventions for preventing obesity in children

Posted at 10:45h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

Strategies for changing both diet and physical activity for children to help prevent overweight or obesity are effective in making modest reductions in BMI in children up to the age of 12. Less evidence was found for adolescents and young people aged 13 to 18. This...

26 Sep Sugar reduction: report on progress between 2015 and 2018

Posted at 10:39h in Advocacy by Kim Tucker

This report by Public Health England shows progress on the sugar reduction programme which challenged the food industry to reduce 20% of sugar from children’s diets, by 2020....

26 Sep 2019 Healthy Auckland Scorecard

Posted at 10:35h in Healthy Community by Kim Tucker

The Scorecard brings together obesity, nutrition, physical activity and child dental health data, giving a consolidated insight into the health of adults and children living in New Zealand’s biggest city, Tāmaki Makaurau. ...

23 Sep The Health and Disability System Review (Interim Report)

Posted at 09:50h in Healthy Systems by Kim Tucker

The Health and Disability System Review is charged with taking a system-wide approach to what needs to change to ensure our future system achieves better and more equitable health and wellbeing outcomes for all New Zealanders. The interim report aims to achieve three things: reflect...

19 Sep Families and Whānau Status Report 2018

Posted at 10:34h in Food Security, Healthy Education by Kim Tucker

This is the sixth in a series of annual reports by Superu about family and whānau wellbeing in New Zealand. The report on multiple disadvantage among sole parents in New Zealand has also been produced as part of the 2018 programme. Due to Superu's disestablishment on...

Author: Kim Tucker