
Report draws on mātauranga Māori
April 19, 2022He taiao tōnui mō ngā reanga katoa – a flourishing environment for every generation.The Environment Aotearoa 2022 report has changed the way it report...

Act now to secure our future
March 2, 2022The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report shows that climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a hea...

Calls to combat climate crisis heat up!
November 12, 2021In part one of a special series in the Hauora newsletter, as COP26 comes to a close in Glasgow, Scotland, we look at repeated warnings and recent call...

Declaration an urgent call for transforming how we live
October 7, 2021“While we should continue to focus on addressing Covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand, we need to also continue addressing the health of the planet, the u...

Join the Plastic-free July challenge
July 6, 2021HPF is encouraging you to join millions of people around the world by taking the Plastic Free July challenge and helping to rid our planet of plastic ...

Healthcare system reforms welcomed
April 22, 2021HPF has welcomed Government’s plans to revamp and strengthen the healthcare system to provide more equitable and better health care for all New Zealan...

ACT now to protect our planet
April 22, 2021Today on Earth Day (April 22) we urge you to take action to protect our precious planet and demonstrate our support for environmental protection.With ...

Anti-racism posters join Te Papa collection
March 31, 2021The four winning posters of the Aotearoa Poster Competition, which was launched last year in response to anti-Chinese sentiments that arose out of Cov...

Taitamariki wellbeing a priority
March 30, 2021A project led by the Whangārei South healthcare locality, one of six localities being set up by HPF member Mahitahi Hauora across Te Tai Tokerau, is g...

Health promotion ‘most optimistic of health professions’
March 30, 2021Dr Grace Wong has been an avid health promoter for many years and is a leading advocate for tobacco control in Aotearoa. A part-time senior lecturer i...

Otara Health committed to health and wellbeing of community
December 10, 2020“Otara Health (OH) walks its talk and strives to encourage the organisations in the systems across all the sectors to lower their barriers to work bet...

Why Pasifika Health Models? Do They Work?
April 1, 2020by Sione Tu’itahi, Executive Director, Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand (HPF) Auckland University of Technology (AUT), August 19, 2015

Landmark ruling opens door for climate refugees
January 28, 2020A historic ruling based on a complaint filed by a Pacific Islander in New Zealand has opened the door to climate-change asylum claims. The UN Human Ri...

Major boost for mental health training
November 27, 2019Up to 12,000 people will be trained in mental health and addictions issues over the next four years boosting health and wellbeing for more New Ze...

Call to boost health literacy
October 17, 2019“Helping people and community to be health literate is enabling and empowering people to be confident, informed and engaged in decisions that influenc...

Pacific environment focus of symposium
October 8, 2019HPF’s Executive Director, Sione Tu’itahi joined a panel of speakers, who are passionate and committed to helping Pacific people combat climate change,...

Oceans and ice bear brunt of climate change
October 2, 2019The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report highlights the urgency of prioritizing timely, ambitious and coordinated ac...

Exploring way to wellbeing
September 24, 2019The Health Promotion Forum is encouraging New Zealanders to participate in Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) which started yesterday (September 23)....

Protecting nature priority for conservation week
September 19, 2019This year we’re celebrating 50 years of Conservation Week (Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa), a time to not only get involved in activities at home or at the ma...

Conference has lasting impact
July 11, 2019HPF’s Executive Director Sione Tu’itahi talks to Hauora about the outcomes, goals and lasting impact of the global Health Promotion Forum ...

Mental health and wellbeing now taken seriously
July 11, 2019The Wellbeing Budget announcements indicate that the Government is starting to take mental health seriously, says Zoe Hawke, Mental Health Foundation ...

Waiora – Indigenous Peoples’ Statement for Planetary Health and Sustainable Development
April 11, 2019This Statement from Indigenous participants in the 23 rd IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion (Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a call on the h...

WAIORA: Promoting Planetary Health and Sustainable Development for All
April 11, 2019Rotorua Statement This Statement represents the collective voice of the social movement members, researchers, practitioners and policymakers who parti...

Coalition to focus on health equity
November 29, 2018To provide a collective voice and expert support for effective policies and actions to reduce the harm from tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy foods, a ne...

Meeting the challenge head-on
July 12, 2018New 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...

Climate action vital for Pacific
July 12, 2018Ramping 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...

Smokefree Coalition; victim of its own success
October 15, 2016As 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...

