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National Prevention Service Cuts - A Body-Blow To Health
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 2:01 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
"It’s just one body blow after another for the dedicated professionals who have worked tirelessly to keep our population safe and healthy," Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) co-chair Professor Boyd Swinburn said. More >>
Smokefree 2025 Plan - A Recipe For Failure
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 11:47 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
"To reach Smokefree 2025 for all New Zealanders we need to provide all the tools, like a reduction in retailers, denicotinisation and effective quit smoking support," Professor Chris Bullen said. More >>
Urgent Action Needed To Address Aotearoa’s Shameful Household Food Insecurity
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 5:41 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The annual NZ Health Survey data for 2023-2024 showed that the proportion of children from homes where food ran out sometimes or often had increased by nearly six percentage points in just one year, from 21.3 per cent to 27 per cent. More >>
Lunches Contract Goes To Companies With Poor Track Record On Food Quality And Service
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 3:40 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
British-based multinational Compass Group, the lead supplier for the new model, lost one third of their school contracts in the current programme due to poor quality in food and service. More >>
Luxon Must Stand Costello Down And Reverse Tobacco Tax Cut Decision
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 1:42 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The Prime Minister cannot have confidence in a health minister implementing so many anti-health measures - he needs to stand down Associate Minister Costello and reverse the HTP decision immediately," Health Coalition Aotearoa Co-Chair Professor Boyd ... More >>
Auckland Alcohol Policy An Important Step In Battle For Safer, Healthier Communities
Friday, 13 September 2024, 10:26 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) congratulates all those involved in Auckland Council’s long battle against the might of the alcohol lobby and supermarkets for the right to determine its own rules about where and when alcohol can be sold. More >>
NZ First Need To Come Clean On Lobbying By Philip Morris
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 5:27 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The leaked PMNZ document is further proof of the urgent need for an overhaul of New Zealand’s policy making processes to provide transparency about the influence of commercial entities over public health policy. More >>
Growing Perceptions Of Corruption In New Zealand’s Political System Need Urgent Action
Sunday, 18 August 2024, 2:40 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Having balanced public policy-making systems with strong transparency and accountability are fundamental for our democracy. The Government’s lack of progress in making urgent changes needed to bring balance and transparency to public policy making is ... More >>
Government's Smokefree Plan Will Accelerate Youth Nicotine Addiction And Boost Tobacco Industry Profits
Thursday, 18 July 2024, 7:37 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) strongly condemns these measures and calls on the Government to think about the destructive consequences for youth and the generations to come. More >>
The Low Or No-cost Health Prevention Initiatives The Government Ignored In This Budget
Friday, 31 May 2024, 1:09 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa is calling on the government to listen to the experts and acknowledge the impacts that can be made to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders, with very little cost required. More >>
Health Coalition Aotearoa Calls On The Government To Take Action To Address Issues In The Food System
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 4:25 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The detailed and comprehensive Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) Balancing Our Food System report released by the Ministry of Health today identifies several issues that Health Coalition Aotearoa food and nutrition experts have been calling ... More >>
Lunches Downgrade Robs Children Of Nutrition, Well-being, Immunity And Fuel To Learn
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 2:40 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
HCA is pleased the programme will continue for primary schools and there are plans for food provision to a small number of pre-schools, but this should not come at the expense of healthy lunches for thousands of intermediate and high school students. More >>
Poor Uptake Makes Mockery Of Health Star Ratings System
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 3:39 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The failed voluntary Health Star Rating system must urgently be made mandatory to ensure New Zealanders can make easy, healthy choices at the supermarket. In New Zealand, diet and excess body weight are responsible for 18% of premature death and disability. More >>
Time For Associate Minister Of Education To Reveal His School Lunches Magic Trick
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 1:15 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
It’s time for him to explain how he will do this, what the consequences will be and what evidence he has that these changes will achieve the same results. More >>
Minister Using Outdated Information To Justify Cutting School Lunches
Saturday, 6 April 2024, 12:34 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The Associate Education Minister David Seymour is quoting a highly negative Treasury report on the Healthy School Lunches Programme to justify cuts, despite new evaluations that paint a much more positive picture. More >>
70,000 Sign Petition To Keep School Lunches
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 4:45 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Contrary to the Associate Minister of Education’s claims, analysis of Healthy School Lunches Programme - Ka Ora, Ka Ako assessments has revealed it provides excellent value for the taxpayer dollar, as a groundswell of public opposition to Government ... More >>
Government Measures To ‘crackdown’ On Youth Vaping Do Not Go Far Enough Says Health Coalition Aotearoa
Friday, 22 March 2024, 9:54 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
While the Government’s announcement to cease the sale of disposable vapes and increase penalties for non-compliant retailers is seen as a start to addressing youth vaping issues, members from the Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) Smokefree Expert ... More >>
A Third Of Household Beverage Budget Spent On Sugary Drinks - Study
Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 1:22 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
A New Zealand study of beverage purchases shows consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks remains high, accounting for one third of the average household drinks budget, prompting renewed calls for a sugary drinks tax. "The findings of this study are a stark ... More >>
Health Coalition Launches Petition To Protect School Lunches
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 5:48 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa has today launched a petition calling on the Government to protect free school lunches - Ka Ora, Ka Ako, and not make cuts to the programme. The programme offers 230,000 students in about 1,000 of the least advantaged schools’ ... More >>
New Zealand’s Hungry Teens Four Years Behind In Their Learning - Free School Lunches Provide Solution
Monday, 4 March 2024, 10:15 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Food poverty has contributed to New Zealand’s poor performance in an international educational achievement test for 15-year-olds, reigniting calls for broader access to free healthy school lunches. "The 2022 PISA (Program for International Student ... More >>
