New Zealand is walking the talk in the battle to tackle climate change with 18 health organisations as well as 60 businesses committing to decisive ac...

Ramping up action to combat climate change is essential if we are to help our Pacific Island neighbours says the Minister for Climate Change, James Sh...

As the Smokefree Coalition prepared to wind down its operations – a victim of its own success – Hauora’s Jo Lawrence-King talked to its outgoing Execu...

Health Promotion Forum’s Senior Health Promotion Strategist Dr Viliami Puloka presented his thoughts home grown solutions to the Pacific’s...

Te Kōpae Piripono is a successful whānau intervention based in Taranaki.  Te Pou Tiringa and the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, University o...

January 2016:  Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hicks contributed this post to the WHO’s This Week in Global Health   Health Promot...

Health Promotion Forum was fortunate to get some time with Emeritus Professor John Raeburn recently, to ask him about his more than 40 years as a heal...

A new charter is a call to action on health and wellbeing at tertiary education centres around the world.  The Okanagan Charter was produced in Octobe...

In October 2015 HPF’s Deputy Executive Director Trevor Simpson and Senior Health Strategist, Dr Viliami Puloka together presented to a multi-sec...

campaigns for smokefree cars     Northland Health Provider Te Hiku Hauora is leading a campaign to encourage Government to legislate against...

  Zoe Aroha Martin-Hawke is National Manager – Te Ara Ha Ora: Māori Tobacco Control Leadership service at Hapai Te Hauora.  Jo Lawrence-King find...

The majority of New Zealanders now support a tax on sugary drinks.  That is according to public health advisory group FIZZ (Fighting Sugar in Soft-dri...

Following her attendance at the Equity at the Centre Conference in Alice Springs (4-5 September 2014), HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hi...

Alice Springs, September 2014 In September HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hicks represented Aotearoa New Zealand at the Australian Healt...

Health Promotion: Enlightenment, engagement and empowerment View the powerpoint presentations from a workshop with Professor Sir Mason Durie on 17 Sep...

A feature article on an Australian TV website has highlighted the issue of the indigenous health gap; an issue that echoes the situation of Māori here...

“Inequalities in health exist both within and between countries.  They are both unnecessary and unjust.  They also create a great cost to societ...

A paper published this year in Social Science & Medicine Journal has concluded that income inequality does indeed have a negative effect on popula...

Plunket’s Asian strategy is expected to be implemented in July 2015.  The strategy addresses all  levels of the organisation, including the staff, vol...

Scottish MPs (MSPs) have called for a multi-agency approach to tackle inequalities.  This follows the publication of the Report on Health Inequalities...

ActiveAsian aims to improve access to physical activity information and opportunities for Chinese children and their parents on Auckland’s North Shore...

John Wong, the Chair of Chinese Positive Ageing Charitable Trust (CPA), talked to the Eldernet Gazette in July 2014 about what ageing in New Zealand m...

Smokefree Communities aims to provide support to families, Asian people and their families and pregnant women and their families to quit smoking and l...

This guide helps communities have a voice in the submission process. Produced by Regional Public Health, it gives advice and tips for health promoters...

The Alma-Ata Declaration is considered by many to be the founding framework for health promotion internationally.  It came from an International Confe...

This literature review, commissioned by the former Health Funding Authority in December 2000, examined the most relevant literature on strategies that...

World Health Report 2008 – Primary Health Care – Now More than Ever “Globalization is putting the social cohesion of many countries ...

The first 1000 days of a child’s life are critical to their long term development. One thousand days is also approximately the duration of one term of...

  “Making inroads into the elimination of child poverty may just be the remedy we all need for the ever increasing costs to the health system. Ke...

  “Making inroads into the elimination of child poverty may just be the remedy we all need for the ever increasing costs to the health system. Ke...

The 2014 Child Poverty Monitor released this month shows that reducing child poverty will require bold and sustained commitment from government. Child...

A pilot sexual health training programme for Asian youth workers in 2012 provided invaluable insight into the best ways to reach Chinese youth with im...

Following her attendance at the Equity at the Centre Conference in Alice Springs (4-5 September 2014), HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hi...

Health professionals are calling for a comprehensive health impact assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to protect the health o...

A briefing by the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZPCHM) for the incoming Health Minister focuses his attention on seven key issues: h...

