HPA - Health Promotion Agency

of NZers agreed that smoking in cars should be banned when children under 18-years-old are present (up from 93% in 2016)

67%

of NZers were involved in at least one gambling activity in the past 12 months (down from 70%in 2016)

171,000

NZers were current vaping products users in 2018 (up from 66,000 in 2016)

69%

of NZers felt that it was important to them to maintain a strong connection to their culture (up from 59% in 2016)

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.

Tobacco control

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

Oral health - Baby teeth matter

22 May 2019

The 'Baby teeth matter' campaign encourages parents to protect their children’s teeth by ensuring their teeth are brushed twice a day with fluoride toothpaste.

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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