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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 >>
Splitting Up Grocery Players Important For Kids’ Health
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 9:32 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health policy experts and nutritionists are disappointed this morning by the rollback of expected recommendations from Commerce Commissions report on the grocery market this morning to split up the two big industry players. "What many people don’t ... More >>
Women's Rugby Sidestep Of Alcohol Sponsors To Be Celebrated
Friday, 25 February 2022, 2:59 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Women’s Rugby is leading a culture change for New Zealand by side-stepping alcohol branding in favour of sponsors that send a healthy message. The Blues, Hurricanes and Matatu franchises have committed to refusing alcohol branding sponsorships and ... More >>
Health Experts Back Powerful Cancer Prevention Report
Friday, 4 February 2022, 6:31 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Public health experts and providers are putting their collective weight behind the recommendations of the Cancer Prevention Report released by Te Aho o Te Kahu, the Cancer Control Agency. Health Coalition Aotearoa Chair (HCA), Professor Boyd Swinburn, ... More >>
Rising Food Demands Rising Incomes For Food Equity
Friday, 21 January 2022, 4:16 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The highest grocery price rises in a decade reinforces a new report’s call for increased household revenue through government intervention to allow all families fair access to healthy food. The How healthy are Aotearoa New Zealand’s food environments ... More >>
Health Experts Welcome Game-changing Plan To Stamp Out Tobacco Harm
Thursday, 9 December 2021, 10:21 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Smokefree experts from Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) are heartened the Government has listened to the evidence and the calls of hundreds of health, academic and community organisations and individuals, to roll out the Smokefree Action Plan at parliament ... More >>
Giant Letter Of Support Given To Minister Ahead Of Smokefree 2025 Action Plan
Thursday, 18 November 2021, 12:57 pm | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall received a giant open letter of support from more than 110 health and community organisations and 650 individuals at parliament today in support for her Smokefree 2025 Action Plan . Health Coalition Aotearoa created ... More >>
All DHBs Sign Open Letter In Support Of Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan
Monday, 8 November 2021, 9:16 am | Health Coalition Aotearoa
The health sector has rallied behind the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan with 100 academic, health sector and community organisations signing an open letter urging the Government to implement the plan in full. Every DHB in the country has now signed ... More >>