In the report from the Equity at the Centre Congress in Alice Springs (4-5 September 2014), HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hicks Martin ...

All but one of all the political parties of New Zealand have responded to last month’s invitation, by the Institutional Racism Special Interest Group ...

Outgoing co-leader of the Maori Party, the Honourable Tariana Turia, signalled her support for public health and health promotion this week.  In a hea...

A new occasional paper published this week argues that, in building the capacity of the HP workforce, models of good practice in education and trainin...

An in-depth paper published in The Lancet this February urges policy makers to recognise and address global political determinants of health inequity....

South West Pacific health promotion leaders have undertaken in March to develop a work plan that includes research, New Zealand representation at glob...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published five new policy guides for addressing health inequity.  The guides have been produced by New Zealand...

  In a recent Health and Social Needs report prepared by Litmus Ltd for the Ministry of Health the Chatham Island community was described as havi...

    In a consultation draft published this month, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has renewed its commitment to health promotion as one of five...

In a consultation draft published in 2013, the Ministry of Health (MoH) renewed its commitment to health promotion as one of five core functions for p...

Child Poverty Action Group’s Associate Professor Susan St John has decried the Working for Families scheme and called for the correction of “the moral...

Child Poverty Action Group’s Associate Professor Susan St John has decried the Working for Families scheme and called for the correction of “the moral...

  In an article in Public Health Monitor on 7 February, Prof Boyd Swinburn* took a look at the Australian initiative that has informed the Govern...

  HPF – and New Zealand – is making a significant contribution to world health agendas.  Its most recent input was to the scientific ...

  Bruce Jesson Lecture 2013 “Assertive, if not aggressive approach” called for by the Right Hon Sir Edmund Thomas   Retired Court Appe...

  Health Promotion Forum (HPF) Executive Director Sione Tu’itahi is calling on health promoters at all levels to join forces and make a differenc...

Pacific health researchers called for a greater focus and action around Pacific children in their early years to break the cycle of poverty before thi...

The release, on Monday 9 December, of the first annual monitor of child poverty shows that one in four children* in Aotearoa New Zealand live in incom...

  A new policy summary, issued by the WHO (World Health Organisation) on 4 November, reveals substantial evidence to support the economic case fo...

  An article published in the 20 November edition of NZ Doctor suggests the Government may be considering funding a community based health promot...

  Why are the raids of Ruātoki in Uruwera a health promotion issue? What can our profession do to help all those involved, as well as prevent suc...

30 October 2013: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a review, which  “answers policy-makers’ demands for practical guidance on social po...

  An article published in Christchurch’s The Press newspaper proposes the way we engage the broader public in the inequality debate is to make th...

  Papers published this month in England, Wales and Scotland further support the case for a reduction in health inequalities. An article publishe...

  Three key project areas were agreed at a recent hui taumata (summit) of Māori Public Health Leaders at Te Ohāki Marae in Huntly. The three agre...

Health Promotion Infrastructure is the newest Thinkpiece in our Occasional Paper series Commissioned by HPF and written by Paul Stephenson see it here...

    Inquiry into the determinants of wellbeing for tamariki Māori.   A report, issued in December 2013 by the Māori Affairs Committee, ...

“The Health Promotion Forum originally asked us to develop a full cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of measures to prevent smoking and obesity in youn...

He Mara Kai (the food garden) is an initiative focusing on good nutrition and physical activity by supporting Kohanga Reo (Māori speaking early childh...

Publications The Ministry of Health has an extensive collection of publications about child health in New Zealand These include the 1998 Child HealthS...

Children and Young People: Indicators of Wellbeing in New Zealand 2008 This the second indicator report published by MSD highlighting indicators of so...

Milestones in Health Promotion. Published by World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2009, this is a collection of global statements in one booklet. Or you...

The central tenet of this English review is that avoidable health inequalities are unfair and putting them right is a matter of social justice.  “…hea...

“This position statement uses the term equity in preference to equality because it better recognises that people differ in their capacity for he...

Te Tiriti o Waitangi has been identified as the founding document of Aotearoa and the key to health promotion in this country.

On Friday 30 January 2009 the Committee adopted the General Comment on Indigenous Child Rights. This Comment urges State Parties to adopt a rights-bas...

Indigenous health gap – social determinants key A feature article on an Australian TV website has highlighted the issue of the indigenous health...