This research published in International Journal for Equity in Health found that New Zealand is failing in its duty to provide the right to adequate food for indigenous children. Given the importance of food to health, the need for a broad policy approach from the NZ government...
As the government shifts its focus from COVID- 19 elimination to addressing the longer- term social and economic repercussions of the pandemic, it is critical that Mäori are able to partner and lead in decision- making. In the new normal of a post- COVID Aotearoa,...
Everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand has a right to live, grow, learn, and work in an environment that provides access to healthy, affordable, and safe food. ANA is a national organisation with a vision that everyone in New Zealand can and does eat well and...
This visual explanation is a simple resource to teach people to better understand Type 2 diabetes. It is written by doctors for people with diabetes in English, Maori, Samoan and Tongan. Watch the Type 2 diabetes story ...
5+ A Day Charitable Trust has released a new story book for young children that showcases kai hauora (healthy food) and traditional Māori knowledge. Te Taonga nei te Kūmara (The Gift of Kūmara) will be made available to all Kōhanga Reo to meet the demand for nutrition resources...
Toi Te Kupu is a Māori-to-English and English-to-Māori dictionary about kai, cooking, our body and our mind. It is the result of the commitment of the Heart Foundation and Māori Health Provider, Toi Tangata, to improve the health of families and whānau in New Zealand. The resource was developed to empower everyone in Aotearoa to have conversations...
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...
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 ...
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...
Kai Town came about following a national Healthy Families focus on the kaupapa of kai. Armed with our learning from a previous Healthy Families Far North kai project in Kaikohe, a design challenge question was posed that was “How might we flood Kaitāia with an...