Home grown solutions
April 26, 2016Health Promotion Forum’s Senior Health Promotion Strategist Dr Viliami Puloka presented his thoughts home grown solutions to the Pacific’s...

Te Kōpae Piripono: early childhood education based whanau intervention
March 27, 2016Te Kōpae Piripono is a successful whānau intervention based in Taranaki. Te Pou Tiringa and the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, University o...
Health Promotion: an effective approach to sustainable development
March 22, 2016January 2016: Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hicks contributed this post to the WHO’s This Week in Global Health Health Promot...

Prof John Raeburn: health promotion advocate
March 20, 2016Health 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...

Charter: call to action on health and wellbeing in tertiary education
November 26, 2015A 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...

Towards Health Equity – putting tools in the kete
October 13, 2015In October 2015 HPF’s Deputy Executive Director Trevor Simpson and Senior Health Strategist, Dr Viliami Puloka together presented to a multi-sec...

Northland health promoter campaigns for smokefree cars
October 9, 2015campaigns for smokefree cars Northland Health Provider Te Hiku Hauora is leading a campaign to encourage Government to legislate against...

Health promotion is at the heart of Hapai te Hauora
October 7, 2015Zoe Aroha Martin-Hawke is National Manager – Te Ara Ha Ora: Māori Tobacco Control Leadership service at Hapai Te Hauora. Jo Lawrence-King find...

Majority support for tax on sugary drinks
September 30, 2015The 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...
Politics, Power and People
September 25, 2015Following her attendance at the Equity at the Centre Conference in Alice Springs (4-5 September 2014), HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hi...
Equity at the Centre conference, Alice Springs, Sep 2014
September 25, 2015Alice 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
September 13, 2015Health Promotion: Enlightenment, engagement and empowerment View the powerpoint presentations from a workshop with Professor Sir Mason Durie on 17 Sep...

Indigenous health gap – social determinants key
July 29, 2015A 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 come at great cost to society – Eurohealth
April 22, 2015“Inequalities in health exist both within and between countries. They are both unnecessary and unjust. They also create a great cost to societ...
Robust paper demonstrates link between inequity and population health
April 22, 2015A paper published this year in Social Science & Medicine Journal has concluded that income inequality does indeed have a negative effect on popula...

Plunket initiative to meet needs of Asian Mums
February 24, 2015Plunket’s Asian strategy is expected to be implemented in July 2015. The strategy addresses all levels of the organisation, including the staff, vol...

Scottish politicians seek multi-agency approach
January 14, 2015Scottish MPs (MSPs) have called for a multi-agency approach to tackle inequalities. This follows the publication of the Report on Health Inequalities...
ActiveAsian
January 13, 2015ActiveAsian aims to improve access to physical activity information and opportunities for Chinese children and their parents on Auckland’s North Shore...

Chinese Positive Ageing Charitable Trust
January 13, 2015John 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
January 13, 2015Smokefree Communities aims to provide support to families, Asian people and their families and pregnant women and their families to quit smoking and l...
Working with communities to participate in the submission process
January 12, 2015This guide helps communities have a voice in the submission process. Produced by Regional Public Health, it gives advice and tips for health promoters...
Declaration of Alma-Ata
December 30, 2014The Alma-Ata Declaration is considered by many to be the founding framework for health promotion internationally. It came from an International Confe...
Improving Access to Primary Care for Māori and Pacific Peoples
December 30, 2014This literature review, commissioned by the former Health Funding Authority in December 2000, examined the most relevant literature on strategies that...
‘Now more than ever’ – WHO 2008
December 30, 2014World Health Report 2008 – Primary Health Care – Now More than Ever “Globalization is putting the social cohesion of many countries ...

1000 days to get it right
December 30, 2014The 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...

“Inequalities stymie health gains for Polynesians”
December 15, 2014“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...

Inequalities stymie health gains for Polynesians – Manawatu Standard
December 15, 2014“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...
2014 Child Poverty Monitor shows bold action needed
December 8, 2014The 2014 Child Poverty Monitor released this month shows that reducing child poverty will require bold and sustained commitment from government. Child...

