Te Hiringa Hauora/Health Promotion Agency

of Māori adults reported that it was at least somewhat important for them to be involved in, or part of, Māori culture (up from 73% in 2016).

87%

of NZers prepared their main meal at home 5+ days a week (down from 90% in 2012).

32%

of young people reported feeling isolated to some degree over the last four weeks, compared to 18% of the older age groups in 2016.

22%

of NZers have tried vaping (continuing the upwards trend from 13% in 2014).

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.

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

Be a Doer! Karawhiua!

7 May 2021

“Be a doer! Karawhiua” is led by Te Puni Kōkiri (Ministry for Māori Development), co-delivered by Te Hiringa Hauora (Health Promotion Agency) and supported by the Ministry of Health and the Unite Against COVID-19 teams. Karawhiua means “Give it heaps! Go for it!”

Tobacco control

Campaign

Drive Smokefree for Tamariki

21 Apr 2021

Drive Smokefree For Tamariki delivers an empowering message to promote smokefree cars. Meeting smokers in the moment of getting into the car, Drive Smokefree for Tamariki acknowledges it can be tough but it can be done, and the rewards are worth it for healthy tamariki.

Mental health

Campaign

Small Steps

9 Apr 2021

Te Hiringa Hauora | Health Promotion Agency has a new website, Small Steps, featuring locally developed digital wellbeing tools. It is funded by the Ministry of Health and developed in partnership with social enterprise Clearhead.

Are you looking to order Te Hiringa Hauora resources?

On order.hpa.org.nz you can find and order Te Hiringa Hauora 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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