Health Promotion

Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.  It is concerned with improving the circumstances in which people live, learn, work and play.   Health is  holistic, eg. wairua, tinana, hinengaro, and whanau and is a resource for everyday life.

Health promotion involves a variety of approaches, according to the need of and effectiveness for the priority group. Health promotion approaches generally can be categorised into building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills and reorienting health services.

Health Promotion Unit Services include:

• Health Resources Unit  
• Alcohol and other Drugs
• Oral Health Promotion  
• Sexual Health Promotion  
• Health Promoting Schools
• Smokefree / Auahi kore
• Public Health Nutrition & Physical Activity Advisor

Contact

Healthy Lifestyles Team Ph: 09 430 4100