Activity & Nutrition Aotearoa |

16 May A Healthy Lifestyle Reduces the Risk of Dementia

Posted at 09:38h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

People can reduce their risk of dementia by getting regular exercise, not smoking, avoiding harmful use of alcohol, controlling their weight, eating a healthy diet, and maintaining healthy blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization...

30 Apr Turning the Tide- from cars to active transport

Posted at 16:18h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

Read the report and other documents here...

28 Nov $23 million to get more kids on bikes

Posted at 08:35h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter today announced that the NZ Transport Agency will provide $23 million over the next three years to expand the Bikes in Schools and cycle skills education to get more Kiwi kids on their bikes. Cycling is a fun, easy...

27 Aug Just a Bit More Biking

Posted at 09:11h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

Cars are like plastic bags. They’re not bad in themselves, it is just that we use them too often and too much. The crazy thing is that plenty of car trips in urban areas are short. (1) Short enough to walk or cycle. Sometimes we...

17 Jul Active Transport: A reflection for Aotearoa

Posted at 09:50h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

This document discusses the findings from ANA's scan of the literature on active transport. Active transport is one way to increase physical activity. Active transport is well known to have environmental and economic benefits. Cycling and walking provide substantial economic benefits for households. A key finding...

23 Feb 25 Years of New Zealand Travel

Posted at 13:35h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

This resource published in 2015 by the Ministry of Transport looks at the past 25 years of household travel in New Zealand and related information sources from 1989 to 2014. It highlights a range of changes in our travel behaviour. ...

06 Dec Designing healthy communities: creating evidence on metrics for built environment features associated with walkable neighbourhood activity centres

Posted at 08:45h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity201714:164 Authors: Lucy Dubrelle Gunn Email author, Suzanne Mavoa, Claire Boulangé, Paula Hooper, Anne Kavanagh and Billie Giles-Corti Abstract: Evidence-based metrics are needed to inform urban policy to create healthy walkable communities. Most active living research has developed metrics of the environment around residential addresses, ignoring other important walking...

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...

08 Aug Promoting Active Travel to School: a systematic review (2010–2016)

Posted at 08:37h in Healthy Environments by Alison Pask

This review has provided a detailed analysis of AST interventions published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and 2016. Following systematic literature review procedures’ 18 AST interventions were identified and subsequently analysed. The main findings of our study are: Theory utilization in AST interventions published between...

26 Jun Unmet need for GP services due to a lack of transport factsheet (2017)

Posted at 11:22h in Healthy Environments by Kim Tucker

This factsheet presents statistics on people who had a medical problem but did not visit a GP due to a lack of transport, in the previous 12 months....

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