Strategies & Reports from the Ministry of Health

Child Health Strategy (1998)

The Child Health Strategy was developed through extensive consultation with the child health community in New Zealand so to display the child health community's views about what is needed to improve health outcomes for children/tamariki and their families and whanau in New Zealand.
Child Health Strategy

Influences in Childhood on the Development of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes in Adulthood: An Occasional Paper (2005)

This paper examines the medical literature on the childhood determinants which correlate to adulthood diabetes and cardiovascular disease in an effort to inform policy decisions and program implementation in the health sector. It also provides important information for health practitioners who are striving reduce the chronic disease trends for adults in NZ.
Influences in Childhood

Health Eating Healthy Action: Strategic Framework (2003)

This strategy calls for a more integrated and multi-sectoral approach to addressing nutrition, physical activity and obesity, and highlights the importance of both individual behaviour and our environment.
Strategic Framework
Background Paper

Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Adolescents: (2003)

This paper examines the key nutrition issues concerning adolescent health providing important guidelines which align with National Nutrition Policy and are a valuable resource for health professionals, educators and caregivers.
Guidelines for Healthy Adolescents

Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Children Age 2-12 Years: (1997)

This paper outlines the causes of ill-health and well-being in relation to nutrition for children aged 2-12 years and provides important information on appropriate nutritional intake to promote and maintain growth and development of all children.
Guidelines for Healthy Children

Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Infants and Toddlers Aged 0-2 years: (2008)

The paper highlights how the Food and Nutrition Guidelines can be specifically applied to infants and toddlers and informs on areas specific to this age group including starting solids, and baby infant formula.
Guidelines for Health Infants and Toddlers