Chinese Women’s Wellness Community Group
December 8, 2014A pilot sexual health training programme for Asian youth workers in 2012 provided invaluable insight into the best ways to reach Chinese youth with im...
Equity at the Centre – highlights
November 23, 2014Following 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 urge review of TPP
October 28, 2014Health professionals are calling for a comprehensive health impact assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to protect the health o...
‘Prescription for a Healthier NZ” – NZCPHM
October 13, 2014A briefing by the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZPCHM) for the incoming Health Minister focuses his attention on seven key issues: h...
The economics of social justice
September 25, 2014In the report from the Equity at the Centre Congress in Alice Springs (4-5 September 2014), HPF Senior Health Promotion Strategist Karen Hicks Martin ...

NZ political parties state their position on institutional racism
September 13, 2014All but one of all the political parties of New Zealand have responded to last month’s invitation, by the Institutional Racism Special Interest Group ...

“Mauri ora!” Strong endorsement of population health from Tariana Turia
July 15, 2014Outgoing co-leader of the Maori Party, the Honourable Tariana Turia, signalled her support for public health and health promotion this week. In a hea...

Call for national governments to address determinants of health
May 1, 2014An 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 development planned
April 30, 2014South West Pacific health promotion leaders have undertaken in March to develop a work plan that includes research, New Zealand representation at glob...
WHO policy guidance
April 30, 2014The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published five new policy guides for addressing health inequity. The guides have been produced by New Zealand...

Chatham Islands provide excellent health promotion model
April 2, 2014In a recent Health and Social Needs report prepared by Litmus Ltd for the Ministry of Health the Chatham Island community was described as havi...

Ministry of Health renews its commitment to health promotion
March 18, 2014In a consultation draft published this month, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has renewed its commitment to health promotion as one of five...
Ministry of Health renews its commitment to health promotion
March 18, 2014In 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...

Worsened poverty figures prompt call for revised social security scheme
March 4, 2014Child Poverty Action Group’s Associate Professor Susan St John has decried the Working for Families scheme and called for the correction of “the moral...

Worsened poverty figures prompt call for revised social security scheme
March 4, 2014Child Poverty Action Group’s Associate Professor Susan St John has decried the Working for Families scheme and called for the correction of “the moral...

HPF making its mark on world health agendas
December 18, 2013HPF – and New Zealand – is making a significant contribution to world health agendas. Its most recent input was to the scientific ...

Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause
December 14, 2013Bruce Jesson Lecture 2013 “Assertive, if not aggressive approach” called for by the Right Hon Sir Edmund Thomas Retired Court Appe...

Think and act on all levels: Sione Tu’itahi
December 13, 2013Health Promotion Forum (HPF) Executive Director Sione Tu’itahi is calling on health promoters at all levels to join forces and make a differenc...
Call for action on Pacific Child Poverty – Dec 2013
December 12, 2013Pacific health researchers called for a greater focus and action around Pacific children in their early years to break the cycle of poverty before thi...
Monitor reveals a quarter of NZ children live in poverty
December 10, 2013The 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...

Strong economic case for health promotion
December 4, 2013A new policy summary, issued by the WHO (World Health Organisation) on 4 November, reveals substantial evidence to support the economic case fo...

Tony Ryall considers funding community Health Promotion
December 2, 2013An article published in the 20 November edition of NZ Doctor suggests the Government may be considering funding a community based health promot...

Maori public health leaders agree three areas for action
October 15, 2013Three 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
September 13, 2013Health Promotion Infrastructure is the newest Thinkpiece in our Occasional Paper series Commissioned by HPF and written by Paul Stephenson see it here...

Savings from prevention
April 13, 2013“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)
September 13, 2011He Mara Kai (the food garden) is an initiative focusing on good nutrition and physical activity by supporting Kohanga Reo (Māori speaking early childh...
Strategies & Reports from the Ministry of Health
October 31, 2010Publications The Ministry of Health has an extensive collection of publications about child health in New Zealand These include the 1998 Child HealthS...

Ministry of Social Development
October 31, 2010Children and Young People: Indicators of Wellbeing in New Zealand 2008 This the second indicator report published by MSD highlighting indicators of so...
Statements from global conferences
October 26, 2010Milestones in Health Promotion. Published by World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2009, this is a collection of global statements in one booklet. Or you...
Marmot Review 2010 – Fair Society, Healthy Lives
October 26, 2010The central tenet of this English review is that avoidable health inequalities are unfair and putting them right is a matter of social justice. “…hea...
New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) health equity position statement
October 25, 2010“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
October 25, 2010Te Tiriti o Waitangi has been identified as the founding document of Aotearoa and the key to health promotion in this country.