Publications

This newsletter highlights the research work from the Health Promotion directorate of the National Public Health Service in Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand. 

This report and educational resource is about community voice in bottle store licence decisions and alcohol’s effects on neighbourhood spaces.

This top line summary provides a high-level overview of results from the 2020 Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS). The HLS monitors short, medium, and long-term societal changes in attitudes, knowledge, and behaviours related to mental health and wellbeing, tobacco use, vaping, gambling, nutrition, alcohol, and sun exposure. The HLS also tracks changes in views about the social desirability and acceptability of various strategies to minimise harm from these risk factors and promote wellbeing. This summary focuses on the prevalence of these risk factors, exposure to harm, and strategies to minimise harm.

Te Hiringa Hauora's Research Framework is designed to guide and enable shared understanding of what best practice health promotion research in Aotearoa New Zealand is and what it seeks to achieve.

This report is the third in a series of reports about the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on New Zealanders’ habits and behaviours. Based on survey results, it examines changes in alcohol drinking, smoking, vaping and gambling behaviours during the August/September 2021 lockdown.