Snapshot of NZ food environments an eye-opener
August 30, 2018A major cause of New Zealand’s very high rates of obesity has been mapped in a world-first study from the University of Auckland providing a full pict...
NZ’s childhood obesity needs ‘addressing urgently’
August 30, 2016Action to reduce New Zealand’s alarming childhood obesity rate needs to focus on the physical and social environments we live in, says the New Zealand...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Healthy Families NZ just might work
February 11, 2014In an article in Public Health Monitor on 7 February, Prof Boyd Swinburn* took a look at the Australian initiative that has informed the Govern...
Whanau Ora: a model for people around the world
February 4, 2014A speech to parliament on Wednesday 28 January 2014 by Minister Tariana Turia has highlighted the groundswell of support for Whanau Ora as a mo...
Children’s Commissioner: “Prioritise child poverty in 2014 elections”
December 20, 2013Children’s Commissioner: “Prioritise child poverty in 2014 elections” Children’s Commissioner Dr Russell Wills has called for child poverty to b...
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...
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...
Take the White Ribbon Pledge
November 11, 2013HPF Deputy Executive Director and White Ribbon Ambassador Trevor Simpson joined the call this month to New Zealanders to take the White Ribbon ...
Inquiry into the determinants of wellbeing for tamariki Māori
June 18, 2013Inquiry into the determinants of wellbeing for tamariki Māori. A report, issued in December 2013 by the Māori Affairs Committee, ...
Children’s health disparities require urgent action
August 13, 2011Children’s health disparities require urgent action “The large health disparities in the health status of New Zealand children, which hav...
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...
Strengthening the promotion of child health in NZ
October 28, 2010Where Health Begins ‘New Zealand’s child health outcomes compare poorly internationally. In a 2009 report from the Organisation for Economic Co-...