HPA - Health Promotion Agency

of NZers were involved in at least one gambling activity in the past 12 months (trending down from 83% in 2006)

of NZers who gambled said that they had a day or an outing where they spent more time or money than they meant to (up from 3% in 2016)

66%

of women have had someone they know tell them they have experienced mental illness, compared to 57% of men

13%

of NZers smoked daily in 2018, following a downward trend from 18% in 2008

Research

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Our research monitors key health indicators, behaviours and attitudes, informs and evaluates programmes and initiatives, and identifies emerging health trends. This helps build an evidence base for promoting health and wellbeing.

Skin cancer prevention

Publication

We lead, deliver and support a range of health promotion programmes and initiatives in Aotearoa. Learn more about our work.

Alcohol

We provide information, advice, research and resources to help prevent and reduce alcohol-related harm and inspire New Zealanders to make better decisions about drinking alcohol.

Campaigns

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Communicating information directly to New Zealanders is key to our work. To achieve this we design and deliver a wide range of marketing and communications initiatives.

Campaign

Start to screen - Give your cervix some screen time

20 Feb 2020

The cervix is tucked away, out of sight, out of mind. It’s easy to ignore and forget. But we want to change that.

Immunisation

Campaign

School immunisations

12 Feb 2019

The school-based immunisation programme provides free ‘Boostrix’ and ‘HPV’ immunisations for children in Year 7 and Year 8 to protect them against several serious diseases such as tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough and most cancers caused by HPV.

Campaign

Get Hep C Tested

11 Feb 2019

‘Get Hep C tested’ is a campaign encouraging people who don’t know they have hepatitis C to get tested. Campaign went live 25 February 2019. Around 50,000 New Zealanders have hepatitis C (hep C). But many don’t know they have it as the symptoms are subtle, like tiredness.

Are you looking to order HPA resources?

On order.hpa.org.nz you can find and order HPA’s resources, including a range of pamphlets, booklets, posters and other resources, on the topics covered in our programme areas.

If you are unable to find the resource you are looking for or you’re looking for a resource on another health topic, please also look at the HealthEd website. This is an online catalogue of more than 500 health resources covering 44 topic areas.

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