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HCA To Present Petition To Double Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches To Camilla Belich MP
Monday, 26 June 2023, 10:25 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
HCA will present its petition to double Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches to Camilla Belich MP at Parliament forecourt, 1pm Thursday 29 June. Students from Ngāti Toa School in Porirua will join HCA Co-Chair, Dr Lisa Te Morenga, in presenting the ... More >>
HCA Welcomes First Moves On Alcohol, Says Te Tiriti, Marketing Next Steps
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 2:44 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) welcomes the Government acting on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) as well as the Justice Select Committee’s report on the Community Participation Bill addressing the oversupply of alcohol in under-resourced ... More >>
HCA Welcomes Vape Regulations, But More Needed
Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 6:15 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa welcomes the announcement from the government to crack down on disposable vapes, nvape shops near schools or marae, and restricting descriptions of product flavours. It's crucial that our communities aren't saturated with unnecessary ... More >>
World Smokefree Day - HCA Says Stronger Support For By-Māori For-Māori Approach Essential To Reach Smokefree 2025 Goal
Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 2:04 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
World Smokefree Day is an international day where we join the rest of the world to raise awareness about our efforts to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco in our communities. Tākiri Mai te Ata Stop Smoking Service Regional Manager and HCA Smokefree ... More >>
Budget 2023: Some Positives Health, But No Commitment To Addressing The Structural Drivers Of Health
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 5:58 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa Co-Chair Dr. Lisa Te Morenga says that while there were some positives for health in the Budget, it didn’t address the cost-of-living crisis or our major health inequities. "It’s good to see free prescriptions as well ... More >>
Health Experts Call For Budget Investment In Healthy School Lunches, Public Health System Outside Of Covid
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 2:10 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Public health and community leaders are calling for a Government Budget tomorrow that invests in the long-term determinants of health for whānau and saves money in the long-term by preventing disease. Health Coalition Aotearoa Public Health Infrastructure ... More >>
Health Coalition Aotearoa Calls For A Full Review Of Alcohol Law To Protect Communities
Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 8:59 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) is calling on Government to commit to a full review of alcohol law to ensure communities are protected from ongoing corporate interference in alcohol policy making. This comes following the failure of Woolworths and Foodstuffs’ ... More >>
Health Coalition Aotearoa Urges Stronger Vaping Legislation To Protect Young People
Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 8:42 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa shares widely reported concerns from health and educational leaders about skyrocketing rates of vaping among school children and youth. New Zealand’s youth vaping rates are much higher than Australia’s, where the sale of vapes containing ... More >>
Latest Growing Up In NZ Study Data Shows Urgent Need To Expand Ka Ora Ka Ako - Healthy School Lunches
Monday, 1 May 2023, 11:17 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health experts and community leaders are aligned with whānau and public opinion to expand Ka Ora Ka Ako - Healthy School Lunches in the latest release of Growing Up in New Zealand data. HCA Food Policy Expert Panel member and dietitian Mafi Funaki-Tahifote ... More >>
HCA Research Shows 63% Of People Support Doubling Ka Ora Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches
Wednesday, 5 April 2023, 2:29 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
HCA is launching a petition to extend free healthy lunches to more tamariki to support whānau in need Whānau, principals and Māori health leaders are calling for free healthy lunches to be extended to more schools as Health Coalition Aotearoa releases ... More >>
Regulation Of Lobbyists Must Put Public Health Before Commercial Interests
Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 5:39 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
With RNZ revelations today of harmful industries lobbying policymakers and Ministers via commercial firms, health groups are launching a series of urgent recommendations to regulate lobbying in Aotearoa . Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) Board Co-Chair ... More >>
Health Experts Call For Law Changes To Put In Place No Vape Shop Zones In Children's Areas
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 11:40 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
A vape store has recently opened in Kopeopeo in Whakatāne, 350m from Whakatāne High School and just under 300m from primary school, St Joseph’s Catholic School. Māori Women’s Welfare League Waiariki Area Representative Fiona Wiremu is astonished. ... More >>
Health Coalition Aotearoa Deeply Frustrated Over PM’s Icing Alcohol Advertising Regulations
Monday, 13 March 2023, 7:55 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa is deeply frustrated by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ decision to delay work on regulating alcohol advertising until next year. Experts in the field have been pushing for years for measures to control the virtually unrestricted ... More >>
New Smokefree Law Will Protect Our Mokopuna
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 7:34 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The next generation won’t suffer the harms of tobacco-use, health experts say following the passing of a new smokefree law. Decades of hard-fought advocacy from health and community organisations has led to today’s milestone - the Smokefree ... More >>
Health Experts Welcome Government's Alcohol Reform Announcements
Monday, 31 October 2022, 6:15 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa congratulates the Government on taking urgent action to allow Councils to pass local alcohol policies responsive to the needs of their local populations. Local Action Policies were introduced in the 2012 alcohol legislation, ... More >>
How Long Does It Take A Ministry To Make A Healthy School Lunch?
Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 2:22 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health experts are perplexed by the Government’s announcement in the Ministry of Education Schools Bulletin yesterday [1] of no immediate changes on food and drinks provided by schools, after an eight-week consultation in April this year showed strong ... More >>
Petition To Make All New Zealand Schools And Kura Kaupapa Sugary Drink Free Presented To Parliament
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 2:01 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
A petition calling for all schools in New Zealand sugary drink free and create a healthy food environment in schools will be presented to Parliament on June 22 at 1pm. The petition comes in response to proposed Government changes to the promotion ... More >>
High Priced Healthy Food Demands Supermarket Duopoly Dumped
Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 4:54 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
New Zealand is caught in a tailspin of rising food prices until the supermarket duopoly is broken up to stop excessive profits dictating who can afford healthy food Health Coalition Aotearoa says. The statement comes after Statistics NZ released ... More >>
Why Only Wai? Let's Give Schools Healthy Food Alongside Drinks
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 6:20 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The Government’s proposal for all primary schools to be sugary beverage free is seen as a baby step by health experts, with Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) nutritionists saying the proposal needs to apply to all schools, and include healthy food. Minister ... More >>
Government Must Act In Response To Heart-breaking, Compelling Evidence On FASD
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 1:03 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Statement on behalf of Roopuu Apaarangi Waipiro Alcohol harm reduction experts are calling on the Government to urgently act on recommendations from nine witnesses who have detailed the multiple, serious and systemic failures by successive Governments ... More >>
