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National Safe Sleep Day - An Opportunity To Refocus Efforts To Reduce Sudden Unexpected Death In Infancy
Friday, 2 December 2022, 11:54 am | Hapai Te Hauora
Today is National Safe Sleep Day - Te Rā Mokopuna. It is a time to raise awareness of the impact of SUDI on whānau in Aotearoa, and to advocate for best practice prevention activities. The SUDI Prevention Coordination Service at Hāpai Te Hauora tracks national ... More >>
Health Select Committee Releases Report On Smokefree Bill - Good News For Equity
Friday, 2 December 2022, 11:23 am | Hapai Te Hauora
Hāpai Te Hauora are pleased to see the recommendations in the Health Select Committee report on the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill released this week. Selah Hart, Chief Executive Officer of Hāpai Te Hauora, ... More >>
Good News On Youth Smoking Rates Must Not Dim Focus On Helping Young Wahine Māori
Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 7:18 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
While welcoming the findings in the latest ASH Year 10 survey that overall youth smoking rates in Aotearoa New Zealand have remained at a record low, Hāpai Te Hauora CEO Selah Hart says the same survey also reveals the need to address the persistently ... More >>
Hāpai Te Hauora Welcomes Long Overdue Review Into Pokies
Friday, 18 November 2022, 10:27 am | Hapai Te Hauora
The Minister of Internal Affairs Jan Tinetti launched a review into pokies today. There will be a focus on increased penalties for venues which are non-compliant with the rules legislated in the Gambling Act 2003, and strengthening of host responsibility ... More >>
Smoking Numbers Down In National Health Survey
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 12:52 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
The Annual NZ Health Survey has released results for 2022 which provides valuable information about the health and wellbeing of whānau living in Aotearoa. The 2021/22 results are based on data collected between September 2021 and August 2022. The New ... More >>
Hāpai Te Hauora Backs The Launch Of A Fresh Youth Vaping Campaign ‘Protect Your Breath’.
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 10:27 am | Hapai Te Hauora
Today is the launch of ‘Protect your Breath’, the start of a three year youth vaping campaign that aims to breathe new understanding and energy into kōrero about vaping - by placing rangatahi at the heart of the mahi, every step of the way. Facilitated ... More >>
Liquor Law Changes Can’t Come Soon Enough
Monday, 31 October 2022, 12:58 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
Public health agency Hāpai Te Hauora is welcoming the government’s plans to make it harder for alcohol companies and supermarkets to stop local communities from deciding the rules governing the sale of liquor in their area. Hāpai Te Hauora Chief Executive ... More >>
New Research Highlights The Harm That Tamariki Are Exposed To Through The Marketing Of Gambling, Alcohol And Junk Food
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 3:48 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
New research from the University of Otago, released today, has shown the level of harm our tamariki are exposed to through outdoor marketing of gambling, alcohol and junk food. The study, which followed 122 12-year-olds wearing body cameras for four ... More >>
Hāpai Te Hauora Present "Whare O Whitiora" For Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 6:54 am | Hapai Te Hauora
Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) is here (26th November - 2nd October) and Hapai Te Hauora is excited to present this year’s rendition of Whitiora - ‘Whare o Whitiora’. ‘Whare o Whitiora’ will continue to act as a guide for whānau in ... More >>
Ka Hao Te Rangatahi Campaign Launches To Recognise Gamble Harm Awareness Week
Wednesday, 7 September 2022, 3:43 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
This year, Gambling Harm Awareness (GHAW) is observed from 5 - 11 September. GHAW provides opportunities for reflection, promotion, and raising awareness around gambling harm, gambling addiction and the wider impacts of gambling on whānau and hapori. ... More >>
Hāpai Te Hauora’s SUDI Prevention Coordination Service Reiterates The Need For Every New Māmā To Be Given Wahakura.
Tuesday, 28 June 2022, 2:50 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
The National SUDI Prevention Coordination Service (NSPCS) is dismayed to once again see a Coroner’s ruling that the death of an infant was preventable had the whānau been given a pēpi-pod or wahakura at birth. We strongly implore the Ministry of ... More >>
Taking The Right Action To Smokefree 2025
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 4:14 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
National Māori Public Health organisation Hāpai Te Hauora applaud Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall and the team behind the legislative work taken to get the Smokefree Bill introduced today. Hāpai Te Hauora CEO Selah Hart says, today marks another important ... More >>
Tala Pasifika Is Backing Pasifika Communities To Win The Race To Be Smokefree By 2025
Monday, 30 May 2022, 7:28 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
World Smokefree Day is a timely reminder that as a nation we need to paddle together with urgency if we want our Pasifika communities to be Smokefree by 2025. Tala Pasifika Director - Lealailepule Edward Cowley says "Any and every opportunity for our ... More >>
Protect Pēpī By Curbing Woeful Pregnancy Suicide Rates
Sunday, 1 May 2022, 5:48 am | Hapai Te Hauora
"The appalling suicide statistics for wāhine Māori during the perinatal period (the period from conception until the first birthday) reveal the desperate need for maternal mental health to be a priority to save lives", Hāpai Te Hauora chief ... More >>
World Smokefree May - We're Backing You!
Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 5:01 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
Hāpai Te Hauora are proud to declare that this year Aotearoa will celebrate ‘ World Smokefree May’ , as part of a national campaign for Aotearoa to be Smokefree by 2025. ‘World Smokefree May’ will lead up to the celebration of ‘World Smokefree ... More >>
One Step Closer To Addressing Generations Of Harm From Alcohol
Friday, 25 March 2022, 6:53 am | Hapai Te Hauora
24 March 2022 Hāpai Te Hauora, the largest Maori Public Health agency in Aotearoa, commends the work that today brought unanimous support by Auckland Council to Councillor Josephine Bartley's motion to support MP Chloe Swarbricks Private Member's Bill: ... More >>
Inequitable Burden Of COVID-19 Changed Māori Drinking, Smoking, And Gambling Habits During Lockdown
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 7:01 am | Hapai Te Hauora
08 March National Māori Public Health Agency, Hāpai Te Hauora are concerned with multiple findings in the ‘ Impact of Covid-19 August 2021 ’ survey released by Te Hiringa Hauora and NielsenIQ today. It canvassed the participants’ use of alcohol, ... More >>
Fewer Teenage Smokers Is Good News, But More Work Needs To Be Done
Monday, 28 February 2022, 9:26 am | Hapai Te Hauora
The number of teenagers smoking cigarettes has dropped significantly, but reaching a Smokefree Aotearoa needs more hard work and community involvement says the head of Māori Public Health agency and sole Ministry of Health funded tobacco control ... More >>
Keeping All Babies Safe While Sleeping Imperative For This Years’ Safe Sleep Day
Thursday, 2 December 2021, 2:05 pm | Hapai Te Hauora
Te Rā Mokopuna: National Safe Sleep Day Aotearoa is being held on Friday 3rd December 2021 across the motu proudly coordinated by the National SUDI Prevention Coordination Service at Hāpai Te Hauora. The aim of Te Rā Mokopuna is to raise awareness about ... More >>
Banning Smoking In Cars Will Help Take Tobacco Out Of Daily Life
Friday, 26 November 2021, 7:14 am | Hapai Te Hauora
Making it illegal to smoke or vape around children in cars is one more step towards taking tobacco out of daily life, says a leading public health agency. From 28 November 2021, it will be an offence to smoke or vape in a motor vehicle carrying anyone under ... More >>
